On his incredible start to life at Dortmund, Haaland added: “It’s been a very good start and from my debut I’ve been enjoying it a lot and smiling a lot and these kind of things and that’s what’s the most important about my life, to smile a lot and these kind of things. So, yeah, that’s what I try to do the most.

“I feel I’m improving every day and now that I play with even better team-mates than what I played with in Salzburg – all respect to Salzburg – but yeah, they can find me in even better situations, so it’s been good.”

Haaland was mocked by Neymar and the PSG squad after Dortmund lost to the Ligue 1 holders in the Champions League last 16.

A first-leg brace from Haaland gave Dortmund a 2-1 win over PSG before the French champions rallied to secure a 3-2 aggregate victory back in March.

Haaland celebrated his two goals in the opening leg by sitting cross-legged and pretending to meditate – a celebration Neymar mimicked at the Parc des Princes, with some of his PSG team-mates doing the same after the game.

The Norway international claims he wasn’t bothered, however, insisting that it helped show off the practice of meditation to the watching world.

He said: “I think they helped me a lot to get meditation out in the world and to show the whole world that meditation is an important thing so I’m thankful that they helped me with that.”

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