Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola had a savage response for Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, after the latter had hinted that Guardiola might not be capable to enhance Erling Haaland due to the supervisor’s “ego.” Haaland is having a dream run in his first Premier League season, having scored 17 objectives in merely 11 matches and 22 objectives total in 15 appearances for Manchester Metropolis.
Haaland had joined metropolis in a 51m deal from Borussia Dortmund in the summertime switch window and shortly proved he may settle beneath Guardiola, who has typically performed and not using a central striker with Manchester Metropolis previously few years.
Zlatan, who had labored with Guardiola throughout the former’s time at Barcelona in 2009-10 and had a spectacular fall-out with the Spaniard that noticed the striker leaving the Catalan membership solely after a 12 months, had warned Haaland to not enable Guardiola’s ‘ego’ to hamper his profession.
“Is Guardiola in a position to enhance him? That is determined by the ego that Guardiola has,’ Ibrahimovic mentioned. ‘If he permits himself to be larger than Haaland or not. He did not enable me or the others to be as large,” Zlatan had mentioned on Canal Plus.
The Manchester Metropolis supervisor got here again at Zlatan with a savage response throughout the membership’s press convention. “He’s proper, he’s utterly proper – on this membership, on this workforce, my ego is past each different particular person,” Guardiola mentioned sarcastically.
It did not finish there.
“I do not prefer it when Erling scores three objectives, and all of the highlights are for him. I’m so jealous! Actually, so jealous!” Guardiola additional mentioned.
“I mentioned: ‘Erling, please no extra objectives, in any other case the Solar and Day by day Mail will not speak about me’.”
Manchester Metropolis are presently second within the Premier League desk with 29 factors in 12 matches; Arsenal lead the desk with 31 factors.