LONDON: Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland is likely to reach an agreement to join Manchester City, according to Guillem Balague.
Haaland’s contract expires in 2024 but a release clause allows him to leave for 75m euros (£62.8m) this summer.
Balague believes City have sold the Norway forward, 21, the idea of joining now before moving on to Real Madrid.
“He will be at Manchester City, I feel,” said Balague, BBC Sport’s European football expert.
“There’s no agreement but they’re very close.”
“Haaland has known for a while what Real Madrid and Manchester City are offering, and others, but those are the two clubs that are left,” Balague said.
“Something has happened in the last couple of weeks, something called Benzema, that has turned the mind of Haaland into ‘you know what, I can go to Madrid in two or three years’.
