Erling Haaland

[iniestaGOAT]

I have one word for this fool. Garbage.

Mods feel free to ban me if he ends up scoring higher than Lewandoski in their respective leagues.

This fool has a 5 goal head start now and will still fail.

G A R B A G E

 

[Birdy]

He scored 15 goals in 13 games in the CL with Dortmund. Why would he not be able to do that with a far superior team in Man City?

Most successful teams in the past have that 9 in the box that commands multicoverage and can score out of nowhere. City hasnt had that until now, and they also have 0 CL.

They didn't need an all around creative, link up 9 like Jesus the last few seasons. They needed a proven, consistent goal scorer like Halaand. They had Silva, Foden, De Bruyne, Sterling, Mahrez and all these players creating chances but not that one guy who they looked for to bang them all in. They have that now and they are clear favorites to me for CL.

He CAN'T score out of nowhere.
The definition of 'out of nowhere' is converting really low xG chances. Like Messi used to do consistently back in the day.
Haaland is the opposite: he converts big (xG) chances most of the times

I get your point, and I don't agree.
I don't think City lacked a 'specialist' finisher to make them win UCL. They had Aguero, who was that type, and much better than Haaland in tight spaces and the ability to score 'out of nowhere' .
But they didn't win it.
On the contrary, the closer they got was last 2 seasons (Final and semi-final), when they didn't play with a 9 but with false 9s and all the people you mention.

 

[Zidane82]

Airling* Missed opportunity

That was a goal ..

 

[BBZ8800]

Aguero shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence with Haaland, tbf

 

[Zidane82]

Aguero shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence with Haaland, tbf

One legend one soon to be legend ..

 

[BBZ8800]

Zlatan about Haaland: "I crown Haaland as the next Superstar in football. I like his style, the way he plays and most importantly the way he talks. He talks and delivers, that's how a footballer should be. I really like it."

Close the topic

 

[Horatio]

Stop trying to victimize yourself on every whim. Players look at more than just club prestige. He knew if he went to Man City he'd be undisputed starting striker. At Real you still have Benzema. With Bayern likely same as he probably heard internally Lewy was having a falling out with club?

[MENTION=18429]Morten[/MENTION]


So his father revealed in Haaland The Big Decision documentary that Karim Benzema was main reason he did not pick Madrid. They're biggest criterium was figuring out which team needed no.9 the most. Almost verbatim to what I said. Huge W for me.

 

[Temptation]

So his father revealed in Haaland The Big Decision documentary that Karim Benzema was main reason he did not pick Madrid. They're biggest criterium was figuring out which team needed no.9 the most. Almost verbatim to what I said. Huge W for me.

W. Makes sense tbf. Will go to Madrid in a few years I guess.

How many more years do you reckon Benz has??

 

[serghei]

Zlatan about Haaland: "I crown Haaland as the next Superstar in football. I like his style, the way he plays and most importantly the way he talks. He talks and delivers, that's how a footballer should be. I really like it."

Close the topic

Zlatan... biggest underachiever of the last 20 years, because he thinks fast cars and ego are the pinnacle of football. Choose a smarter one.

 

[Porque]

[MENTION=18429]Morten[/MENTION]


So his father revealed in Haaland The Big Decision documentary that Karim Benzema was main reason he did not pick Madrid. They're biggest criterium was figuring out which team needed no.9 the most. Almost verbatim to what I said. Huge W for me.

We should have been higher on his list. Hindsight shows we went big in a new project and needed a top 9 to lead it.

But more importantly (for him) we would have been desperate enough to put a low enough exit clause to secure him unlike Madrid or PSG (lol).

3/4 years time and he would be dictating his next financial decision. Let's see how much City let him go for.

 

[DonAK]

We should have been higher on his list. Hindsight shows we went big in a new project and needed a top 9 to lead it.

But more importantly (for him) we would have been desperate enough to put a low enough exit clause to secure him unlike Madrid or PSG (lol).

3/4 years time and he would be dictating his next financial decision. Let's see how much City let him go for.

Tbh when we started discussions to sign him our team was looking quite bad lol

If we continue our rebuild and complete it well I'd imagine we would be right at the top of his list along with Madrid in 3-4 years if he decides to leave City.

 

[Porque]

Absolutely, but we would be looking at a (rightly) 1b release clause, while this year we may have agreed to something like 120-160m just to secure him and get back to the elite level.

 

[Temptation]

Zlatan about Haaland: "I crown Haaland as the next Superstar in football. I like his style, the way he plays and most importantly the way he talks. He talks and delivers, that's how a footballer should be. I really like it."

Close the topic

Well there's one reason not to rate Haaland.

This clown still thinks he's funny. Embarrassing way of talking at 40.

If only he focussed as much on his game he wouldn't fall short at the highest level and wouldn't have to run away to France and US to statpad.

 

[BBZ8800]

Well there's one reason not to rate Haaland.

This clown still thinks he's funny. Embarrassing way of talking at 40.

If only he focussed as much on his game he wouldn't fall short at the highest level and wouldn't have to run away to France and US to statpad.

He had only 6 serious attempts in a CL.
2005, 06 with Juve.
2007, 08, 09 with Inter.
2010 with Barca.

Everything after that were average CL teams.

For example, Lewandowski played for 8 seasons at Bayern (much stronger than Juve or Inter) who were always in top 3-4 clubs in Europe and managed to win it only once in 8 attempts.

Not a super glorious CL carreer either if we want to be honest.

So, they both suck.
But Zlatan is at least funny

 

[jamrock]

Nah lewa has scored the 3rd most goals in the CL, never in any clutch moments, so he's the 3rd best behind those two.