Just weeks ago, she was eating fish sandwiches in the canteen of her Norwegian school, yet now Isabel Haugseng Johansen is driven around Manchester in a white Rolls Royce.
The ‘beautiful, intelligent, sociable, outdoorsy’ schoolgirl, 18, left behind her life in a quiet corner of Scandanavia to be at the side of the newest colossus of world sport.
For Ms Johansen, who was due to sit her final exams last week, is the girlfriend of Manchester City’s record-breaking goal-scoring machine Erling Braut Haaland, 22, and has discreetly moved into his flat in the Northern Quarter, The Mail+ can reveal.
Isabel Haugseng Johansen has been given leave of absence to ‘study remotely’
Ms Johansen and Manchester City’s record-breaking goal-scoring machine Erling Haaland
Click here to read full story of Haaland’s rise to stardom – and his girlfriend – on The Mail+
The teenager has been given leave of absence to ‘study remotely’ by Brynne Upper Secondary School in south-west Norway as her boyfriend’s club is on the cusp of winning silverware on three fronts.
Ms Johansen’s friends describe her as ‘the luckiest girl in Brynne’, while Haaland’s former coaches in the obscure farming town are confident his stunning success on the pitch will not lead the striker to take his eye off the ball.
It comes after Noel Gallagher revealed Haaland was walking around the dressing room in his underpants after Man City’s 4-1 win over Arsenal this week.
Read David Jones’s full piece on the humble beginnings of the Premier League’s biggest superstar and his girlfriend on The Mail+.
Erling and Isabel seen enjoying a dip in the sea in Marbella last year
Noel Gallagher with Erling Haaland after Man City’s 4-1 win over Arsenal this week