Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has already given the seal of approval for Manchester United to sign Erling Haaland.
Ralf Rangnick has reportedly made the Borussia Dortmund striker his number one target in the summer and is ready to give him the no.9 shirt with Anthony Martial's future up in the air.
Solskjaer knows Haaland better than most after working with the Norwegian at Molde.
The pair still keep in touch to this day and the former United boss is not the least bit surprised he has gone on to become one of the best players in the world.
"When you have had kids and players through as a coach, you follow them and I keep in touch with Erling,” Solskjaer said in February 2021 when was in charge of United.
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“It’s great to see him become the player he has become and [how] he works to improve all the time. He’s a Dortmund player – we just wish him well there and let’s see what life will bring later on.
“You know I can’t speak about Erling because he’s at Borussia Dortmund, and it’s disrespectful to talk too much about it, apart from that I know him and I speak to him. Who wasn’t interested in him a year ago? Everybody would say you would take the best players in the world and Erling is a top player.”
“We will do our best to become a better team and he will do his best to be a better player, but where will he end up? I do not want to say anything apart from wishing him all the best. The choice he makes is up to him.
“It is clear that Erling is going to have a fantastic career. I follow Erling. I have always said that. Was it 18 months we had together or something like that?
“We will see where he ends up. As a Norwegian and someone who has worked with him, it is of course great that he is doing so well.
"He will have a long, long, long career that is going to surpass most of what any Norwegian player has done.”
Haaland has also spoken highly of this compatriot in the past and revealed he helped him refine his finishing in front of goal.
He told ESPN: “Yeah, when I came to Molde as a 16-year-old boy, he taught me a lot of things from day one, as you said, he was my coach then and he taught me a lot of things.
“He was a striker, I’m a striker and he has won the Champions League and that’s also a dream for me, so he’s been teaching me a lot of finishing skills and small movements in the box and these kind of things.
“I forgot to tell you this, but before that game [against Viking in 2018), Solskjaer and I did some practice on finishing,” Haaland told Eurosport in April 2020. “Not just crosses. I remember he taught me some easy rules.
“The first one was on touch. That I don’t use too much power and try to destroy the goal or the goalie with the ball. I think that I was thinking about doing that and it was something new that he told me. I trained a bit on that, but without scoring. But at least I had it in my head after that training session.
“That was something he taught me in the days before that game and he has taught me a lot to be calm, and also be on your toes and come to those situations where the ball is coming.
“It is then you have the chance to score. He deserves a lot of credit for teaching me that."
