Erling Haaland arrived at the Etihad Stadium wearing a cap. Nobody suspected what he was hiding underneath until he took it off during the warm-up against Bournemouth: his classic blond mane had disappeared completely.
The Norwegian documented it all in a nearly seven-minute video for his YouTube channel, and that’s where the best part is: the reactions of some football personalities.
Zlatan Ibrahimović, who months earlier had warned him never to cut his hair because “that was where his strength lived”, video-called him and jokingly asked whether he had lost a bet.
Pep Guardiola also joined in with some humor, joking about his own baldness, and even Noel Gallagher from Oasis got his own personal video call.
His partner, Isabel Johansen, was left open-mouthed when she saw him. City won 2-1 that night, with Haaland in the starting lineup and now almost unrecognizable.