The Borussia Dortmund striker, who has scored 16 Bundesliga goals at a rate of just 75.31 minutes per goal this campaign, is linked with a close season for many of Europe’s biggest clubs.
Barcelona has been announced as a possible destination for the 21-year-old, but club president Joan Laporta recently suggested that such a transfer could be over the Catalan giants, saying he would not “make deals that endanger the institution”.
Former Blaugrana striker Laudrup, who scored 40 league goals during a five-year spell at Camp Nou between 1989 and 1994, has checked whether Haaland’s attributes match the patient passage favored by head coach Barca legend Xavi.
“I have doubts about him [Xavi] needs a striker like him, “Laudrup told Catalan radio station RAC1.
“I do not argue with Haaland as a goal scorer. He is incredible. He keeps going and scoring and it is no coincidence. The only thing is that he is a very physical player who needs a bit of space.
“He’s not the ideal player [for Barcelona], He does not participate with the ball in combinations in tight spaces. He has to play in a team that plays and then he gets balls.
“He will always score goals in every team, but I have doubts about how he plays compared to how he plays with Barça.”
Before their big Clasico clash with Real Madrid on Sunday, Barcelona have taken 34 points from 15 games in the LaLiga since Xavi took over as coach, a record that was only improved by Madrid, who took 39 points in that period.
Barcelona had disappeared in ninth place in the LaLiga when Xavi’s predecessor Ronald Koeman left, but Laudrup, who won the 1992 European Cup alongside Koeman as part of Johan Cruyff’s legendary Blaugrana side, says his former team-mate is not the same Support got the club their hierarchy as Xavi did.
“I did not speak to him [Koeman] recently, “Laudrup added.” But I also followed Barca in Ronald’s time and his moment was a difficult moment for Barcelona, due to the debt, the Messi goodbye.
“Ronald has come through difficult times for Barcelona in recent years, he has had a lot of problems.
“Now Xavi has come and things have improved, the simplest thing is to say that Xavi is doing much better. Xavi will be a great coach, and I say that not to defend Ronald, but in his [Koeman’s] Time, due to some circumstances, there were no chances of signing [new players].
“Elo mam Xavi am Januar, Ferran [Torres] ukomm, [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang and Adam [Traore]. You have to remember those chances that Xavi had, Ronald did not.
“Justice in football, sometimes [it] exists and sometimes [it] net. Ronald will have his faults, like all the others, but he does not have the cadre options that he now has with Xavi.
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