Erling Haaland

[Respekt_III]

Relax, it's all good fun. We're not gonna get anywhere near Mbappe, nor Haaland anyway.

I'm relaxed.

As much as I want halaand I wouldn't take either of them at this point in time with the $ being quoted. we are not in a financial position to be risking the club.

Ive been openly vocal on big money signings as they are imo often not worth it.

 

[Joan]

Most winning teams have their stars who are among better players in the world. Including Liverpool and Bayern who are this forum's new role models. Liverpool brought in Alisson and VVD for whom they paid either record fees or close to, then there were Salah, Mane, and Firmino. Bayern developed some of the best players in the world in their respective positions but also heavily relied on Lewa.

How you get your stars is another matter but signing the right one could speed up our rebuilding process significantly. High price doesn't automatically mean failure either, even if there've been plenty of such cases.

For a financially healthy club, 300m package for Haaland seems an acceptable risk and I'm sure Barca would offer the same if in position.

 

[Respekt_III]

Mbappe was always better player. Only thing Dembele had more in his locker of was tubi grips.

No he wasn't.
I'll rephrase - Dembele had the higher potential.

 

[JamDav1982]

No he wasn't.

He was and proved it since.

Barca wanted a winger but Mbappe was the better bet and player.

 

[Joan]

Barca would've signed Mbappe if wasn't rejected. He was always going to be the better of the two.

 

[Respekt_III]

He was and proved it since.

Barca wanted a winger but Mbappe was the better bet and player.

Let's agree to disagree, either way both players were bought for their potential for well above their worth.

 

[khaled_a_d]

https://twitter.com/citykako/status/1508558305140129794
An interesting read on Halaand and his fit in City

 

[jamrock]

https://twitter.com/citykako/status/1508558305140129794
An interesting read on Halaand and his fit in City

Lost all credibility when he end with harry kane is the greatest most complete striker he has ever seen.

Some validish points about haaland & his touch and involvement in team play though.

 

[Birdy]

[MENTION=15262]serghei[/MENTION]: You like to reference Liverpools model, but they also got van Dijk for close to 90m. That's a galactico defender if I have ever seen one (irrelevant that we sponsored him).

That's where you get it totally wrong.
VVD was never a 'galactico' even more the time he was transferred in at Liverpool.
Do you know how low wage he was getting first contract at Liverpool in 2018? around 100,000 per week, more or less 5m per year

You are conflating the concept of a top player with that of a galactico, like many others here to surreptitiously sneak the 'everyone is buying galacticos' line, which is 100% untrue. If every top player was a Galactico, every top club would have quite a lot of them, but that ain't the case.
Galactico model is a model, first and foremost.
A model that has miserably failed and continues to fail around, while other models like Livepool's and Bayern's show the way of how to do it, but get overlooked

 

[Birdy]

https://twitter.com/citykako/status/1508558305140129794
An interesting read on Halaand and his fit in City

Top read!
When I questioned his fit in the football Xavi is teaching, I listed many of these points, like his bad technique, link-up, dribbling

But it's even more evident when wondering how he would fit at City.
He will def. make City of 2020-22 worse as a team, brining down their level of cohesion and control of a game to compensate that with qualities they probably don't even need!

 

[topt]

Most winning teams have their stars who are among better players in the world. Including Liverpool and Bayern who are this forum's new role models. Liverpool brought in Alisson and VVD for whom they paid either record fees or close to, then there were Salah, Mane, and Firmino. Bayern developed some of the best players in the world in their respective positions but also heavily relied on Lewa.

How you get your stars is another matter but signing the right one could speed up our rebuilding process significantly. High price doesn't automatically mean failure either, even if there've been plenty of such cases.

For a financially healthy club, 300m package for Haaland seems an acceptable risk and I'm sure Barca would offer the same if in position.

what you need to have to be a winning club is a wage structure, if not it creates tensions in the squad,you can get away with it if you have a really ATG like Messi but otherwise it wont work.

 

[El Gato]

Injured again I heard

This is getting a bit weird TBH

 

[Andresito]

Injured again I heard

This is getting a bit weird TBH

Just read they were going hard on him with the tackles. Subbed off at halftime with 3 others. Probably nothing serious.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Subpar half against Leipzig, 0:2 behind.

Dortmund is such a pathetic team, really. Any time there is a glimmer of hope of them trying to give Bayern a headache, they never fail to disappoint to disappoint.

 

[Morten]

Subpar half against Leipzig, 0:2 behind.

Dortmund is such a pathetic team, really. Any time there is a glimmer of hope of them trying to give Bayern a headache, they never fail to disappoint to disappoint.

Relying on Dortmund for anything is pointless, they were supposed to be one of the favorites for the EL as well, but lost in the first round to some team from Scottland.