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jrb said:
The article is from the '2nd of April'.

www.marca.com

Real Madrid have eyes on Tchouameni, Bellingham, Gravenberch, Wirtz...

Real Madrid are clear that signing Kylian Mbappe is their priority this summer, and bringing in Erling Haaland is an option that will be explored if it's possible. Then, the acad
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I don’t know if they’re just now translating it or simply recycling it, but even the caption says the cover is from January. They’re already running out of stories…
 
Kinkladze's crazy skills said:
People saying they have more confidence in the signing of Kane over Haaland, claiming he's more suited to our team or better for us somehow, wow...

That's adorable possibly if a 4 year old is innocently saying that cos he likes some goals he scored but from an adult that is complete drivel, that's like saying Blackburn should've signed Steve Bull over Alan Shearer, it's like hearing someone say they think Colin Calderwood looked a better player for Spurs at centreback than a young Sol Campbell, or like saying Chris Powell is better than Ashley Cole for England back in 2001 while proclaiming he is just an overrated Arsenal kid... "get Powell back in the team" none of those are even slightly correct.

I'm pointing out the difference in class here because it's the very same I'm not even exaggerating, if you honestly believe Kane is a better option than Haaland for us, or will be more of a danger to opponents and more of a help to teammates... then you must believed some or all of the above examples to have been true for their time, Haaland is way above Kane in terms of levels or what he'd offer us.

Either, A: you're trolling. B: you're Arry Kane trying to convince us all you're a better option. Or, C: your judgement of football is so incomprehensibly poor at this time at least, that you should honestly take a break before you think to yourself what was I thinking.
Maybe your brain has gone into overdrive we all have brain farts at times and you're clearly having one bigtime, or maybe it's simply cos you clearly know nowt about football.

Whatever the case you need some advice, so here it is...
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I'd prefer Haaland because of the age and much easier deal to do but let's not pretend that Harry Kane isn't the better footballer he's way ahead of Haaland in terms of an all round footballer and probably is the better fit for city at the moment.
 
Kinkladze's crazy skills said:
People saying they have more confidence in the signing of Kane over Haaland, claiming he's more suited to our team or better for us somehow, wow...

That's adorable possibly if a 4 year old is innocently saying that cos he likes some goals he scored but from an adult that is complete drivel, that's like saying Blackburn should've signed Steve Bull over Alan Shearer, it's like hearing someone say they think Colin Calderwood looked a better player for Spurs at centreback than a young Sol Campbell, or like saying Chris Powell is better than Ashley Cole for England back in 2001 while proclaiming he is just an overrated Arsenal kid... "get Powell back in the team" none of those are even slightly correct.

I'm pointing out the difference in class here because it's the very same I'm not even exaggerating, if you honestly believe Kane is a better option than Haaland for us, or will be more of a danger to opponents and more of a help to teammates... then you must believed some or all of the above examples to have been true for their time, Haaland is way above Kane in terms of levels or what he'd offer us.

Either, A: you're trolling. B: you're Arry Kane trying to convince us all you're a better option. Or, C: your judgement of football is so incomprehensibly poor at this time at least, that you should honestly take a break before you think to yourself what was I thinking.
Maybe your brain has gone into overdrive we all have brain farts at times and you're clearly having one bigtime, or maybe it's simply cos you clearly know nowt about football.

Whatever the case you need some advice, so here it is...
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Wow how patronising
 
People are really forcing themselves into an alternate reality where a fully-fit Harry Kane wouldn't absolutely incinerate the league in this City team. Haaland has the potential to do the same, or even better, and for a longer time, but there are still question marks around him that are exclamation points around Kane. At the end of the day, either of them would be brilliant purchases for us while our squad lacks that No.9 figure, and going for Haaland does not mean you have to fry your brain into a place where Kane is some Championship-level chump and not one of the best strikers the league has ever seen.

In any case, the Kane ship has sailed. Let's focus on winning trophies this season and then signing the Viking in the summer.
 
The Pandorica Opened said:
People are really forcing themselves into an alternate reality where a fully-fit Harry Kane wouldn't absolutely incinerate the league in this City team. Haaland has the potential to do the same, or even better, and for a longer time, but there are still question marks around him that are exclamation points around Kane. At the end of the day, either of them would be brilliant purchases for us while our squad lacks that No.9 figure, and going for Haaland does not mean you have to fry your brain into a place where Kane is some Championship-level chump and not one of the best strikers the league has ever seen.

