{"id":1109516,"date":"2019-10-04T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1109516"},"modified":"2019-10-04T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:14:00","slug":"champions-league-trail-blazer-erling-haaland-is-fing-bored-of-man-utd-transfer-talk","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/champions-league-trail-blazer-erling-haaland-is-fing-bored-of-man-utd-transfer-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League trail-blazer Erling Haaland is &#8220;f***ing bored&#8221; of Man Utd transfer talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Red Bull Salzburg striker Erling Braut Haaland says he&#8217;s &#8220;f***ing bored&#8221; with reports linking him with Manchester United.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Norwegian has recently been making headlines through his performances in the Champions League subsequently making him a wanted man.<\/p>\n<h2>The rise and rise of Haaland: Five key things to know\u2026<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Born in Leeds to former Leeds United and Man City defender Alf-Inge Haaland.<\/li>\n<li>Began at Bryne before moving onto Molde where he worked under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.<\/li>\n<li>Made international headlines when he scored nine times past Honduras at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Became the first teenager since Wayne Rooney in 2004 to score a hat-trick on his Champions League debut for Red Bull Salzburg v Genk.<\/li>\n<li>Has subsequently been linked with Man Utd, but Haaland says he&#8217;s &#8220;bored&#8221; of those links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7383312-alisson-is-the-golden-middle-of-the-goalkeeper-venn-diagram<\/p>\n<p>Haaland, earlier this month against Belgian outfit Genk, became the first teenager since Wayne Rooney in 2004 to score two or more goals to score a hat-trick on his competition debut.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s since added one more goal in their 4-3 defeat at European champions Liverpool, which leaves him on four goals, meaning he&#8217;s the leading scorer alongside Bayern Munich forward Serge Gnabry.<\/p>\n<p>All of this followed his record-breaking performance at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in May when he stunningly bagged nine goals against Honduras; this brought him to world attention and it hasn&#8217;t subsided.<\/p>\n<p>One club reportedly keeping close tabs is Man Utd, managed by his former Molde coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but when pressed about those links he was forthright in his words.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is Liverpool\u2019s Squad Strong Enough? w\/Chris Pajak\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2aJog1tUzps?start=30&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s f*cking boring. I&#8217;m bored now,&#8221; he told VG.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How bored on a scale of 1 to 10? 9.9.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The media attention is huge. It&#8217;s good pressure<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club is good at shielding me a little, but I hope it will be more shielding in the future. It will be difficult, but we will try. I want to be shielded.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull Salzburg striker Erling Braut Haaland says he&#8217;s &#8220;f***ing bored&#8221; with reports linking him with Manchester United. The 19-year-old Norwegian has recently been making headlines through his performances in the Champions League subsequently making him a wanted man. 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