Erling Haaland and Jack Grealish chat shows Man City can forge a new way of winning

As Manchester City's players walked into the dressing rooms at Lambeau Field following the storm-enforced interruption of their pre-season win against Bayern Munich, television cameras picked up on a revealing conversation between Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland.

Moments earlier Haaland had scored his first goal for the club just 12 minutes into his debut. His new teammate had played a key role; it was Grealish who slid the ball across the face of goal for the 22-year-old striker to prod home.

Following Haaland down the tunnel, Grealish pointed out that the move had played out exactly how they'd planned before the game.

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"Haaland! I told you!" Grealish shouted. "Exactly, these balls — that's what I like," the striker replied in thanks to the midfielder.

"Hey Kal," Grealish called to Kalvin Phillips, "I said to him [Haaland] just before the game 'I'll go down the line'..."

The rest of the conversation was out of earshot, but you get the gist of it. Grealish had told Haaland how he was going to set it up — and he followed through on his promise. Kevin de Bruyne set the move up by slipping Grealish in, but it was the Englishman who showed great intelligence in gliding past the defender and squaring to Haaland.

"We’re going to see a lot of this – it’s a typical City goal," former City striker Shaun Goater said afterwards. "It’s not a ball from wide, it’s a straight ball through but it’s typical in terms of the phase of play, the ball getting to the byline and being put across the six-yard box."

It's not hard to envisage the Haaland-Grealish combination producing plenty of goals this season, both because the pair appear to have developed