Manchester City, presented the new signings, all crazy for Haaland

From our correspondent Davide Chinellato

10th of July
– LONDON

Just a smile and Erling Haaland takes the City. The tens of thousands of Citizens fans who flock to the outside of the City of Manchester to welcome the new signings, on a sunny Sunday afternoon, are practically all for him, this 21-year-old goal machine grown, thanks to dad Alfie, with the Pep Guardiola’s team in the heart. “I can’t wait to start – he says on stage in front of his new fans, many already in possession of his new number 9 -. I’m sure we’ll have fun together. And when I have fun I score goals. And the team wins, that’s it. really that easy. ”

Haaland

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The new City center forward, the one for which Guardiola will have to change his set-up, looks like a child at the amusement park in front of his new fans. Because he was one of them. “My first idol was obviously my father, but at home I am full of Sergio Aguero shirts” he says to the delight of the fans. He sings with them the choirs with which they welcome him, he often stops to let everything enter into him, that the joy of finally being a City player makes this first day as a club center forward even more special. “I hope that the preparatory phase will pass quickly to be able to play the games that matter immediately, because the first time with City will be special, more than it was to face this team as an opponent – he says -. My father played here, and he is always special to do something that even your father has managed to do “. Haaland was born in England, he says he already feels at home in Manchester and is ready for the challenge. “City are an incredible team, we have to improve what has already been done, improving just enough – says the 22-year-old -. I have to work even harder than I have done up to this point.”

The others

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Haaland was the big draw, but not the only new sign City has fed their fans. Absent due to illness Kalvin Phillips, the first to go on stage was Stefan Ortega Moreno: “My idols are Iker Casillas and Oliver Kahn, also for this reason they are a mix of German and Spanish goalkeeper – said the 29-year-old who arrives at City from ‘Arminia Bielefield – I am a modern goalkeeper, I like to take some risks but I am also making great saves. I want to improve, learn every day and help my teammates. ” Then the City fans welcomed Julian Alvarez, the Argentine who left the scene with his only words in English in the 10 ‘he remained on the pitch: “C’mon City, Manchester is blue” he said to the delight of the fans. , who greeted him praising Sergio Aguero. “Obviously I spoke to him – said the 22-year-old that City had taken over from River Plate in January, leaving him to mature in Buenos Aires – and I want to continue the history of the Argentines in this team. I knew for a long time that I would come here and I didn’t see I want to adapt, grow as a player and as a person and help the team as I can to continue doing what it is used to: winning. “