Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is forgetting one thing about Erling Haaland to Manchester United transfer claim

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Speaking on Gary Neville's Stick to Football podcast this week, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer claims he rang Manchester United and told them to sign a young striker called Erling Haaland for just €20m. United declined, according to Solskjaer, Haaland joined Borussia Dortmund and is now smashing records and winning Champions Leagues for Manchester City.

It's a tale of what could have been, an alternate reality where Haaland could have been scoring the 167 goals he has netted for Dortmund and City for United instead. There is just one problem - and Solskjaer knows it himself.

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Solskjaer trained Haaland at Molde, before he moved to RB Salzburg. That is when the Norwegian claims he told United to make a move before Dortmund did, but was told they had no interest.

Solskjaer said: "I had him (Haaland) in Molde, for two seasons. The summer before I got [appointed at 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 - €20 million, it would’ve been a bargain. Even with his links with Alfie and Manchester City and Leeds. 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, Borussia Dortmund were there, Juventus were