A premium vertical football poster featuring Erling Haaland in a Manchester City editorial sports collage style.
Goal: Create a premium football poster for Manchester City striker Erling Haaland, with a dramatic editorial sports-design look.
Canvas: Vertical portrait poster, roughly 4:5 ratio, off-white aged paper background with subtle grain, scuffs, faint circular pitch-map lines, and a centered composition.
Layout: At the very top center place the Manchester City crest. Add small spaced uppercase text on the top left reading “MAY 17, 26” and on the top right reading “MAN CITY”. In the upper right corner include a small white “Pollo ai” watermark. The main image area contains exactly 3 tall vertical rectangular panels side by side with narrow white dividers: left panel shows a grayscale close-up side profile of the player in a Manchester City shirt; center panel shows a grayscale close-up portrait behind the main figure; right panel shows a grayscale close-up of the player kissing or holding the club badge on the shirt. Use dark navy, high-contrast, grainy photo treatment in the panels.
Subject details: In front of the 3 panels, place a full-body cutout of the player standing confidently, centered and overlapping the title. He wears the Manchester City sky-blue home kit with Etihad Airways sponsor, white shorts, sky-blue socks, blue football boots, and number 9 on the shorts. He holds a Premier League football tucked under his left arm and rests his right hand on his hip. Use realistic sports photography lighting, crisp cutout edges, and a subtle shadow.
Typography and text: Across the lower third, create a huge bold uppercase player-name title in two stacked lines: “ERLING” in dark navy, then “HAALAND” in bright sky blue, partially behind the player’s legs. Add a light blue autograph-style signature with a small number 9 on the lower left. Below the title, add a small centered uppercase biography line: “ERLING BRAUT HAALAND IS A NORWEGIAN PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER WHO PLAYS AS A STRIKER FOR PREMIER LEAGUE CLUB MANCHESTER CITY AND CAPTAINS THE NORWAY NATIONAL TEAM”. At the very bottom center, place a small decorative line with the number “9”.
Visual style: Modern football transfer-announcement poster, realistic photographic collage, navy and sky-blue Manchester City palette, distressed print texture, elegant spacing, high-end magazine cover quality.
Constraints: Use exactly 3 background portrait panels, exactly 1 full-body foreground player, exactly 1 club crest, exactly 1 signature mark, and exactly 1 football. Keep the poster clean and centered, with no extra players, no extra logos beyond the crest and watermark, and no unrelated text.
