“He wants to try the biggest leagues”- Erling Haaland’s father on why he chose to play in Premier League


“He wants to try the biggest leagues”- Erling Haaland’s father on why he chose to play in Premier League

Erling Haaland with his father

The former Norwegian National football player Alfie Haaland has given out the reasons of why he thinks his son and current Manchester City player Erling Haaland chose to play the English Premier League and is not looking for a league or team swap.

Alfie Haaland said, “I think Erling wants to test himself in every league. And then you can only stay in every league 3-4 years. But maybe it doesn’t turn out like that, but I think he wants to try the biggest leagues.”. Alfie Haaland emphasizes on the fact how English Premier League is and how a player can prolifer in this league.


Erling haaland was given offer from the Spanish team Real Madrid. The English Premier League is definitely a league with huge fan following and class. It has more acceptance than any other leagues. The reason to his rejection towards Real Madrid may also have this perspective of reason.

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English Premier League is a game more of tactics and strategy. The other leagues mostly concentrate on pace. Being able to flourish in the tactical side as a player makes him more prone to techniques and experiences. It molds a player the right way and now Erling had got a way to be a part of the league through Manchester City.

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Erling Haaland this season

Being new to a team and league we have mostly seen that players take time to adapt. But here we saw a man who rewrote history with his amazing spell from the very beginning of him games in the English Premier League with Manchester City. Out of the first 6 games he has played this season, he scored 10 goals and 1 assist.

The goals he scored also created record being the earliest player to score highest number of goals. Out of the 10 goals 6 of them were scored through consecutive hat-tricks against Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest. This has also happened for the first time in the history. Fans await for more such records to be broken.

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