To comply with within the footsteps of goal-machine Erling Haaland appears to be one of soccer’s most delicate jobs. Borussia Dortmund’s new arrival Sebastien Haller doesn’t really feel any stress to interchange the 21-year-old Norwegian, who scored 86 targets in 89 video games within the shirt of the Black and Yellows.
“Who said I am the successor of Haaland? I joined Borussia, right. But I didn’t join in to succeed anyone. I joined the club to help the side achieve success and the club wanted my experience and skills,” the 28-year-old striker instructed Xinhua in a latest interview.
“We want to be successful and we want to win titles; that’s the story,” the Cote d’Ivoire worldwide insisted.
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Haller’s signing comes together with huge expectations as he stands for a technique change at Dortmund. Instead of going for one more promising expertise up entrance, the 2012 German champion determined to get an skilled footballer.
The two instances Dutch champion mentioned his two years at Eintracht Frankfurt (2017-2019) may assist velocity up issues “as today I know more about the Bundesliga and German football than I did the first time when I was the new kid in town.”
A son of a Cote d’Ivoire mom and a French father, Haller collected worldwide expertise at a excessive stage within the shirt of Ajax. 32 targets in 50 video games for the Dutch facet made him a trusted box-striker.
With Haaland (Manchester City) and Robert Lewandowski (Barca) leaving Bundesliga, doorways is perhaps open for Haller to go for the German nationwide league’s prime scorer crown.
“I won’t start to complain. Lewandowski has left. But for a start it doesn’t change things too much for me,” the 1.90-meter-tall attacker mentioned.
Haller added that if issues work properly for Dortmund, he’s eyeing the scorer crown as every other striker “as you always want to score as many goals as possible.”
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