{"id":1120442,"date":"2022-06-13T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/13\/manchester-city-confirm-signing-of-erling-haaland\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:21:54","slug":"manchester-city-confirm-signing-of-erling-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/13\/manchester-city-confirm-signing-of-erling-haaland\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City confirm signing of Erling Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erling Haaland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchester City have announced the signing of Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund in a deal worth \u00a351m.<\/p>\n<p>City have paid the 21-year-old\u2019s release clause and expect to pay \u00a385.5m in total when agent fees, signing bonus and other costs are taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>The Norway international has signed a five-year deal with the Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a proud day for me and my family,\u201d Haaland told mancity.com after completing his move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always watched City and have loved doing so in recent seasons. You can\u2019t help but admire their style of play, it\u2019s exciting and they create a lot of chances, which is perfect for a player like me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many world-class players in this squad and Pep is one of the greatest managers of all-time, so I believe I am in the right place to fulfil my ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to score goals, win trophies and improve as a footballer and I am confident I can do that here. This is a great move for me and I can\u2019t wait to get started in pre-season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haaland scored 86 goals in 89 matches for Dortmund since joining from RB Salzburg in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Sky Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Erling Haaland Manchester City have announced the signing of Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund in a deal worth \u00a351m. City have paid the 21-year-old\u2019s release clause and expect to pay \u00a385.5m in total when agent fees, signing bonus and other costs are taken into account. The Norway international has signed a five-year deal with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1761,3927,8367,9717,1762,3290],"class_list":["post-1120442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-city","tag-confirm","tag-erling","tag-haaland","tag-manchester","tag-signing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}