Hardly any player made as much headlines as the BVB jewel Erling Haaland. Another Bundesliga club was already on the Norwegian in 2016 - the deal broke due to 3000 euros.
- The 19-year-old Erling Haaland is considered the greatest striker in Europe.
- Before his multi-million dollar changes, a club from the Bundesliga was his turn in 2016 .
- The transfer broke during the negotiations and burst due to 3000 euros .
BVB guided Erling Haaland from Salzburg to the German Bundesliga for 20 million euros, where he has met seven times in four games. Now it became known that a second Bundesliga club was interested in the Norwegian - TSG 1899 Hoffenheim .
Broken Haaland change: Difference in salary expectations made the difference
As Sport Bild reports, the Kraichgauer were already interested in the then 15-year-old striker in 2016, who at that time already attracted attention in the second Norwegian league. Haaland played for the U16 team of TSG for a week and convinced both in team training and in the individual units. Hoffenheim officials offered the then 15-year-old a change on his 16th birthday, as the UEFA statutes do not provide for international transfers under the age of 16. So everything looked like a successful deal for TSG Hoffenheim.
The development of # BVB scorer Erling #Haaland will be followed with mixed feelings at 1899 #Hoffenheim. The Kraichgauer rejected the Norwegian in 2016: https://t.co/nUIL3zYKGI (Photo: imago) pic.twitter.com/3bjhvGbiI6
- Ruhr Nachrichten BVB (@RNBVB) February 13, 2020However, the negotiations came to a standstill in the details of the contract - more precisely, in the salary expectations of the teenager. According to the Sport Bild report, the Norwegian asked for 5,000 euros a month, which was probably a bit too much for the Bundesliga team. The Hoffenheim management team did not want to pay more than 2,000 euros because the association maintains a fixed salary structure in its academy and did not want to break it up. So the deal broke because of 3000 euros a month and Haaland moved within Norway for 100,000 euros to Molde FK, where he became a first division player.
Broken Haaland change: Hoffenheim proud today - "Only those who have recognized his skills"
Only two years later, the then 18-year-old moved to Salzburg for 8 million euros and shortly afterwards was the most hunted striker in Europe. After the magical appearances of the now 19-year-old shooting star at BVB, it is of course bitter afterwards how a club could not sign this talent because of a relatively small amount of money.
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Even if the striker could not be persuaded to transfer at the time, the pride of the scouting department now seems to prevail among the Hoffenheim team. Alfred Schreuder, who worked as assistant coach under Julian Nagelsmann at the time, sees it as a "compliment that Haaland even came to us for a trial training at that time. We were the only Bundesliga team that recognized his skills. “At 15, you couldn't know how a player would develop, according to the Bundesliga * coach. That is why Haaland did not want to be involved in the academy at any cost.
In addition to the Hoffenheimers, the Bavarians, who had the Norwegian on the slip of paper a long time ago, had to be annoyed. Recently contract details made headlines in BVB striker Erling Haaland's working paper.
* tz.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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