Everton missed 2016 chance to sign Erling Haaland for £60,000
Seamus Coleman is one of the best signings Everton have ever made but they could have got one of the world’s best players for the same price.
Back in 2016, the then-Toffees scout in Scandinavia, Bryan King, saw a 15-year-old Norwegian strutting his stuff for Bryne and recommended him to the club, but they rejected that offer.
That player was Erling Haaland who has just signed for Manchester City for £51million and is touted as the next great striker in world football.
The monsterous striker would have been available to purchase for just a £60,000 compensation fee, the same price they paid for the club captain from Ireland, and King revealed how the scenario went down.
“We could have had him for a compensation fee of £60,000,” King said in an interview with The Times. “But the consensus was he was so young and so big that once he got older and other players got bigger too, he’d lose his effectiveness.
“But, of course, that hasn’t happened. He’s just become even more powerful, even quicker and even better too.”
What if
Every single club in the world has a story similar to this and they are always wondering what if soon after the fact.
Haaland would have surely been a huge success at Goodison Park had he moved to Merseyside when he was still a teenager but at the same time, he would have also probably left for bigger and better things by now too.
You have to wonder why the Toffees didn’t take the gamble in 2016 when there was such a small amount of money on the line, in comparison to football these days, given that if things didn’t work out, they could have either sold him again or just released him with little problem.
Now though we have to endure him coming to Goodison Park, should we stay up first, and run rings around our defenders Michael Keane and Mason Holgate as Man City come and roll us over with ease as they do against the majority of teams in the country already, without a striker of his calibre.
In other Everton news, one transfer they can still do is that of this EFL club captain and he’s available for free too.