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Erling Haaland is developing into a "better" striker for Manchester City and he has the potential to “obliterate” Alan Shearer’s all-time Premier League goalscoring record, Citizens expert Steven McInerney tells Sports Mole.

Erling Haaland is developing into a "better" striker for Manchester City and he has the potential to “obliterate” Alan Shearer’s all-time Premier League goalscoring record, Citizens expert Steven McInerney from Esteemed Kompany has told Sports Mole.

The 25-year-old Norwegian is enjoying his fourth season at the Etihad Stadium and has made an outrageous start to 2025-26, scoring 18 goals in just 11 appearances for club and country.

Haaland has found the net in each of his last nine competitive appearances, which is the longest scoring run of his career in top-flight/international football, and he most recently scored his ninth Premier League goal of the campaign in a narrow 1-0 win at Brentford last weekend.

Since joining from Borussia Dortmund in 2022, Haaland has scored 94 goals in 104 Premier League games for Pep Guardiola’s side, the 10th most scored by a player for a manager in the division’s history.

McInerney believes that Haaland is improving under Guardiola and he is relishing the responsibility he...