La Liga reaction to Erling Haaland shows Man City are changing transfer landscape

It's now once week since the worst kept secret in world football was finally revealed.

Erling Haaland's move to the Etihad was inevitable once official confirmation emerged that Manchester City had reached an agreement with Borussia Dortmund for the forward. The decision to coincide the announcement of his arrival with the anniversary of his father joining the Blues made the switch all the more sweet for City supporters.

However, the subsequent meltdown over in Spain was the cherry on top of the cake for City fans. On Wednesday, La Liga president Javier Tebas accused Man City and PSG of 'continuously breaching the current regulations of financial fair play.'

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A dig at two clubs who have rubbed Real Madrid and Barcelona up the wrong way this transfer window, if ever there was one. While City attracted Haaland, Kylian Mbappe snubbed Los Blancos in favour of staying with PSG.

One day later Real Madrid president Florentino Perez — who was still licking his wounds from losing out on two generational talents of their eras — claimed that Haaland would only make their bench. A bizarre comment even by Perez's standards.

Admittedly, Karim Benzema was at his terrifyingly brilliant best last season but the Frenchman is now 34, and a red-hot Haaland would surely pip him to a starting place in 2022/23. Perez's comments screamed of sour grapes and of a realisation that the pecking order has changed in European football.

To round-off a somewhat spectacular week, Spanish media outlet AS used their front page to claim that Madrid are already plotting to bring the Norwegian to the Bernabeu in 2024. They even went as far as to insist