‘That’s Him Out For 3 Months Again’ ‘He Hasn’t Played Since May’ Fans Baffled As City Star Picks Up Injury

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed that Erling Haaland sustained a knock in the 2-2 draw against Barcelona earlier this week.

The Norwegian international was withdrawn at half-time on Tuesday evening and, asked about the player’s fitness, Guardiola replied:

“Erling is not comfortable. We don’t want to take risks. But sooner or later he has to take a step with training and minutes. The season is there, around the corner. He has niggles, muscular, we don’t want to take a risk and lose him for three weeks or a month. That would be a problem.”


Fans on X are rather puzzled as to how Haaland has managed to pick up an injury despite having not even played a full 90 minutes since the end of last season:

Will Haaland be fit to start the Community Shield?

From the sound of things, it doesn’t look like that the striker will be in the starting XI when the Cityzens take on Chelsea in Ohio this weekend. As Guardiola says, there is no point in taking a risk on his fitness.

With the Community Shield coming up against Manchester United in just ten days’ time, it remains to be seen whether Haaland will be ready for that game.

City don’t usually take the season curtain raiser too seriously, though, so supporters may have to wait until the first Premier League fixture to see him back in action.

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David Tully

David Tully

David has worked as a football reporter for the last fifteen years. Having started as an intern at Snack Media, he then went on to become a freelancer, working on various different sites. At the start of 2023, he took up his current role as content writer for National World's Football News Network.