Ever since Erling Haaland came to noticeable quality at Borussia Dortmund in January 2020, Barcelona have continuously been touted as a top choice to sign the energizing youthful striker.
Whether it be as an assistant to the evergreen Lionel Messi or, as destiny would have it, as a successor to Barca’s most favored child, Haaland’s title has apparently never cleared out the back pages of Spain’s greatest daily papers.
Nearby an clear intrigued from Genuine Madrid, the seen shrewdness has continuously been that Haaland is essentially biding his time some time recently he offered farewell to the Bundesliga and made his way to Spain.
Such has been the freny over the youthful Norway universal that in early Walk, Spanish daily paper Wear detailed that Barca supervisor Xavi had actually made the trip to Munich to visit and conversation with Haaland as he was recuperating from an damage.
As such, theory around the player summed to an overall presumption that a deal was in put which Barca had won the race to sign the youthful player.
Be that as it may, agreeing to the club’s president Joan Laporta, that couldn’t be advance from the truth.
What did Laporta say?
In a later meet with TV3 on Sunday, Laporta was constrained to bring Barca fans back down to reality when inquired around the plausibility of the club making a move for Haaland this summer.
As a few may have helpfully overlooked, the Catalan mammoths are still within the middle of a monetary emergency and in spite of fetched-cutting measures that have seen Messi, Philippe Coutinho and Antoine Griezmann take off the club in one frame or another, Laporta underlined why Haaland was still out of reach for the club.
"We're working on long-standing time of the squad. Both [chief of football] Mateu Alemany and [advisor] Jordi Cruyff are too searching for a certain rationality," said the Barca boss.
"We are here to oversee a football club well. We are in a period that, in spite of the fact that we are making strides financially, it has not however been unraveled.
"The financial circumstance has not been turned around which is the need.
"It is evident that we need an progressively effective group. We'll go all out, but we are going to not do any operation that puts the institution at chance."