Haaland takes the initiative

It was the local newspaper Ruhr Nachrichten, always well informed of Borussia news, which broke the news yesterday. Haaland was hunted down, along with his father and a friend of his, at the Dortmund airport. The three were reportedly returning from a three-day stay in Monaco. A transcendental visit in the forward’s future. The negotiations to know his final destination (or if he stays one more year in Dortmund) have been cut short by the sudden health problems of his representative, Mino Raiola.

The reason for the visit was precisely that, to propose a new action plan for the coming months, given the change in approach caused by Mino Raiola’s illness, about which no information has come to light. Only, yes, that it is serious enough that Operation Haaland has been frozen and that a meeting that had been planned between the player, his father, Raiola and Borussia Dortmund was postponed ‘sine die’, and which was scheduled for mid-January. Now it is Haaland himself who must mark the times, after this last interview with Raiola in Monaco.

That meeting with Borussia is not the only thing left pending due to Mino Raiola’s health problems, from which he is expected to recover as soon as possible. In addition, at this time Haaland does not have a personal sports sponsor. He ended with Nike on December 31 and is awaiting a decision. He has an offer on the table from Puma, also a Borussia sponsor, who pays him 8 million euros net per campaign. It is an attempt to keep him in the Bundesliga. But it is the German Adidas, in this case the main sponsor of Real Madrid, which seems to have the most advanced talks to sign Haaland for the next few years. In any case, both his future destination and the sponsor are important issues that have remained in the pipeline and on which the Haalands tried to shed light with this three-day visit to Monaco, beyond the logical concern for the agent, which is like a sports father for the striker.