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Rob DawsonReporter
Kevin de Bruyne welcome the new signing Erling Haaland arrive City of Manchester with more than a decent imitation of the prolific Norwegian striker on Wednesday.
De Bruyne scored four times in one 5-1 beat Wolveseven mimicked Haaland’s famous meditative celebration after completing his hat trick.
“I only did it because I scored three goals. That never happened,” De Bruyne said later.
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Haaland will move to the Etihad Stadium in the summer after City agreed to activate the €60m release clause in his contract at Borussia Dortmund.
And Pep Guardiola has backed Haaland to “adapt quickly” to his style of play at Manchester City, sending a warning to the rest of the Premier League by insisting City will be even better off with the 21 forward. year old.
“Congratulations to the club, he will be signed in the coming years,” said Guardiola.
“He is a talented young player, I am very pleased that he has decided to come and join us. Next season we will work together and hopefully he can settle down.
“We’ll get him settled as soon as possible back to Manchester and home. I’m pretty sure he’ll adapt quickly to the way we want to play.”
Man City have now scored 10 goals in two games since they left the Champions League next Real Madrid and sit just four points from another headline.
After the win at Molineux, Guardiola also heaped praise on De Bruyne, who scored four goals within an hour before witnessing another effort go wide of the post.
“I’m disappointed for him because he missed the fifth goal,” said Guardiola.
“What can I say? The second part of the league was absolutely perfect. He’s always been generous and has a sense of assists but I think this season he also has a sense to be prolific and score goals. .
“He won the match against Chelsea, he scored against Madrid. He is decisive in scoring – this is the greatest. I am very pleased with him, scoring four goals in the decisive period of the tournament is very important. “
Man City have an injury problem ahead of Sunday’s trip to West Ham.
Kyle Walker, Ruben Dias and John Stones was left out of the last two games of the season and Guardiola has seen both Aymeric Laporte and Fernandinho went limp in the second half at Wolves.
