{"id":2615,"date":"2026-09-11T17:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:51:17","slug":"erling-haalands-drastic-haircut-has-only-enhanced-man-city-stars-booming-personal-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland&#8217;s drastic haircut has only enhanced Man City star&#8217;s booming personal brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"main body\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Someone who can attest to the power of regularly changing your look and whose brand certainly didn&#8217;t suffer as a result is David Beckham, who had the entrepreneurial nous, looks and personality to ensure his legacy transcends his football career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The former Manchester United, Real Madrid and England superstar has donned a variety of famous (and infamous) hairstyles down the years, including his boyish curtains, ill-advised cornrows and mohawk, a Haaland-esque ponytail and, of course, a buzzcut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It became a news event every time Beckham changed his appearance, and Haaland has already emulated that by going viral with his first big chop. Addressing the striker&#8217;s new look on <\/span><i><em>CBS <\/em><\/i><span>in midweek, Beckham said: &#8220;I actually think it looks great. New season, new haircut, still scoring the same goals,&#8221; before going on to pick the buzzcut as his favourite ever hairstyle for its ease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Haaland, too, has clearly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/originals\/david-beckham-how-footballers-recognise-importance-building-brand\/bltf1b5dafa33526c95\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>recognised the need to build a personal brand<\/span><\/a><span> that will sustain him well beyond his playing days. There&#8217;s certainly something to be said for keeping things fresh to keep your audience on its toes, and in the YouTube video, he suggested he won&#8217;t have short hair for long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Looking back over old photos of himself in preparation for his big haircut, the striker held one up from October 2020 where he has medium-length blonde locks, styled with a middle parting and hairband. &#8220;Jack Grealish! What do you think?,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to having this hair again because I like it, not long, not short, in between.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone who can attest to the power of regularly changing your look and whose brand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/How20Haalands20haircut20effects20his20brand.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}