Erling Haaland believes he has joined the fitting membership to fulfil his ambitions after Manchester Metropolis formally confirmed the striker’s arrival on Monday.
Metropolis introduced on Could 10 that an settlement was in place to signal Haaland from Borussia Dortmund after triggering his reported €75million (£64.2m) launch clause.
The Norway worldwide has now formally put pen to paper on a five-year contract on the Etihad Stadium, with that deal to undergo on July 1.
Haaland had been certainly one of Europe’s most sought-after gamers and follows within the footsteps of his father Alf-Inge, who performed for Metropolis between 2000 and 2003.
He scored 86 objectives in 89 video games for Dortmund upon becoming a member of from Salzburg in January 2020, averaging a objective each 84 minutes throughout all competitions.
Certainly, solely Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski (123 objectives in 108 video games) boasts a greater scoring price over that interval amongst gamers from Europe’s prime 5 leagues.
And after making the swap to the Premier League champions, Haaland is hopeful that his objectives will result in trophies underneath the administration of Pep Guardiola.
“This can be a proud day for me and my household,” he advised Metropolis’s official web site. “I’ve at all times watched Metropolis and have beloved doing so in current seasons.
“You possibly can’t assist however admire their fashion of play, it’s thrilling and so they create loads of possibilities, which is ideal for a participant like me.
“There are such a lot of world-class gamers on this squad and Pep is likely one of the best managers of all time, so I imagine I’m in the fitting place to fulfil my ambitions.
“I wish to rating objectives, win trophies and enhance as a footballer and I’m assured I can do this right here. This can be a nice transfer for me and I can’t wait to get began in pre-season.”
Haaland gained two Austrian Bundesliga titles throughout his time with Salzburg and the DFB-Pokal in 2020-21 throughout his two-and-a-half seasons at Dortmund.
The prolific striker struggled with accidents within the 2021-22 season, but he nonetheless managed 29 objectives in 30 video games in all competitions for BVB, together with a strike in his remaining recreation.
Twenty-one of these objectives had been scored through his favoured left foot, three got here through his proper and the opposite 5 had been headers.
