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In an interview with ESPN, external this week, Haaland said City’s disappointing season after a run of four consecutive league titles was due to a loss of “hunger” in the squad.
“You can find excuses, injuries, many injuries at bad times, but in the end we haven’t been performing well enough,” Haaland said.
“We haven’t had fully the hunger inside us. I haven’t been good enough. I haven’t helped
Kevin de Bruyne, Manchester City, £9.5m – Southampton (a)
De Bruyne has had two double digit hauls in the past four weeks.
He’s started the past five games, so worries about his fitness should not be an issue and the Belgian only has three league games left in his City career.
If he’s going out with a bang, this game against one of the worst teams in Premier League history
Erling Haaland scored on his return to action as Manchester City held on for victory against Tottenham Hotspur to improve their hopes of a top-four finish.
City started strongly and went ahead in the 12th minute when Haaland met Jeremy Doku’s low cross with a first-time side-footed finish into the bottom corner, having been left unmarked.
Savinho should have doubled City’s lead when the lively Doku found him unmarked at
Haaland’s new deal at City is an “expensive” but “smart” decision from the club, according to football finance expert Kieran Maguire.
Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah are all out of contract at the end of the season and could leave the club for free, but City were keen to avoid such a situation unfolding with Haaland.
“He [Haaland] is halfway through his original five-year contract and
Haaland scored a goal every 79 minutes in his first season as City won the Treble – the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup – in 2022-23.
That rate decelerated to one every 98 minutes last season and stands at one every 118 this campaign, with City enduring a difficult spell of just one win in 13 games between 30 October and 26 December.
Despite those declining numbers, Shearer
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has signed a new long-term deal with the club that will keep him at the Etihad until 2034.
The Norwegian joined City from Dortmund in 2022 and has scored 111 goals in 126 games for the club since.
The striker’s previous deal, which reportedly included a release clause, had been due to expire in 2027.
Haaland’s new deal would see the striker remain with City
Pep Guardiola celebrated 500 games in charge of Manchester City with a nervy win over Leicester.
Savinho and Erling Haaland gave the floundering defending champions just a second win in their last 10 Premier League games.
It was still not enough to lift them back into the top four, instead leaving them fifth and 11 points behind leaders Liverpool before the Reds’ trip to West Ham later on Sunday.
Guardiola
Erling Haaland had a second-half penalty saved by Jordan Pickford as Manchester City’s crisis continued with a laboured Premier League draw against Everton at Etihad Stadium.
Pep Guardiola’s side, once all-conquering, are in unfamiliar territory amid a staggering fall-off, with just one win now in their past 13 games in all competitions.
The result leaves the champions sixth in the table, three points adrift of Nottingham Forest in fourth and
Mohamed Salah (captain), Liverpool, £13.5m – home to Leicester City
No words needed – perma-captain until told otherwise.
Kevin de Bruyne, Manchester City, £9.5m – home to Everton
I think everyone is expecting City, at some point in this awful run of defeats, to snap out of it, find form and absolutely thrash somebody.
Well why not this week?
De Bruyne is a high-risk, high-upside pick in a game that
Given City’s lengthy injury list, manager Pep Guardiola will be delighted with a victory that means his side can see how Arsenal go on against Liverpool from a position of authority, and to have suffered no more problems.
Haaland, though, will wonder how on earth he only came away with a single goal, which takes his tally to 14 in all competitions this season.
A ripped shirt was the legacy