Norway boss makes Ballon d'Or prediction for Erling Haaland as Man City chief makes European admission

Here are your Manchester City evening headlines for Monday, September 11.

Erling Haaland is one of the favourites to win the Ballon d'Or this year - but his national team manager believes Lionel Messi should win the award instead.

Haaland scored 52 goals for Manchester City last season, helping the Blues win a historic treble and smashing multiple Premier League goalscoring records on the way. Having won the big Player of the Year awards in England, Haaland was recently crowned UEFA Player of the Year, and has his sights on the prestigious Ballon d'Or gong.

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However, Messi is odds-on favourite due to his form at the 2022 World Cup, where he dragged Argentina to the final, and then scored twice against France to help his country become World Champions.

And Norway boss Stale Solbakken says that Messi will beat Haaland to the Ballon d'Or for his World Cup exploits.

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When Manchester City were knocked out of the Champions League in 2022 at Real Madrid, there was confusion and misery at the club.

But CEO Ferran Soriano instructed his staff to put the disappointment behind them the very next day and focus on winning the tournament in 2022/23. City had been picturing themselves in the final in Paris when they headed into injury time ahead at the Bernabeu in the 2022 semi-final, but conceded two quick-fire goals and lost in extra time to crash out of the competition.

A year on, they drew in Madrid at the same stage and blew Real away in the home leg to book their place in Istanbul, where they beat Inter Milan to finally lift the European Cup.

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