Erling Haaland

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bhayes said:
Felix for berarndo is not a bad trade. I would be ok with that. If grealish moves into the #8 role and felix out to the wings, everything will balance out.
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Underestimating Bernardo's importance - maybe Grealish’s ability on the ball is similar but his bravery and work rate isn’t. Only way I’d let Bernie go is if he wanted to, no matter who came in for him (player wise, not club I mean)
 
LevyBee76 said:
If Pol Ballús says its on then that's come from one of the people closest to Pep, even if the deal is join us for 5 years then we'll let you join Madrid, by then we could've won everything twice over


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Even if it’s true wouldn’t worry me. Once players get here they love the club and very few have left over the past few years.
 
bigalfromeccles said:
Question and Im not trying to be controversial here, just interested in the thoughts of others . Consider the sort of football we play and how magnificent we can be without a number 9. (Is Haaland the answer?) (My Slight) worry arises from the amount of games we have been seeing lately where teams just play banks of 5 and 4 with 1 up front. I can understand people saying watching City is boring, (WAIT !) not City's fault at all! its because these teams are just sitting deeper and deeper and stifling our creativity. Bit of background, when i played (centre half) I loved a big striker to mark and when there wasnt one and it was a nippy (turn on a sixpence type of)forward i got moved about all over the place which I hated. Which is where I believe our success, sans BLUF type of striker stems from. So the question is... Would / will a 6ft 3in centre forward be as prolific, as he currently is, with the way most teams play against us.??
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I have a gut feeling that he'll not play as a traditional center forward (like Kane would have). Except for set pieces etc.

I think Haaland will play in Sterling's position. His primary assets will be speed and clinical finishes.

And I think he'll take a while to adapt to this role but be amazing once bedded in.
 
come-on-barney said:
Even if it’s true wouldn’t worry me. Once players get here they love the club and very few have left over the past few years.
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Alaba, Kroos, Modric, Benzama, Casemiro, Hazard - all these, the core, will need replacing by the time they start trying to lure Haaland from City. And they'll have to compete for talent at all of those position$ with all the big clubs. If they can create a more attractive option for him in a few yrs time, well, gotta hand it to them - will be a tough job well done.
 
just to keep the thread simmering, if it comes off, i would expect him to be scoring from all over, using his pace and strength, a battering-ram when it suits, a fox and a sniper, rolled into one. a three-trick warhorse.
Hyperbole of course, but i've no doubt he would strengthen any team, some greatly, maybe not City as much as most, but even so, not being the main threat could see him reach an even higher level. Transfer plans/hopes go hand-in-hand with tits- up outcomes, as City fans well know. Wonder what the Norwegian is for "FFS".
 
come-on-barney said:
Even if it’s true wouldn’t worry me. Once players get here they love the club and very few have left over the past few years.
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Including the big guy. Wasn't his original contract for 5 years, up to 2021? Then he extended up to next summer. And there seems to be guarded optimism that he might (repeat for the hard of hearing, might) extend again. Once this club gets in your blood, it's hard to turn your back on it.
 
samuelyeboah said:
a good way to think isn't "is haaland going to be scoring the goals we're already scoring" but rather "is haaland going to score different types of goals that we're lacking at the moment"
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What's the answer to that, though?

Part of the reason I was so hyped for Kane is that the answer was definitely yes. He knows how to score half-chances against compact EPL defences, he was a clinical pen-taker before we had Mahrez doing that, he was tall and strong on headers, and he could add long passes to any counter move we wanted to try. I'm not as convinced about Haaland adding new dimensions like that. He simply won't get the chance to score those goals where he shrugs off one defender, sprints at goal, and puts it away - there'll be six defenders now. He's not known for aerial ability, and as others have said, will Pep want to play enough counters for his speed and physicality to add goals for us there?

Don't get me wrong, I would be hyped as fuck for this signing. I do think he would add goals to our team, and complete the puzzle that Pep has been building. Make it happen. I want him. But I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't live up to expectations for a while, and I also don't think he's going to take us to some place of galactic dominance, because I'm just not sure if he adds different types of goals in the way that Kane/Ronaldo would have done. There's more than a few question marks around him, let's be honest, and the one you raise here is one of the biggest.
 
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