Erling Braut Haaland, Manchester City’s new £51.4million superstar, looms large over this small corner of south-west Norway.
Indeed, visitors stepping out of the train station are dwarfed by an enormous mural of the Norway striker from his days at Borussia Dortmund, painted on the side of an old dairy.
Haaland is impossible to escape in his hometown.
While he was born in Leeds in 2000, when dad Alf-Inge had just finished his playing days at Elland Road, the family moved back to Bryne when Erling was three.
Haaland joined his local team at just five and made his debut a decade later. By 16 he was gone, signing for Molde in the top flight, but a lasting impression had been left.
Robert Undheim, a winger still playing at Bryne in Norway’s second tier, was the man who Haaland replaced from the bench to make his debut in 2016.
He told SunSport: “Everybody knew he was a childhood star.
“One of the first times I saw him he was just a little kid but he had this quickness and you saw there was something special. He had everything.”
Sondre Norheim, a defender at Bryne who was a few years above Haaland in the local school, said: “I knew that he was always with the age group above him, so that alone made him stand out.
“He was trained with grown adults. He was 15 so he was always lacking a bit physically at that time, as anyone would.
“But you can see in his play that he made up for it with his positioning and ability in front of goal.”
Despite his father’s success as a player, Haaland’s youth was just like any other aspiring footballer in Bryne.
He will train with the club and then spend every spare hour playing football with friends on the artificial pitch under the dome next to the stadium.
Kids from Bryne are allowed to play for free whenever they like in the dome, which shelters you from the relentless wind in this coastal town but does not necessarily keep you warm.
Bryne chief executive Hans-Oyvind Sagen said: “Erling and his friends called it ‘The Fridge’ — it was colder inside than out.
“It shields you from the wind but maybe that is why Haaland is so strong — he always had to run into it!”
Those at the club, and Haaland himself, credit “The Fridge” as a crucial part of his development. It was a chance to grow as a player but also enjoy every minute of it.