“Streets will never forget @michuoviedo”



Michu has a little chuckle to himself as he reads out the words that Erling Haaland recently tweeted about the Spaniard’s outstanding first season in English football.



There were 22 goals, a League Cup winners’ medal, his team’s player of the year award and, as we now know, a legacy that extends well beyond everything that Miguel Perez Cuesta, or Michu, as he is more commonly known, achieved at Swansea City during that memorable 2012-13 campaign. ‘The man that inspired Erling Haaland,’ says the text under Squawka’s ‘season by numbers’ tweet.



Michu shakes his head as he looks through the photographs that Haaland posted on Instagram four years ago, back in the days when the Norwegian was a youth-team player, and tagged himself as the former Swansea No 9, as you can see below.



“I don’t know why he did that,” Michu says, smiling but also...