Guardiola and a harsh reality check for Haaland after being compared to Messi

Erling Haaland is the most in-form striker at present. The Norwegian has 19 goals in less than 1000 minutes this season. The player is already starting to break records and for this reason comparisons with Lionel Messi did not take long to arrive. However, the Norwegian's current coach gives him a reality check on the comparisons with the Argentine.

Guardiola has been one of the people most surprised by Erling Haaland's brutal performance in such a short time. The team's current goal scorer is already seen as a leader in the squad and is scoring goals every game. However, despite his enormous talent, for Pep Guardiola the comparisons with a young Lionel Messi seem not to have gone down well.

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It turns out that for Pep Guardiola, Lionel Messi's coach, the Paris Saint-Germain striker is one of the best in history. For this reason, he considers that a certain amount of sanity should be kept when making comparisons with the Argentine player. A situation that he expressed to different media in a press conference with Manchester City.

What did Pep Guardiola say about Erling Haaland?

For Guardiola, the best thing is for the Norwegian to build his own path and make his own history. ''Nobody can compare (with Messi). People compare Erling to Leo. I think they don't help us. How many 'new Messi's' appeared in the soccer world since I started? 10-15? They always fail,'' explained