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If Manchester United had listened to their former manager, Erling Haaland might have had a very different career.
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00:00Manchester United rejected Erling Haaland in 2019 for just 17 million pounds.
00:06Back in 2019 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wanted to reunite with his former Molder player
00:11and just before he started tearing it up at Salzburg Ole knew about his release clause
00:15and obviously worked with him for the last 18 months and he was dying to get him at Manchester
00:19United and in typical United fashion they simply just didn't move fast enough.
00:24They were concerned about release clauses, agent fees and Borussia Dortmund acted quickly.
00:29They paid the 17 million pounds, accepted the terms and signed him in January 2020.
00:34As we all know Haaland within weeks was tearing it up in Germany, hat-tricks,
00:38Champions League nights, that PSG moment and now within two years he's Manchester City's superstar.
00:44Rewriting history books in the process whilst Manchester United have spent another 70 million
00:48pounds on another striker, this time Benjamin Szczesko. Will it work out or will it be another
00:53classic United moment where they miss out on superstar talent so regularly and to be fair
00:58it's not always just missing out sometimes they've got talent they just waste. Is it proof
01:02that sometimes managers do know the players they want to bring into their football clubs?
01:06Let us know in the comments, we'll let you decide.
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