Guardiola: Haaland is at the level of Mero Kane Lewandowski in terms of goals, but Mero has maintained it for 20 years

Sports     12:03pm, 29 September 2025

After defeating Burnley, Manchester City coach Guardiola talked about topics such as Haaland's outstanding form and Savigno's contract.

Regarding whether you have ever encountered players as prolific as Haaland - Messi and Ronaldo, right? In terms of goals, he should be on par with them. At his age, maybe his data is better. In terms of goals, he can be compared with Kane, Lewandowski and others. However, Messi and Ronaldo have maintained this performance every season for 15 to 20 consecutive years. But Haaland is still young, yes, he has reached that level. In terms of goals, he has reached that level.

Regarding Savigno's long-term future

-Yes (he will sign a new long-term contract), we are very clear about wanting to keep him. It depends on the quote, maybe the previous quote was not ideal enough, I don't know. At his age, he played a lot of playing time last season, and he could play on both sides and his speed was incredible, so in these aspects, he was really outstanding.

New contract for O'Reilly

- Yes, it's done, Rico Lewis, O'Reilly, I think Savigno is soon, and Ruben Dias before, the club will try to keep these players we want. I'm glad that O'Reilly made great progress and helped us a lot, he's improved a lot in aggressiveness, set balls and possession, and yes, we're very satisfied.

About Oscar Bob

- We need him, we need players on the bench to come forward. In the first few games, the situation was not ideal. Those players who come on the bench, such as the B seat, give us what we need in this position. So from this perspective, we are very, very satisfied with Bob's performance because we know that he always performs very, very well in a small space. I don't know if it was his goal or his own goal, but he was in that position at the time, which was very important.

About Rodri's health

-Yesterday Rodri said in training that he could not play, he said his knees hurt, I told him that he would not play, another person would play. Is

the knee that was injured before?

-Yes.