Haaland: "With Guardiola we have to do everything one hundred percent"

MADRID, 6 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The new Manchester City player Erling Haaland highlighted the importance that his new coach, Pep Guardiola, gives to any exercise and underlined the Spanish coach's demands as one of the keys to signing with the current English champion, a club where he did not deny feeling the pressure.

"I think I'm ready," Haaland said when asked about his Premier League debut, which will take place this Sunday against West Ham. "I will develop very well in this team, that's why I'm here and I think I can improve in everything", acknowledged the Norwegian striker in statements to 'The Athletic'.

"I miss opportunities with my left foot all the time, I did it last weekend. If we talk about finishing, I have to improve my left foot, my right foot, my header. There are so many things. That's the good thing about football, you can always improve. No matter how old you are, you can reach your full potential. Maybe I can reach my full potential in 10 years," said 22-year-old Haaland.

"I'm still young. I'm still going to develop and I have to develop in the right way (...) As a striker, I think it's very important that when you're in the game you don't think too much," he added about his way of executing chances. to try to turn them into a goal.

"If I'm going to my next game thinking about the chance I missed last time, it's not good. You have to go into the game hungry. It doesn't matter what happened before, if you scored three goals, if you scored zero goals, if it makes time you don't score." You have to go in with the same mentality. And then I think about not thinking too much!" he hinted.

In this sense, the international striker pointed out that "it's about using all this as motivation and not as something negative. Do you want to be the best in today's training? This is also something that helps me a lot, this meditation off the field of game to just let go of negative thoughts," he said.

Also, Haaland assumes that mentality gives him an advantage. "Yes, I think today you have to be mentally strong with so many other things off the pitch. You have to have extremely good focus, you have to be strong in your head because it's not easy being a footballer. Everybody thinks it's easy." commented.

About his coach Pep Guardiola had no doubts. "He is demanding in his messages about what to do and about doing everything 100 percent. It doesn't matter if it's a normal kind of running exercise, do it 100 percent, like you do on the court. Train while you play. As easy as that", aimed on the one of Santpedor.

"Pressure at City? Yes, of course there is pressure. I'm playing for the champions, the ones who won the Premier League, so there is pressure, but in my head, it's about trying to go out on the pitch smiling as much as possible. and try to enjoy the game," he added.