Erling Haaland is already having an unseen impact on Man City attackers

"In every interview I have to answer two or three questions about him," said Manuel Akanji this week when Erling Haaland was inevitably mentioned in an interview.

Pep Guardiola has already learned to embrace the inevitable questions about Haaland in his Manchester City press conferences, joking with the Norwegian journalists who are now regulars around the Etihad, and telling reporters last week to ask about John Stones before the avalanche of Haaland questions began after the win over Borussia Dortmund.

As well as the goals Haaland is scoring, his impact on the club as a whole in such a short space of time is remarkable — something only the biggest world stars can do. However, that attention is also having another hidden benefit to the City squad, with players beginning to open up more about the new era at the Etihad since Haaland arrived.

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Jack Grealish, speaking on international duty and facing the same Haaland question as Akanji did, had a similar assessment to his new teammate.

“Everywhere I go now — whether it be family, friends, people in the street — they always say 'what’s he like?' And I can’t speak highly enough of him,” Grealish said, before explaining how he arrived at the England camp to coaches taking the mick over his goal at Wolves.

At Molineux, Grealish darted into the box just 55 seconds into the game and converted a Kevin De Bruyne cross from close range that had just evaded Haaland.

“Could you get anything off him? I actually think I could," Grealish continued, “His mindset for scoring goals is unbelievable. If I could get that... I came here and I spoke to (England coach) Steve Holland and he said ‘was that actually you at the