Manchester City played without a classic striker throughout the 2021/22 season. Pep Guardiola keeps changing those ‘fake no.9’ players in front, rotates Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden and some others at that spot, but he is quite aware that needs a run-of-the-mill forward brought in soon.We have already written that the Citizens are close to signing one of the three most talented players of today, Erling Haaland. And a few days after information came that City will have to pay big commissions to Mino Raiola and Haaland’s father Alf-Inge – in addition to 82 million USD in compensation, which would increase the entire transfer to over 131 million USD – the British Daily Mail brought a new piece of the equation to the public.Sun 18:00: (10.0) Southampton (5.90) Man.City (1.32)Reportedly, the Etihad giant is ready to label Haaland as the highest-paid footballer in the Premier League during the upcoming transfer window and give him around 660.000 USD a week – which means 31.3 million USD over a course of a year. For the sake of comparison, if he decides to choose (the sky blue part of) Manchester as his new home, he will surpass the current leaders of the Premier League, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kevin De Bruyne, who earn around 26.3 million USD per season.The Citizens decide to give 15 billion Ksh for HaalandAlthough Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid are also seriously interested in signing the Norwegian, City believe that they could finalize the whole job in the next month. However, those speculations were all oral and not formal, because Haaland is not in the last six months of his contract – his current one with Borussia Dortmund expires in the summer of 2024. Few believe that there is a scenario in which the 21-year-old goal machine will stay at Signal Iduna Park.Wed 20:30: (4.00) Mainz (3.60) Dortmund (2.00)It is clear that City would get a real howitzer that the club hasn’t had since Sergio Aguero left, although in the last two seasons at the club the Argentine has not been at the level that has skyrocketed him since arriving from Atletico Madrid back in 2011. Haaland has unprecedented statistics in the Dortmund shirt – he scored 80 goals in 80 appearances and provided 21 assists for his teammates.
