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Journalist
Passionate about football since a young age, becoming a sports journalist quickly became obvious to Hugo. He would later discover a love for the NBA, before exploring other horizons such as Formula 1 and the NFL.
If he ended up leaving last summer to sign up with Real Madrid, it had been a while since Kylian Mbappé was announced to be leaving PSG. Before he joined Manchester City, the capital club had considered Erling Haaland to replace the Frenchman. In this sense, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi met his father several times in Qatar.
In the summer of 2022, Manchester City had taken advantage of his release clause estimated at €60 million to secure the services of Erling Haaland, then at Borussia Dortmund. The biggest European clubs were interested in the Norwegian international (39 caps) and the PSG was no exception.
-PSG wanted Haaland to replace Mbappé
According to The Parisianthe capital club seriously considered the possibility of recruiting Erling Haaland. We are then in 2020 and the rumors sending Kylian Mbappé au Real Madrid are already well present. THE PSG begins to prepare for the future without the French. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi et Leonardosports director at the time, then decided to position themselves on the Norwegian and informed his agent, Mino Raioladied in 2022.
Several meetings between Al-Khelaïfi and the Haaland clan
In December 2020, Erling Haaland is injured in a thigh and goes to be treated at the Aspetar clinic, in Dohawhere there are ten days remaining. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is there and takes the opportunity to contact his father, Alf-Inge Haaland. The president of PSG presented him with the project and the ambitions of the club and made him a proposal, but ultimately it was Manchester City who won the prize.
