Bundesliga
Haaland’s staying on may eventually pay off financially for Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund will probably keep Erling Haaland in the end and will automatically lose about 75 million euros, but they can still make a profit. The condition is to go as far as possible in the Champions League.
Borussia Dortmund will probably keep Erling Haaland in the end and will automatically lose about 75 million euros, but they can still make a profit. The condition is to go as far as possible in the Champions League.
When Chelsea failed with a €130 million bid for Erling Haaland, they turned their interest to Romelu Lukaku, who is currently owned by Inter Milan. Milan didn’t think twice about the offer due to the financial crisis. So it looks like Dortmund will keep Haaland at least this summer.
From next summer, the clause in Haaland’s contract will be activated, which will amount to 75 million euros. That’s a little more than half the amount Dortmund could have sold their gem for this summer.
Even if Dortmund don’t sell Haaland this year, they may end up extracting more than if they had sold him this summer. With the high rewards in the Champions League, Dortmund should be good enough to reach the semifinals.
The team will automatically collect over 15 and a half million euros for their participation in the group stage. In the group stage, the team can earn up to 16.8 million (2.8 million for a win and 930,000 for a draw).
If a team were to progress to the semi-finals, this would mean an additional almost €33 million. If we add the TV rights share in case of promotion to the top 16, the special bonus Coefficient rating or the proceeds from the sale of Haaland jerseys, even reaching the quarter-finals could be enough, if there are plenty of points in the group.
That’s what happened last season with Haaland. The Yellow and Black fell out with Manchester City, losing twice by identical 1:2 scores. Before that, however, Dortmund had been in the top eight for quite a long time, failing to beat Monaco in the 2016/17 season.
The last time Dortmund managed to reach the semi-finals of the millionaire’s competition was in the 2012/2013 season. Back then, Dortmund slipped past Real Madrid to reach the final, where they lost 1:2 to Bayern Munich.
Source: BET ARENA
