Ex-Inter Sporting Director Marco Branca has revealed that he was considering signing Manchester City’s Norwegian striker Erling Braut Haaland during his time with the Nerazzurri.
Branca was responding to comments made by former Inter President Massimo Moratti who stated that the former Inter Sporting Director would have signed the Norwegian international striker had he been with the Nerazzurri.
“I was talking to Moratti about Haaland when he was still at Salzburg. I did not have to insist.
“Yes, I would have brought him to [Inter],” the former Inter Sporting Director said in yesterday’s print edition of Genova based newspaper Il Secolo XIX.
Erling Braut Haaland joined Austrian Bundesliga side Red Bull Salzburg in January 2019 before moving to German Bundesliga outfit Borussia Dortmund some 12 months later in a deal reportedly worth around €20 million.
Marco Branca, who played for Inter as a striker between 1996 and 1998, joined the club’s management team in 2002 and was the club’s Sporting Director until February 2014 when he was fired by then owner and President Erick Thohir.
Branca was the mastermind behind Inter’s treble winning squad having sold Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the summer of 2009 in exchange for Samuel Etoó and a reported transfer fee of €46 million.
This transfer helped finance the signings of Brazilian defender Lucio from Bayern Munich, Diego Milito and Thiago Motta from Genoa as well as Wesley Sneijder from Real Madrid in a summer that has since gone down in Nerazzurri folklore.
