Norway striker Erling Haaland updated his Instagram to reveal he’s cut off his trademark long hair. Following his “Short hair don’t care” post, a thread on 5ch’s Geinosupo Sokuho+ board lit up with reactions to the new look, including “It suits him” and “He’s lost that monster-like aura.”
Norway’s “monster striker” Erling Haaland (25), who helped his country reach the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time at the FIFA World Cup in North/Central America, updated his Instagram on the 23rd to reveal he’d chopped off his trademark long hair.
Haaland captioned the post “Short hair don’t care,” showing off his new close-cropped style, trimmed short with clippers.
Fans reacted with comments like “Nice!” and “It suits him,” while others expressed regret, saying “I can’t believe this day actually came.”
Source: sponichi.co.jp / Original article here
3Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:47:34.71ID:8dnn3emW0
Maybe it's the nose and lips
Fixing those up would probably make things better
6Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:48:59.93ID:0TWugElz0
He's getting closer to looking like Biff from Back to the Future
7Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:49:11.08ID:L8INEpFb0
>>1
That's an awkward in-between length, like a botched attempt at going bald
A bit longer would look better
13Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:50:16.02ID:qBjPNdv40
With long hair, when strands fall out it just feels like way more is falling out than it actually is
18Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:52:25.56ID:my6HBq510
Now that it's short he just looks… normal
That unique vibe is gone
22Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:53:45.00ID:8RioTmsQ0
He looks like Kindo-chan from Macaroni Hourensou (a classic retro Japanese manga character)
23Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:54:03.32ID:HuVI+j+10
Glad it's gone, the long hair always grossed me out a bit —
but wait, didn't he have a stake in a hair-tie company?
26Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:54:18.82ID:LlhiKus+0
He always has that face like he's had hyaluronic acid filler shots
Guys with faces like his are probably why idiots go get filler injections lol
30Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:55:39.89ID:5Zq5sCy90
So even Haaland is bad at taking selfies
36Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:58:13.46ID:D9eKe35N0
Finally back to his Salzburg-era look
That topknot he had was as bad as Bale's
37Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:58:37.00ID:pParBCeq0
Overall this look is cleaner and it does suit him more, so it's probably for the best, but it's lost that monstrous aura he had with the long hair
63Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:12:01.85ID:h31/XcLt0
>>37
Yeah, he's lost that medieval-fantasy-knight look too
39Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:58:49.61ID:jy+sjKeQ0
Years of pulling it back too tight and now he's going bald
42Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:59:52.81ID:4+xwm5VA0
The football world lately
hair transplants and plastic surgery are all the rage, which is a bit much
but this one's actually funny
43Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 20:59:53.38ID:Pam6bFat0
I wonder what shampoo he uses
44Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:00:17.59ID:oD8yd8000
He's definitely got some Neanderthal blood in him
48Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:01:47.68ID:ieGfpEsP0
Long hair gets tangled. I get it, honestly
49Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:02:04.63ID:szwkQMMn0
Well, if Haaland had actually been good-looking, he probably wouldn't have turned into "Haaland" in the first place
51Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:03:01.00ID:wNH9QylH0
Lame…
Can't believe he got rid of his trademark look
56Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:06:54.69ID:C7rEsfyn0
He was juuust about to land a hair-product sponsorship too
Did his deal with the hair-tie company fall through?
57Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:06:57.41ID:+d9/aB4t0
Figured I wouldn't recognize him without the long hair, but nope — still unmistakably Haaland
60Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:10:24.27ID:Y133Gfnr0
Might as well grow it out while you still can
62Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:11:05.74ID:GSEFd8gT0
The long hair suited him though, kind of a Pulp Fiction vibe
64Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:12:24.85ID:qELVolw70
I want him to grow out a beard and braid it next
65Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:12:26.55ID:vxvOWbK70
Doing something different can either scare your luck away
or turn things around for the better
68Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:13:31.12ID:yjI910fk0
The sheer presence of that face lol, kind of cute though
72Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:15:14.10ID:C7rEsfyn0
He split the cut-off hair into several bundles and put them in Ziploc bags — is he planning to donate it to charity or something?
73Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:15:23.83ID:k9rkC35Z0
It suits him
Unrelated, but I kind of want Kubo (Takefusa Kubo, the Japanese footballer) to switch things up too — go skinhead with a beard or something
76Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:16:28.78ID:Y8R907Za0
That Korean hair-tie company must be gutted
80Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:18:25.79ID:0JdXkjPl0
Long hair is nothing but a hindrance when you're playing sports
81Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:18:56.71ID:5/B9c0lP0
Hurry up and get out of that sorry excuse for a club already
He's wasting his career there
83Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:19:23.35ID:PQ6ohc/t0
That said, the long blond hair on that jacked-up body gave him this eerie, intimidating presence, so while the clean-cut look isn't bad,
it just doesn't quite feel like "Haaland," if that makes sense
88Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:22:00.83ID:poqbVnKU0
This reminds me of Home Alone
112Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:37:55.13ID:DypUibgs0
>>88
Lol it kind of does look like him
93Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:25:10.68ID:s9oAeb1u0
Is he part Mongolian?
96Anonymous2026/08/23(日) 21:27:02.23ID:hBVbUra40
>>93
Nordic people have some Sami ancestry mixed in
*This article is an excerpt and summary based on the 5ch (Geinosupo Sokuho+) thread “[Football] “Monster” Haaland chops off his trademark long hair! Fans flood in over his new look.”
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