{"id":7954,"date":"2022-05-10T15:41:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7954"},"modified":"2022-05-10T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:41:27","slug":"man-city-signs-dortmund-striker-erling-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7954","title":{"rendered":"Man City Signs Dortmund Striker Erling Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Manchester City said Tuesday they had reached an agreement to sign prolific striker Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cManchester City can confirm we have reached an agreement in principle with Borussia Dortmund for the transfer of striker Erling Haaland to the Club on 1st July 2022,\u201d the Premier League champions said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe transfer remains subject to the club finalising terms with the player.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The deal for the 21-year-old ends City\u2019s long search for a specialist centre-forward to replace record goalscorer Sergio Aguero, who left last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Haaland, whose father Alf-Inge played for City from 2000 to 2003, has been sensational since joining Dortmund from RB Salzburg in January 2020, scoring 85 goals in 88 appearances for the German side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City said Tuesday they had reached an agreement to sign prolific striker Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund. \u201cManchester City can confirm we have reached an agreement in principle with Borussia Dortmund for the transfer of striker Erling Haaland to the Club on 1st July 2022,\u201d the Premier League champions said in a statement. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4748,3456,1592],"class_list":["post-7954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-dortmund-striker","tag-erling-haaland","tag-man-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7956,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions\/7956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}