Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed he told Manchester United to buy Erling Haaland for 4 million in 2018, but the club Solskjaer said he told Man Utd about Haaland about six months before coming to lead United in December 2018. The two worked together at Molde and Solskjaer was well aware of Haaland’s enormous potential, but the striker instead joined The Red Bull Salzburg team and then joined Borussia Dortmund before transferring to Manchester City for 51.2 million pounds last year.

As reported by The Sun, Solskjaer said, “I called United about six months before I entered Positions and told them that I got this striker we had, but they didn’t listen . I asked for 4 million pounds for Haaland , but they Solskjaer did not sign him . After being appointed first interim coach, Solskjaer next Korg became general manager of United on a permanent base before he left in November 2021. During his time at Molde Haaland scored 20 goals in 50 games with all of those appearances under the leaderboard of Solskjaer. He joined the club from Bryne in 2017.

Haaland enchanted a great debut season in English football and scored 5 goals 1 goal in 47 games in all matches. When he joined City, Solskjaer sent a message to Holding Haaland. Haaland told The Manchester Evening News, “When I signed with City, he congratulated I wrote to me, “Good luck to go to the wrong way of Manchester.” We say some time. As you knew, he had a big influence on my career when I was at Molde. He was a good man. The Norwegian nation became the annual soccer player of the Soccer Writers Association, receiving 82 percent of the votes of support.