Pep Guardiola hasn’t said anything about reports that Manchester City is close to making a massive deal for Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland. This week, Haaland’s agents agreed to personal terms with City. The city is said to be ready to pay Haaland’s Dortmund contract’s 63 million-pound ($81 million) release clause. That’s what it was told about Haaland’s deal with City. He would get paid 500,000 pounds a week.
When he turns 21, he’s one of the best players in the world. Real Madrid has also been very interested in him.
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Asked about a possible move for Haaland, City manager Pep Guardiola would not comment on the rumors when he spoke to the media on Tuesday.
“No, I don’t have an answer for you,” he said before Wednesday’s match with Brighton in the Premier League.
“I have other things on my mind right now, and I don’t want to think about what this club will do next year.”
Sergio Aguero, the club’s all-time top scorer, left last year. The city hasn’t had a good striker this season because of that.
It was a big mistake for City to try to sign Harry Kane from Tottenham last year. Haaland would be the kind of finisher City is looking for now.
Besides, Manchester City was in the middle of a fight to keep the Premier League title and win their first Champions League title. Guardiola wanted to keep his eye on the present rather than future deals.
What will happen in the future? We don’t know for sure yet. I haven’t talked about transfer windows for years, even though we have a lot of great things to do this season. Guardiola said that.
In the Premier League, City is one point ahead of Liverpool. If Liverpool doesn’t lose to Manchester United on Tuesday, the Reds can temporarily go top for a short time.
On Saturday, that dream was over when they lost 3-2 in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley to Liverpool.
Before that match, Guardiola had made seven changes to the team because his players were still hurting from the Champions League match against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday.
Not at all. Guardiola said: “No. I didn’t think about it.” I know what my fans think. Their opinions are important to me, but I made my choice for many different reasons.
In this case, Kevin (De Bruyne), Kyle (Walker), and Ilkay Gundogan didn’t show up on time.” It was clear that the people who played were ready.
De Bruyne and Gundogan are back in the running for the Brighton game, but Walker is still out because of an ankle injury.
“Tomorrow, he isn’t going to be around.” As for how he reacts to his ankle, “We’ll have to see.”
