Erling Haaland

[Porque]

So Bayern have all but tied up the future replacement of Lewandowski with Dortmund set to sign Adeyemi for 38m in place of Haaland.

 

[Zidane82]

So City get Haaland , Real get Mbappe and we get fecking Lukaku

 

[Messi983]

We won't get Lukaku.

 

[te amo barca]

If he chooses City he's an overrated bum

 

[Devils]

Pep gets his shiny new toy.

SMH.

 

[Porque]

If Pep doesn't win the CL now then he should move back to New York and start learning Chinese.

Still thinks he needs 10 more players before they can compete admittedly.

 

[malvolio]

He'll come to Spain sooner or later anyway. Max 4-5 years in England.

Not unless he flops. Raiola out of the way means that he will probably opt for a saner agent. And City/PSG don't sell unless they want to.

 

[malvolio]

If Pep doesn't win the CL now then he should move back to New York and start learning Chinese.

Still thinks he needs 10 more players before they can compete admittedly.

CL is about luck right now for Pep. He's been knocking at the door of a CL win for the past few years.

Pep could leave this Summer, a guy like Pochettino or even some bigger bum comes in and wins it first try. See Di Matteo.

 

[Porque]

CL is about luck right now for Pep. He's been knocking at the door of a CL win for the past few years.

Pep could leave this Summer, a guy like Pochettino or even some bigger bum comes in and wins it first try. See Di Matteo.

The theory is that he missed that prolific striker who could pull out some goals from nothing to get through the "unlucky". Put a false 9 in place of Benzuma at Madrid over the two legs versus Chelsea and City and they would have been out.

If the final piece in the puzzle can't give Pep that margin then it will never happen.

 

[malvolio]

The theory is that he missed that prolific striker who could pull out some goals from nothing to get through the "unlucky". Put a false 9 in place of Benzuma at Madrid over the two legs versus Chelsea and City and they would have been out.

If the final piece in the puzzle can't give Pep that margin then it will never happen.

Well, they do get in front of goal quite often and don't convert enough in those CL KOs eliminations. See how they were mugged at the beginning of the season away at PSG.

So yeah, a goal machine should be the last piece of the puzzle.

 

[Birdy]

The theory is that he missed that prolific striker who could pull out some goals from nothing to get through the "unlucky". Put a false 9 in place of Benzuma at Madrid over the two legs versus Chelsea and City and they would have been out.

If the final piece in the puzzle can't give Pep that margin then it will never happen.

This theory is so flawed...

First of all, Erling usually scores tap-ins and oneVones rather than specials 'out of nothing' goals

Then, remove one cog from the wheel of total control and domination that City are, and you have less control and less domination.
Sure enough domination still to beat the shit out of the likes of Burnleys, Aston Villas, Leicesters, Evertons and the like in EPL
but maybe less than enough to do so against the best teams in Europe like Liverpool Chelsea Bayern and others

This means that dear Erling will pad his stats against the common EPL fodder, and will be mister invisible in the difficult CL knockouts or the derbys of EPL

Actually, this transfer is so shockingly against the way Pep changed City since 2020 (towards less attack and more control), that I am really doubting he took the decision in a sane mind.
Compare him to Kane - the target of last summer- and its day and night.
Kane would fit like a glove into Pep's logic of more control, as he drops back and plays like one of the greatest 10s in the sport

 

[Luftstalag14]

This theory is so flawed...

First of all, Erling usually scores tap-ins and oneVones rather than specials 'out of nothing' goals

Then, remove one cog from the wheel of total control and domination that City are, and you have less control and less domination.
Sure enough domination still to beat the shit out of the likes of Burnleys, Aston Villas, Leicesters, Evertons and the like in EPL
but maybe less than enough to do so against the best teams in Europe like Liverpool Chelsea Bayern and others

This means that dear Erling will pad his stats against the common EPL fodder, and will be mister invisible in the difficult CL knockouts or the derbys of EPL

Actually, this transfer is so shockingly against the way Pep changed City since 2020 (towards less attack and more control), that I am really doubting he took the decision in a sane mind.
Compare him to Kane - the target of last summer- and its day and night.
Kane would fit like a glove into Pep's logic of more control, as he drops back and plays like one of the greatest 10s in the sport

Really? From my anecdotal experience of watching him (certainly not every game but enough), that doesn't seem to be the case at all. Do you have any stats to support that most goals he scored were tap-ins? One one one's yes (and kudos to him), and I too question how effective he will be at City which will have much less one-on-one's than he has had at Dortmund. That said, I think he can play linking up and score, we will have to see.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Great piece of business by Dortmund, money received from selling players is increasingly important for them as they use this to hedge the decline in other revenue streams. Adeyemi will be sold to Bayern or other elite clubs if he turns out good for them, and they will use the money to buy the next target to be sold in the future, the cycle never stops. They have become the most prominent selling club in Europe.

Don't expect Dortmund to ever challenge Bayern with this business model of theirs.

 

[Horatio]

Called it

 

[xXKonan]

Bald man gets what he wants.