Four years of hair, gone in one sitting
The bun is dead. Erling Haaland put a photo of the new cut on X on Sunday morning, three words of caption underneath it: “New season, new trim.”
City’s number nine had kept it long and tied back since he arrived in Manchester, and before that at Dortmund. What he has now is barely a centimetre off the scalp, closer to the kid who scored a hat-trick on debut at Molde than to the man who has spent four years terrorising Premier League back fours.
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Maresca’s first August, and a striker who does not do slow starts
There is more than a haircut that is different this year. Enzo Maresca took the Etihad job in the summer after Pep Guardiola left, and Haaland is learning a new set of instructions off a manager who wants his forward dropping into pockets more often than he used to.
He does not arrive short of confidence. Seven goals at the World Cup with Norway was the best tournament of his international career, and his August record in England reads like a player who treats the opening weeks as a personal statistic farm.
Bournemouth come to the Etihad on Sunday, matchweek two. Whether a lighter head helps him get on the end of anything is another matter.
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