Erling Haaland has only been at Manchester City for eight months, but it seems his agent is already planning the striker's next transfer. Haaland's agent Rafaela Pimenta has regularly spoken about her client's career plan, and the striker himself has alluded to an ambition to play in other leagues throughout his career.
Now, Pimenta says she has even spoken to prospective clubs over a future transfer for Haaland, who is under contract at City until 2027 - as she does for all of her clients, regardless of whether they will leave their current clubs or not.
Speaking at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit, Pimenta said: “In my agency we try to make a plan. We have to make a plan. We need to have a goal. Maybe we won’t achieve it but if don’t know where we’re going for sure we don’t get there.
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“Maybe we don’t get there anyhow, but at least we tried. We make plans even if you’re 15 years old. Then we’re not passive about it. We cannot be sitting down and waiting, maybe they will call me because Haaland is so fantastic, waiting for the call.
“The day the market [transfer window] finishes is the day I start visiting clubs to talk about players, to see what may be in the future. We are in February, I have already been to rounds of clubs four times this year.
"There are so many different clubs, we can be studying, who’s going to retire, who’s getting old, who’s injured, who’s doing bad. Maybe this will happen there. It’s like a chess game and you try to anticipate the next move.”
Pimenta also opened up on Haaland's decision to pick City over other suitors in the summer, saying the family connection and the chance to work with Pep Guardiola were likely key factors.
She explained: “Erling went to City because - you’d have to ask him, but my opinion is that there’s such a history of this family with City. You see pictures of Erling as a baby in the City jersey. So I find it only natural that he would want to experience what his father experienced. And of course very much above that is the fact he wanted to be with Guardiola.”
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