With Manchester City striker Erling Haaland sitting comfortably at the top of the Premier League's scoring chart, it has now been claimed the Norwegian would struggle to score nearly as freely in the lower tiers of English football.
The 22-year-old has already scored 15 times in just 10 EPL appearances since completing his move to the Etihad from Borussia Dortmund, and is six goals ahead of the league's next best scorer so far this season, Tottenham Hotspur centre-forward Harry Kane, who has scored nine goals in 11 outings.
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With Haaland having claimed the record for scoring three hat-tricks in three successive home games for City – against Crystal Palace, Nottingham Forest, and most notably Manchester United – some have already tipped him to break the Premier League record for the most goals in a 38-game season currently held by Liverpool talisman Mohamed Salah, who netted 32 times in the 2017/18 campaign.
However, despite Haaland's incredible run so far in England, Arsenal legend Paul Merson has now insisted that the hype around the Citizens attacker is overblown and that he would not be as prolific in a lower division despite his qualities.
"Manchester City will want to win the Champions League and if they are playing Brighton or whoever at 3pm on the Saturday, and they have Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or PSG on the Tuesday in the semi-final, they will care about Europe," Merson told Sky Sports.
"They have won the Premier League four out of the last five seasons!
"With the World Cup making the season stopping and starting, Haaland will not be playing for six weeks! He needs the service [he gets at City].
"Everyone is going on about how great and super he is and how the movement is great and how powerful he is, but if he's not getting the ball on a sixpence, it doesn't matter how good your movement is, he's not getting the ball.
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"He would not score 60 goals in League Two, and I was a manager there with Walsall."
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