At 22, Erling Haaland is one of the best strikers in the world. But MCFC's new leading man thinks he may not reach the peak of his powers for another 10 years. BBCSport | alanshearer ➡️
for a British record fee when I was nearly 22. Maybe I was in a bubble and protected from that expectation, but I also remember that I relished it. Bring it on, I thought then. Weird.
Still, though, you have to find some way of decompressing. “Normally I train and then I go home and watch football,” he says. “My father plays a lot of golf. I haven’t played in a while but I will start now, for sure. It’s mostly about relaxing, about turning the head off when you can, to rest and get ready for what’s next.”
We always talk about goalkeepers being a different breed, their positional isolation on the pitch, using their hands, their sense of loneliness when they concede a goal. More than any other outfield player, I believe there’s a touch of that for a striker, too, in that you have to be so single-minded. Greedy, sometimes. Ultimately, you have one task.
And then, before you know it, you’re an old fart on the sofa yelling at the television that things were better in your day.Alfie’s career was ended by injury, but Erling has dredged the positives from that; live it all and live it now, which is precisely how he plays. And he already has that umbilical connection to the Premier League, to Leeds, where he was born and where Alf-Inge played and to City, where the family moved in 2000.
Those parental conversations ground you and normalise you. They prick the pressure. But this is in Erling’s blood now, just as it was Alfie’s, his life stretching to this point from the cradle.
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