Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has come out to refute reports that Erling Haaland could be dropped to try to address his team’s slump. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he would be sticking his main man up front regardless of whatever anyone says, and while he can still decide to play with a false 9 in certain games, Haaland will not be benched.

Pep added that the team will have to adapt to Erling’s football, not the other way round
His words, “To have an Erling, I have to adapt. No, no, I didn’t think about that. Always I play false nines for the quality – specifically the players [we play against] in that moment. In some games, for example, playing against man-to-man, against teams man-to-man: I love to play a false 9. But to have an Erling, I have to adapt.”
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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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