“I had Haaland in Molde, for two seasons. The summer before I got (to Man United), I rang the club and said: ‘You’ve got to sign this boy. He’ll be top class.”

“That was June, July 2018, and they said no. They had enough reports on players. Then I became the caretaker manager, and we’d sold Haaland to RB Salzburg.” “I tell the club straight away to buy him while he has a release clause. We knew that then, and no one else would’ve paid the money – €20m, it would’ve been a bargain.” “It was the club’s decision to not go for it then. We never made bids or went in for him, until after he started scoring for Salzburg.” “By then, everyone was there. His release clause then was still good – €60m.” Via The Overlap