It’s always boiling on Deadline Day. The biggest clubs have a player cabal that has to come together before the transfer window closes, the negotiations are as always rock hard, where the parties push each other all the way in. This summer, the window closed at 8 p.m. For Danish Sporting player Conrad Harder, it was a particularly nerve-wracking Deadline Day. 15 seconds separated the transfer to RB Leipzig from going down the drain.
“It was hectic and not fun at the end. It was about me being 15 seconds away from something going wrong, but someone held my hand in the end. It was crazy! I think there were some negotiations that had to be done, and then some papers had to be submitted. It was a system error, which took a few extra minutes,” Harder begins to Viaplay Sport News.
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The Danish U21 striker explains that the papers were submitted the first time at 19.51, when it did not work, and the second time was at 19.57.
“When there were 15 seconds left, the office erupted in cheers, and then I could breathe a sigh of relief,” says Harder, relieved and satisfied.
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The transfer fee ended at 24 million euros.
