Pep Guardiola joke masks unwanted Erling Haaland truth Man City cannot hide from

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Pep Guardiola laughed off the idea that Erling Haaland needs a break after footage of an apparent injury emerged from training this week.

Haaland went down in front of the cameras, holding his shin before smiling with Phil Foden and carrying on the session as normal.

Was this Haaland letting the media in on an inside joke? Was he actually briefly injured before realising the cameras were on?

We will never know, but Guardiola dismissed the media attention around the 'injury' as a desperate need for news around the clock where it doesn't exist, and Haaland played 90 minutes the following day at Sporting as City slumped to a dismal defeat. ALSO READ: Pep Guardiola's latest future hint significant amid looming November 'deadline' ALSO READ: Mixed Man City injury update emerges as huge John Stones update given That game didn't exactly go to plan.