Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola doesn't expect Erling Haaland to 'take a nap' after committing until 2034.
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00:00What was your reaction when he told you that Erling was going to sign for 10 years?
00:06I said, can you repeat? Have you seen a player extend 10 years contract?
00:15If you continue with the numbers since he arrived, yeah.
00:18It will depend on the team, it will depend on him as well.
00:22But it's exceptional news for all of us, for the club.
00:26When one player decides to sign this type of contract, never had done before,
00:31it's because he wants to show how desperate he wants to be here.
00:35Of course he's a special player.
00:37To find a player like Erling is so difficult.
00:40To find a striker in that level, once we have it, why don't we make the effort to keep him?
00:45The club knows perfectly how professional he is.
00:47His commitment in every single game and every single day to show his talent.
00:52And of course for him, because in 10 years, wow, you never know what's going to happen.
00:56It's a long, long time.
00:58The club and the team, myself as a manager, we have to create an environment,
01:02create a lot of moments that he can intervene in when he's unstoppable.
01:08Because there is the best.
01:10I think he's so young, still young, and I'm pretty sure he's mature,
01:13that playing games and games and games, it's going to happen naturally.
01:17I don't have the feeling that he's a guy with a contract to say,
01:20OK, now I have this, I'm going to take a nap.
01:23I don't think it's going to happen.
01:25I think he loves to play and he's a huge competitor.
01:29He came from Norway.
01:31I think maybe the weather here is better than when he was born.
01:35And he settled perfectly.
01:36I think what happened is that he loves the club, the people he's around.
01:40He loves the Premier League.
01:41He loves to be here with him, his wife, and now his father.
01:46I think he visualised that there is no better place that I could be right now
01:50in the next 10 years, I would say.
01:52You weren't tempted by 10 years extension yourself?
01:54Next season I will do, if they still are here, I will do 10 years.
01:58There has been a little bit of uncertainty.
02:00Do you think it's the kind of thing that people look at and think about?
02:02It helps, it helps for sure.
02:03He's making me a better manager, a better staff.
02:07That's for sure. He's helping.
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