The Premier League’s latest big signing is a 6ft 4in “Viking” who broke a long jump world record when he was just five years old.
Erling Braut Haaland – a Norwegian who was born in Leeds – is just 21 but has talent so big that Manchester City have agreed to buy him for £51million and pay him £385,000 a week. Some of his millions of social media followers in Germany nicknamed him The Terminator because of his goalscoring feats. And despite the healthy diet expected of footballers, he admits that he loves kebabs and pizza.
Young Erling leapt 1.63m in January 2006 to claim his place in history for the longest standing long jump. Now, he leaves the opposition standing.
