Erling... Congratulations.
You've won the Footballer of the Year award.
I don't know if you've seen the main room, but there's 75 years of history there.
Some of the greatest players who played in this country.
How do you feel?
Well, of course I feel good.
A special moment, of course,
when I knew it a couple of weeks ago.
And yeah, to be here today is a it's a nice thing.
And I look forward to to the night.
Only one or two players before have won it in their first season here.
Has this season gone, has it exceeded your expectations?
No, I didn't expect to be to be that good,
but I expected to be good, of course, to come in the team,
to a team that's been
scoring many goals, one that has been winning the Premier
League a lot of times and two years in a row now three.
So I expected to do good things.
But to do this I didn't quite expect.
And yeah, it's been a fantastic season so far and
yeah, I'm happy.
Obviously you were born over here in Yorkshire.
How do you feel? Settled in in Manchester?
Good. I like it.
I'm enjoying on and off the pitch
and yeah, I'm enjoying my life.
The Premier League titles in the bag. We know that.
We've got the FA Cup final coming up and then the Champions League final
coming up after that.
A historic treble is possible, but the players started to talk about it yet?
Of course, everyone knows everyone knew it, even a couple of months ago
that it was possible and everyone knows now that it's possible. And
I will do everything I can to
to make it possible that would be a big dream.
And yeah, it's two finals left.
So we'll see.
And of course, the only other team to do that is from the other side of Manchester,
the red side.
And they've got you in the Cup final next week.
That be an extra incentive for them?
Is that, is that something or even could it be an added
bonus for you if you beat them en route to that treble?
That's going to be, they're going to
want to do everything they can to
not make us win this final.
Of course, it's a final.
It's living it's own...
It's in its own thing.
And we have to play at our best to to have a chance there.
I mean, that semi-final, that
semi-final of the Champions League against Real Madrid, I think particularly
the first half people were talking about it.
Some of us
who were there lucky enough to see it as almost perfection on a football pitch.
Does that give you that sort of sense of
invincibility when you go out, when when you can play
like that?
Good question.
I the first half is, when I saw it again,
it was one of the few games I've been watching again.
And I think it's the best first half I've ever seen
ever in my life, from a football team.
And...
no, you don't feel like this, but
you have the confidence when if we are struggling a bit.
I look around myself and I see all the good players, all my teammates,
and then you just get the confidence directly back and
yeah, I mean, it's
tw finals left and then we still have to stay focused,
even though we, we won the Premier League, but we still have to stay
focused to achieve
and do what we can to achieve in the next two finals.
I mean you'll go into that final as hot favourites against Inter,
but does that make it a little bit more dangerous from from their point
of view that they'll be underdogs and you probably have to guard against
being not complacent perhaps, but just being such hot favourites?
We cannot think of this.
It's a good thing being favorites as well, because that means we have
we have qualities.
So we have to attack the game in our way and we have to play,
try to play our football. That's what we have to try to do. In
the end, we'll see who wins it.
And just tell us a few words about Pep (Guardiola)
because obviously this is his fifth Premier League title in six years.
Is he the best coach in the world?
Yeah, for sure, yes.
When you when you just said that fifth Premier League in six years is is unreal.
And yeah, he he makes things look so easy you know,
on the training ground and on the in the games
it's it's crazy what he's doing he makes us do
and how good we can play you know and it's a big honour
for me to to work with him and have him as my coach.
It's, it's a pleasure.
And when you win that title run in when Arsenal were eight
points ahead at one point, did you - what was his message to you?
Just keep going. Win your games.
Don't worry about what they did.
Yeah, it was really just about
sorry.
It was really just about taking game by game to be honest and to
to focus on what we can focus about.
You know, I don't like to focus about
in the future or in the past.
I like to live in the moment and I like to take game by game exactly
what he he said we were going to do.
And that's what we did.
Then we focused and we achieved exactly what we wanted to achieve. In
the end.
It's unreal what we did, being behind the whole season
and just in the end, just come like a unit together,
was amazing and also an amazing feeling.
And you mentioned some of your teammates earlier, their support.
Kevin De Bruyne was, was it was in the top five for this award as well.
And you've got players like Jack Grealish.
You've now really hit the stage in a big way after maybe a quiet first season,
some big characters in that dressing room like what's what's the vibe?
What's the mood?
The vibe is fantastic.
I really enjoy myself. I have a lot of friends.
We joke a lot.
We enjoy a lot in the locker room and on the pitch. So
yeah, I'm really enjoying it.
And there's so many good
guys in the team as well.
And that also helps on.
And just finally for me, what's next for Erling Haaland?
Is it more records, more trophies? What are your ambitions?
You know, as I said, there's two more finals and I will do everything I can to
and to achieve good things in these finals.
And then hopefully win both.
That's what I will try to achieve.
Fantastic. Well, enjoy your night. Thank you.