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Guardiola delighted with happy Haaland
Manchester Evening News
|April 10, 2023
CITY BOSS COMPARES STRIKER TO RONALDO AND MESSI AS HE PRAISES BLUES STAR'S ATTITUDE
PEP Guardiola praised Erling Haaland's behaviour off the pitch as he brought him into a conversation about Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Comments that the City manager made in a broadcast interview after their 4-1 win over Southampton comparing his striker to the two modern greats prompted a further discussion in his press conference.
There, he made clear that Haaland had only done for a season what the duo had managed over two decades, but has seen enough from the 22-year-old to think that he can at least attempt to take their mantle.
This story is from the April 10, 2023 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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