{"id":24327,"date":"2025-11-04T14:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24327\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:06:09","slug":"manchester-city-striker-erling-haaland-insists-he-is-not-thinking-about-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24327\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City striker Erling Haaland insists he is not thinking about records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prolific striker has made an explosive start to the season for Manchester City and Norway, scoring 26 goals in 16 appearances for club and country.<\/p>\n<p>His double against Bournemouth on Sunday took his Premier League tally to 98 from 107 appearances, putting him in line to become the quickest player to reach a century of goals.<\/p>\n<p>At such a rate, and with age on his side, Alan Shearer\u2019s overall competition record of 260 would appear to be within his reach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2.82255388.jpg\" alt=\"Erling Haaland celebrates\" data-title=\"Manchester City v A.F.C. Bournemouth \u2013 Premier League \u2013 Etihad Stadium\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Martin Rickett\" data-usage-terms=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.\"  \/>Haaland is on 98 Premier League goals after his brace against Bournemouth (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he thought about records, Haaland said at a press conference: \u201cI need to ask you which record. Not to sound arrogant, but which one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the Shearer record was specifically referenced, Haaland said: \u201cI have to ignore them. I don\u2019t really know any records, but this one I know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not something I can think about, records I can break. I try to help the team win football games. I know it is boring, I know you want me to say completely the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haaland was speaking to media ahead of City\u2019s Champions League clash with his former club Borussia Dortmund at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prolific striker has made an explosive start to the season for Manchester City and Norway, scoring 26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-24327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}