Imagine being offered the chance to sign Erling Haaland for £5m This would have been the biggest bargain in football history, what could have been 🤯
£5 million was the asking price but Everton felt it was too steep to pay. The Merseysiders weren't even signing him for the first-team, instead feeling as though he would slot into the Under 23's.
In 2018 I was at a meeting at Finch Farm with EFC we watched a video of an 18 year old Norwegian Kid played for Molde, wow😱he was scoring for fun,Bill Kenwright shouted what do think Joe? sign him I shouted back,Robert Elstone said & I will never forget “they want £7 million”😠Joe Anderson, former Mayor of Liverpool and an Everton fan, also weighed in by revealing that he watched a video of Haaland on a visit to the Finch Farm training ground.
He claims that Bill Kenwright asked him for his opinion and though he gave his seal of approval, then chief executive Robert Elstone did not want to pay over the odds. United, Haaland's latest victims, also passed on him back in the day. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, manager at the time, worked with him and Molde andHaaland was a man in demand after banging the goals in for Red Bull Salzburg but Solskjaer is said to have come away from the meeting with the feeling that an agreement to sign him for €20 million was close.
Much to his frustration, Ed Woodward, United's executive-vice-chairman refused to do the deal due to the agent fees and the insistence of a release clause in the contract.United's loss was Borussia Dortmund's gain and Haaland went on to score 82 goals in 85 appearances.
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