Erling Haaland: Aymeric Laporte's brilliant message on his match ball after Man Utd hat-trick

Erling Haaland took home yet another match ball after his hat-trick for Manchester City against Manchester United.

Haaland, along with Phil Foden, scored three goals as City smashed Man Utd 6-3 at the Etihad.

It was Haaland’s third hat-trick in a City shirt and he has now scored three goals in each of his last three home matches.

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In total, he’s notched 17 goals in just 11 appearances since signing for the club in the summer for just £51 million.

Ridiculous numbers from a ridiculous player.

He must be an absolute dream to have in your team.

However, there is one downside to him continually scoring hat-tricks – you have to keep writing messages to him on his match ball.

That’s certainly something playing on Aymeric Laporte’s mind.

Laporte has missed the entire season with a knee injury but played 15 minutes in the Manchester derby. And he was on hand to write on Haaland’s hat-trick ball after the Manchester derby.

And it seems he’s fed up of it.

On his latest ball, Laporte wrote: “I have signed more balls for your hat-tricks than contracts.”

Aymeric @Laporte's message on @ErlingHaaland's match ball: "I have signed more balls for your hat-tricks than contracts." [via @carrusel] https://t.co/f6Fj9dRsm2

It surely won’t be the last time he’s signing Haaland’s match ball either…

The French defender later retweeted an image of Haaland and Foden holding their match balls and wrote: “This is going to cost a lot of money in footballs lol”.

We wonder if Haaland still sleeps with his match balls.

Back in 2019 when playing for Red Bull Salzburg, the Norweigen admitted he treated his match balls like his girlfriends.

“They lie in bed and I sleep well with them,” Haaland told Dagbladet. “I