Couldn't able to store a output of awk command

I have been trying to print git clone progress on more minimalistic way for my project.

Aim

Instead of printing a whole git clone output on screen

remote: Enumerating objects: 1845678, done.        remote: Counting objects: 100% (503/503), done.        remote: Compressing objects: 100% (79/79), done.        Receiving objects:  28% (54112/1845678), 10.10 MiB | 2.00 MiB/s

I want to abstract the lengthy lines of git output and just want to output the realtime progress of clone in the given below format

Cloning [$percentage]

What I have got so far

git clone --progress https://somerepo 2>&1 |tee gitclone.file | tr \\r \\n | total="$(awk '/Receiving objects/{print $3}')" | echo "$total"

Note: Since git clone only returns to stderr stream, I have redirected it to stdout stream. Even with the redirection I faced few issues, so I used progress option on git command.

I wanted to store output on the file (for debugging script) without disturbing stdout stream, so I used tee command. Since git clone returns \r instead of \n, I have replaced it to capture the output in proper manner. For more info on this part you can take a look at this question and its answer Git produces output in realtime to a file but I'm unable to echo it out in realtime directly in a while loop

Then I pick a line which has the keyword Receiving objects and print/store third keyfield value of that line.

What is my problem

My command is working fine if I am not storing output of awk and just printing it on screen:

git clone --progress https://somerepo 2>&1 |tee gitclone.file | tr \\r \\n | awk '/Receiving objects/{print $3}'

But, I am unable to store the awk output in a shell variable and echo it back:

git clone --progress https://somerepo 2>&1 |tee gitclone.file | tr \\r \\n | total="$(awk '/Receiving objects/{print $3}')" | echo "$total"

So what could be a possible solution for this issue?