What Guardiola said about Haaland's mega Man City contract

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola doesn't expect Erling Haaland to 'take a nap' after committing until 2034.

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00:00What was your reaction when he told you that Erling was going to sign for 10 years?

00:06I said, can you repeat? Have you seen a player extend 10 years contract?

00:15If you continue with the numbers since he arrived, yeah.

00:18It will depend on the team, it will depend on him as well.

00:22But it's exceptional news for all of us, for the club.

00:26When one player decides to sign this type of contract, never had done before,

00:31it's because he wants to show how desperate he wants to be here.

00:35Of course he's a special player.

00:37To find a player like Erling is so difficult.

00:40To find a striker in that level, once we have it, why don't we make the effort to keep him?

00:45The club knows perfectly how professional he is.

00:47His commitment in every single game and every single day to show his talent.

00:52And of course for him, because in 10 years, wow, you never know what's going to happen.

00:56It's a long, long time.

00:58The club and the team, myself as a manager, we have to create an environment,

01:02create a lot of moments that he can intervene in when he's unstoppable.

01:08Because there is the best.

01:10I think he's so young, still young, and I'm pretty sure he's mature,

01:13that playing games and games and games, it's going to happen naturally.

01:17I don't have the feeling that he's a guy with a contract to say,

01:20OK, now I have this, I'm going to take a nap.

01:23I don't think it's going to happen.

01:25I think he loves to play and he's a huge competitor.

01:29He came from Norway.

01:31I think maybe the weather here is better than when he was born.

01:35And he settled perfectly.

01:36I think what happened is that he loves the club, the people he's around.

01:40He loves the Premier League.

01:41He loves to be here with him, his wife, and now his father.

01:46I think he visualised that there is no better place that I could be right now

01:50in the next 10 years, I would say.

01:52You weren't tempted by 10 years extension yourself?

01:54Next season I will do, if they still are here, I will do 10 years.

01:58There has been a little bit of uncertainty.

02:00Do you think it's the kind of thing that people look at and think about?

02:02It helps, it helps for sure.

02:03He's making me a better manager, a better staff.

02:07That's for sure. He's helping.

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