Erling Haaland sends Pep Guardiola message as he discusses Man City's rivalry with Liverpool FC

Your Manchester City evening headlines for Thursday, July 14.

Erling Haaland interview with the Manchester Evening News

Erling Haaland is ready.

Ready to learn from Pep Guardiola, ready to become the most marked man in the Premier League, and ready to add his 'little bit of extra fire' to one of the biggest rivalries in modern football. He is also on time for this interview — his first major sit-down since joining City in the most high-profile transfer of the summer window — and jokingly puts that down to having spent the last three years in Germany as he bounds onto the training pitch.

Haaland exudes the confidence of a 21-year-old that has scored 135 goals in 196 appearances to become the most in-demand striker in world football, but he is already focused on proving that his latest career decision will be as spectacularly successful as his previous ones have. Forget finding a house or planning birthday celebrations, he is more interested in a good pre-season that will set him up to hit the ground running in English football.

Read the full interview here.

Erling Haaland sends Pep Guardiola contract message

Haaland wants to work with Guardiola for more than one season as he starts his City career.

Haaland, 21, has signed a five-year deal at the Etihad in one of the most high-profile transfers of the summer as a player described by the City chairman as arguably the best No.9 in the world looks to test his phenomenal scoring record in the Premier League. The Norwegian striker has been brought to Manchester to belatedly give Guardiola a world-class striker and to make the squad even more primed for glory in every competition.

Guardiola only has a year left on his contract at City and has said he may not make a decision on