Take the wealthiest club in the world, add the best striker on the planet, and what do you get? An unstoppable force.
Or so the Premier League collectively feels right now, as Erling Haaland blitzes through English football like a kid in a candy store, plucking records on his rampage like they were sweets from a jar. He has three hat tricks already, has failed to score only once in his 12 matches for the Blues, and is on course to rewrite the manual on the art of scoring with 20 goals so far, barely a fifth of the way through the campaign.
Only Bournemouth have kept him quiet…though City still scored four that day, and there’s the issue, according to Jurgen Klopp. He can try to smother the Norwegian, use Virgil van Dijk to shackle him, but that only creates problems elsewhere.
