Manchester United have reportedly declined to speak to Mino Raiola over a transfer move for Erling Haaland.
Raiola is currently doing the rounds at some of Europe’s heavyweights as he looks for a new club for his prolific client in the summer, having made trips to Barcelona and Real Madrid last week.
He is reportedly set to switch his attentions to the Premier League next week, with Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea all believed to be in the running for Haaland’s services.
United, though, are not interested in meeting Raiola according to The Sun.
The club maintain a rocky relationship with the agent, who also represents United midfielder Paul Pogba.
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Speaking recently to The Athletic, Raiola said: “With Mr Ferguson or [Pep] Guardiola, I have this problem — and I think that it is changing now — that (they believe) we should submit to them because ‘otherwise, tomorrow, you don’t do a player with Manchester United ‘.
“I don’t give a f*ck if I never do another player with Manchester United. I’m not in their hands. I’m independent.
“We have only one party that we take care of: our players. And as long as our players like us, you do what you have to do.”
Solskjaer, who had Haaland his senior debut at Molde, has distanced United from a possible move.
“There’s only so many places that a player can go to and for us, we want to focus on the ones who are here,” he said.
“I’ve worked with Erling but it’s not right for me to talk about him.
“I can talk about him as an ex-coach of his but he will make his own mind up.
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“I think the way the world works at the moment, you’d like to do all your business on the quiet and all your talks on the quiet, but there are platforms everywhere, there’s news, the media make that more difficult now.
“Hopefully, we can suddenly sit here with players that no one has written about.
“We conduct our recruitment business, our scouting, and the players that we are interested in, we do it the right way I hope and feel.
“Who we’re interested in and who we can go for and who we will go for, I’m not going to comment on that.”
