A lad from Leeds who favours his left foot: 10 facts about new Man City signing Erling Haaland

Manchester City are on the verge of signing Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund.

A deal has been reached between City and Borussia Dortmund to take the much sought-after striker to the Etihad Stadium in a deal worth around £51milllion. The initial outlay is lower than the widely reported £51m release clause.

Haaland has a history with City as his dad, Alf-Inge, played for the club and his son has attended many games over the years. Here, the Manchester Evening News have had a look at some interesting stats about the club’s latest signing.

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Erling Haaland has scored 23 goals in 19 Champions League appearances. That’s more than Cristiano Ronaldo (none), Lionel Messi (eight), and Kylian Mbappe (12) managed after the same number of games.

Erling Haaland has scored 61 goals in 66 appearances in the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund. However, when you take playing time into account it works out at more than one a game for the Norwegian. Haaland has played a total of 5,298 minutes in Germany’s top flight. That means his league goals have come at the rate of one every 87 minutes that he’s been on the pitch.

Encouragingly for Manchester City fans, Haaland’s goalscoring record against English clubs is pretty good. So far he’s played four, scored four. Two of those appearances and goals were against City, and the other two were against Liverpool.

Haaland is, famously, the son of former City player Alf-Inge Haaland. When he joins, Erling Haaland will become the ninth Norwegian at Manchester City. Aside from his Dad, his predecessors are - Oscar Bobb, Omar Elabdellaoui, Age Hareide, Abdisalam Ibrahim, Kare Ingebrigtsen, Erik Johansen, and Egil Ostenstad.

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