Norway strengthens its national team in the League of Nations meeting.
The Manchester City doctor (!) joins the crew.
A genius blow from Haaland, says national team captain Stoll Solbakken.
There has been talk of Zlatan Ibrahimovic being treated differently in the Swedish national team under Erik Hamren.
The question is whether or not Erling Braut Haaland He already tops it now, at 22.
The Norwegian goal machine that surprised the entire football world after moving to Manchester City where he scored goals and broke record after record, gets a “personal” doctor with him during the national team meeting.
“brilliant”
Manchester City have agreed to ‘loan’ one of their team’s doctors, Mario Pafundi, who is now joining the Norway squad for participation during the ongoing Nations League campaign.
– Since we have 26-27 players on the team, it will be a lot of work for two physiotherapists and we have already had discussions about including a third player. Then Erling came up with a genius idea to take a very good one (from Manchester City), says Norway captain Stoll Solbakken according to Dagbladet.
A ‘win’ for both sides as Manchester City of course want to monitor the golden nugget and make sure he doesn’t get injured.
But the question is whether City will now be able to share control of Haaland’s playing time in the national team?
Books in front of the TV
The 22-year-old has had his fair share of injuries in recent years, and during the start of the Premier League season, City boss Pep Guardiola insisted he must be tackled carefully.
Despite this, he started every match and played 825 of the possible 900 minutes.
Unexpectedly lots of playtime made Ståle Solbakken anxious.
City managed it very well, but I was a little worried when I watched the game against Wolverhampton this weekend. They were going 3-0 but he was running like a madman screaming at everything and everyone when he didn’t get the ball, just because he wanted to score another goal. I sat in the house and cried, “Calm down, Erling!” Because there will be more important matches, Solbach told VG, referring to the Norwegian Nations League matches.
They meet with Slovenia on Saturday and Serbia on Tuesday.