Guardiola compares 'ridiculous' Haaland to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

Pep Guardiola spoke about Erling Haaland's importance to Manchester City after his hat-trick against Ipswich

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00:00He did it in Salzburg, he did it in Germany.

00:04The numbers are ridiculous.

00:07Ridiculous.

00:08He can compete in terms of goals with Cristiano Messi.

00:12The numbers are unbelievable.

00:14His age, short age, the amount of goals.

00:17It's an incredible threat for us and we are really, really happy to have him.

00:21Hopefully he can be here for many, many years.

00:24So it will be good for us.

00:27Really good for us.

00:28And this season for no Euros and relaxed and arrived really well.

00:33We talked a little bit in the States.

00:36I didn't like some things and he changed his mind.

00:44And I think, of course, he cannot play all the games until the end of the season.

00:51But you know how important it is.

00:53The numbers, scoring goals and goals is unbelievable.