According to the Daily Mail, Tottenham Hotspur made their first enquiries into a deal for Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland in February.
It’s claimed that Spurs started looking into striker signings when they learned in February that Harry Kane wanted to leave.
One of the names on the list was Haaland, as Spurs rather ambitious pursued a deal for the Norwegian goal machine.
However, Tottenham backed away when they learned that Haaland was demanding huge wages of around £350,000-a-week.
That’s almost twice as much as Tottenham are paying Kane, and when you add in the fee required to sign Haaland, it was just completely beyond Tottenham.
Haaland would have been quite the signing for Spurs. The 20-year-old scored 29 goals in just 27 games at Red Bull Salzburg, and has continued to shine at Dortmund.
With 55 goals in 57 games for Dortmund, Haaland has become one of the top young strikers in Europe, and looks set to break goalscoring record over the course of his career.
Thierry Henry has branded Haaland ‘lethal’, and the praise has been rolling in over the last 18 months as Haaland destroyed all put in front of him.
Daniel Levy almost certainly won’t pay that kind of money to Haaland, and it’s no great surprise that Tottenham backed away.
Yet if Kane ends up on the move, Levy needs to come up with something special. If it’s not Haaland, it needs to be somebody else.
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