Erling Braut Haaland’s transfer to the English Premier League was some of the thrilling transfers in recent times. And, now with a profitable begin to the marketing campaign below his belt, we really feel the teenager from Norway is heading in the right direction to be the brand new Zlatan Ibrahimović.
Erling Haaland has been drawing the eye of soccer followers around the globe for a couple of years now, thanks in no small half to his unbelievable achievements throughout his three-season stint on the German membership, Borussia Dortmund. With 62 objectives from 67 appearances throughout his spell with the Bundesliga aspect, he’s a ferocious goalscorer.
And who else occurs to be fairly adept at scoring objectives? Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahmibović. The 40-year-old, who remains to be enjoying on the highest stage of the game and is presently signed to Italian Serie A aspect, AC Milan, has to this point recorded 405 league objectives from 635 appearances.
It’s not simply pure goalscoring capacity that the 2 share; each gamers are absolute giants on the pitch, standing a powerful 6 foot 5 inches tall and each are certifiably ripped. Whereas this is likely to be anticipated for the 22-year-old Haaland, nevertheless, it’s past spectacular how Zlatan retains himself in such nice form, contemplating he’s 40.
However, crucially, we really feel Haaland will turn out to be increasingly assured – and maybe just a little bit cocky – in an identical vein to Zlatan, who typically refers to himself within the third particular person (and has one way or the other developed a little bit of a Bruce Lee sort standing/persona).
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Why do we expect this? There are a few causes.
Firstly, Haaland not too long ago posted a picture of himself to his Instagram account, holding a menu with the caption “About to order the entire menu.” His Manchester Metropolis teammate, Kevin De Bruyne, commented, “you need me to carry the menu and help you?” referencing the function he performs for the membership.
Haaland responded by saying, “Sure, I’m dreaming of it each night time don’t know why.” To us, this means he is aware of what sort of formidable partnership he can create with De Bruyne, and he is aware of he’ll get the objectives if he’d fed the ball. Additionally: it simply exhibits he’s received a way of humour, and a little bit of the outdated Zlatan-esque wittiness that he’s not afraid to let present on social media and when speaking to the media.
Secondly, following Manchester Metropolis’s opening weekend win towards London membership West Ham United – which noticed Erling Haaland rating two objectives on his Premier League debut – the Norwegian striker swore twice throughout an interview with Sky Sports activities, following the sport.
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We are able to recognize he could have forgotten he was being filmed for reside TV, and sure, he did apologise, albeit by saying “oh sorry, s**t!” however to us, there was actually a Zlatan-inspired aura to how Haaland offered himself.
He is aware of he’s gifted and he has the statistics and aim tallies to again that up. If he’s to turn out to be “The following premier league legend,” as one person put it on Haaland’s most up-to-date Instagram publish, we wouldn’t be shocked if his perspective modified and he too started to consult with himself within the third particular person.
Solely time will inform.
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