FOOTBALL: Erling Haaland to become the first-ever €1 billion player and his agent explains why Man City star is so expensive

Erling Haa­land will become the first-ever €1 bil­lion play­er, his agent Rafaela Pimen­ta says.

Man­ches­ter City spent just €58m on the strik­er’s move this summer.

But when agent fees, bonus­es and wages are added, the total trans­fer fee could be more than €344m.

The Nor­we­gian scored 20 goals in 14 appear­ances for City, adding to his value.

Real Madrid are still inter­est­ed in Haa­land and when asked how much he thought Haa­land would cost, Pimen­to told Sky Sport Italia: “One billion.”

“Because if you add his foot­ball val­ue, image val­ue, and spon­sor­ship val­ue, it’s def­i­nite­ly a billion.

When it comes to “com­pare”, it’s nor­mal to com­pare Erling (Haa­land) and (Kylian) Mbappe, just to give you an idea of ​​the market.

“I think Erling will be the first play­er to achieve a trans­fer of around 1 billion.”

Ney­mar’s €230 mil­lion move from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Ger­main in 2017 remains the high­est ever trans­fer fee for a player.

But that record could be threat­ened if team-mate Mbappe seeks a move to Real Madrid.

Haa­land and Mbappe are set to become world num­ber one heirs to Lionel Mes­si and Cris­tiano Ronaldo.

How­ev­er, unlike Haa­land, Mbappe is unhap­py with his cur­rent club and is said to be open for a €200 mil­lion move, with Liv­er­pool and City show­ing interest.

But the French­man is report­ed­ly con­sid­er­ing can­cel­ing his con­tract with PSG, which could cost him his chances of becom­ing the first bil­lion-euro star.

As for Haa­land, few teams can pay the pack­age to keep him out of the Eti­had, and a €1bn move won’t hap­pen any­time soon.