Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has come out to share why he thinks Erling Haaland was ready to sign a new ten-year contract deal with the club. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, the Norway striker only signed the lengthy contract because he has settled in perfectly at the club, and he wants to keep enjoying the EPL alongside his wife in England.
Pep added that Haaland has visualized that there is no better place that he could be right now in the next 10 years.
His words, “Next season, if I’m still here, I will do 10 years [at Man City]. So he has to beat me. He comes from Norway; I think maybe the weather here [in Manchester] is better!
And he settled perfectly, and I think what happened is because he loves the club, the people he is around, he loves the Premier League, he loves to be here with his wife and now he’s a father. So I think he visualised that there is no better place that he could be right now in the next 10 years. And that’s why he and his family decided to do this step. In 10 years, wow, you never know what is going to happen. It’s a long, long time, and always in a short career you have to say, ‘OK stay, see what happens’, and he proved what he wanted, and trusts the club.
If he continues with the numbers since he arrived, yeah [his records will never be beaten]. But it will depend on the team, him as well. It’s exceptional news for all of us, the club. When one player decides to sign this type of contract never done before it’s because he wants to show how desperately he wants to be here.
We have to create an environment where he is unstoppable, because there he is the best. He’s still so young, and I’m pretty sure he’ll mature by playing games, and games, and games, and it’s going to happen naturally. I don’t have the feeling that he’s a guy with a contract who says, ‘Now I have this I’m going to take a nap’. It’s not going to happen.
He loves to play, a huge competitor, but at the same time he as the ability to get away from good moments and bad moments immediately. His mindset is really good to forget what happened, and think about the next.”
WOW.
Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is known for his speed, strength, positioning, and finishing inside the box. Haaland holds the record for the most goals scored by a player in a single Premier League season, with 36.
Haaland was born on 21 July 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, as his father Alfie Haaland was playing for Leeds United in the Premier League at the time. In 2004, at the age of three, he moved to Bryne, his parents’ hometown in Norway.
Along with playing football from an early age, Haaland took part in various other sports as a child, including handball, golf, and track and field. He also reportedly achieved a world record in his age category for the standing long jump when he was five, with a recorded distance of 1.63 metres in 2006.
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