Erling Haaland is ready.
Ready to learn from Pep Guardiola, ready to become the most marked man in the Premier League, and ready to add his 'little bit of extra fire' to one of the biggest rivalries in modern football. He is also on time for this interview — his first major sit-down since joining Manchester City in the most high-profile transfer of the summer window — and jokingly puts that down to having spent the last three years in Germany as he bounds onto the training pitch.
Haaland exudes the confidence of a 21-year-old that has scored 135 goals in 196 appearances to become the most in-demand striker in world football, but he is already focused on proving that his latest career decision will be as spectacularly successful as his previous ones have. Forget finding a house or planning birthday celebrations, he is more interested in a good pre-season that will set him up to hit the ground running in English football.
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