Former Manchester Untied midfielder Keane in contrast the prolific Metropolis striker to a “League Two participant” when referring to his common play final month.
Haaland put these remarks apart with a devastating return to prime type as Metropolis crushed Wolves 5-1 to retain management of the Premier League title race.
“I don’t actually care that a lot about that man, in order that’s all proper,” mentioned Haaland in an interview with a broadcaster from his native Norway.
Any bitterness is probably going rooted in Keane’s long-running feud with Haaland’s father Alf-Inge. Keane was notoriously despatched off for a horrific deal with on Haaland senior in 2001.
Haaland surprised Wolves with a first-half hat-trick, two of which had been penalties, and took his tally for the marketing campaign to 36 in all competitions with an excellent fourth.
Substitute Julian Alvarez wrapped up the scoring as Metropolis moved again inside a degree of leaders Arsenal on the prime of the desk with a recreation in hand.
“We simply need to win our video games now, calm down tonight and concentrate on Fulham,” Haaland added.
Haaland scored 52 targets in his good first season at Metropolis and supervisor Pep Guardiola insisted any drop-off in type this time period is essentially all the way down to his harm issues.
Guardiola mentioned: “He was injured. To come back again to his finest type, he wants time. He’s so tall. He’s not like Jeremy (Doku) or Phil (Foden).
“I’m comfortable for his efficiency and his distinctive targets, and the penalties as properly as a result of we all know how typically they don’t seem to be simple.
“However the second and the fourth had been unbelievable. I’m actually happy for him.”
Metropolis have three video games remaining in comparison with Arsenal’s two.
Guardiola mentioned: “It was a greater outcome than efficiency. Individuals see 5-1 however I don’t have the sensation that was actually good.
“However we’re proud of the outcome. Now we’ve got to take 9 factors, in any other case Arsenal will win the title.”
Wolves boss Gary O’Neil felt Metropolis’s first penalty, awarded after a conflict between Josko Gvardiol and Rayan Ait-Nouri, was debatable however admitted Metropolis deserved their victory.
O’Neil, whose facet mustered a comfort by means of Hwang Hee-chan, mentioned: “The primary penalty, I assumed, was a extremely poor choice. It was an odd one.
“However we’ve got to take duty for the best way the sport unfolded. I feel we made a number of errors, unforced ones as properly, which gave Manchester Metropolis some actually good possibilities.
“You will get away with some errors in opposition to different groups however we knew we would have liked to attempt to be as near excellent as doable right here, and we fell brief on quite a few events.
“That meant it was a reasonably snug afternoon for Manchester Metropolis.”