In any case, the Kane ship has sailed. Let's focus on winning trophies this season and then signing the Viking in the summer.
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I am not sure there would be much difference between Kane and Haaland in our team. maybe if our opponent allow us to play an open game then maybe Kane's passing might make a difference but most of the time we play against parked buses with our striker inside the box in that case I might prefer Haaland for his physicality
 
NoFullNameThisTime. said:
I'd prefer Haaland because of the age and much easier deal to do but let's not pretend that Harry Kane isn't the better footballer he's way ahead of Haaland in terms of an all round footballer and probably is the better fit for city at the moment.
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He's EIGHT years further along in his career...I should hope so..but that doesn't mean Haaland is not the far better signing for this team at this time...
 
Kinkladze's crazy skills said:
People saying they have more confidence in the signing of Kane over Haaland, claiming he's more suited to our team or better for us somehow, wow...

That's adorable possibly if a 4 year old is innocently saying that cos he likes some goals he scored but from an adult that is complete drivel, that's like saying Blackburn should've signed Steve Bull over Alan Shearer, it's like hearing someone say they think Colin Calderwood looked a better player for Spurs at centreback than a young Sol Campbell, or like saying Chris Powell is better than Ashley Cole for England back in 2001 while proclaiming he is just an overrated Arsenal kid... "get Powell back in the team" none of those are even slightly correct.

I'm pointing out the difference in class here because it's the very same I'm not even exaggerating, if you honestly believe Kane is a better option than Haaland for us, or will be more of a danger to opponents and more of a help to teammates... then you must believed some or all of the above examples to have been true for their time, Haaland is way above Kane in terms of levels or what he'd offer us.

Either, A: you're trolling. B: you're Arry Kane trying to convince us all you're a better option. Or, C: your judgement of football is so incomprehensibly poor at this time at least, that you should honestly take a break before you think to yourself what was I thinking.
Maybe your brain has gone into overdrive we all have brain farts at times and you're clearly having one bigtime, or maybe it's simply cos you clearly know nowt about football.

Whatever the case you need some advice, so here it is...
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Opinionated and patronising view.

Your lack of understanding of how to build a top team shines through your argument.
Constructing a team of fantastic individuals will bring highs but also lows and doesn't create consistency - something you need to win the league.
Kane would fit our current set up perfectly and score shit loads of goals hence the arguments put forward by some. Haarland would probably score even more but it may take a period of adaptation from others in the team and lessen their impact (until Haarland adapts)
 
Kinkladze's crazy skills said:
People saying they have more confidence in the signing of Kane over Haaland, claiming he's more suited to our team or better for us somehow, wow...

That's adorable possibly if a 4 year old is innocently saying that cos he likes some goals he scored but from an adult that is complete drivel, that's like saying Blackburn should've signed Steve Bull over Alan Shearer, it's like hearing someone say they think Colin Calderwood looked a better player for Spurs at centreback than a young Sol Campbell, or like saying Chris Powell is better than Ashley Cole for England back in 2001 while proclaiming he is just an overrated Arsenal kid... "get Powell back in the team" none of those are even slightly correct.

I'm pointing out the difference in class here because it's the very same I'm not even exaggerating, if you honestly believe Kane is a better option than Haaland for us, or will be more of a danger to opponents and more of a help to teammates... then you must believed some or all of the above examples to have been true for their time, Haaland is way above Kane in terms of levels or what he'd offer us.

Either, A: you're trolling. B: you're Arry Kane trying to convince us all you're a better option. Or, C: your judgement of football is so incomprehensibly poor at this time at least, that you should honestly take a break before you think to yourself what was I thinking.
Maybe your brain has gone into overdrive we all have brain farts at times and you're clearly having one bigtime, or maybe it's simply cos you clearly know nowt about football.

Whatever the case you need some advice, so here it is...
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Ridiculous post
 
JewelZee said:
He's EIGHT years further along in his career...I should hope so..but that doesn't mean Haaland is not the far better signing for this team at this time...
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That's why i said I'd prefer Haaland but doesn't mean that in eight years Haaland will be as good as Kane all round.

I didn't say Kane was a better signing, I said Kane was a better fit for City at the moment because he's a better footballer.

Plus I only felt the need to post because of the idiotic post that said people who thought Kane was the better option didn't know anything about football.
 
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NoFullNameThisTime. said:
I'd prefer Haaland because of the age and much easier deal to do but let's not pretend that Harry Kane isn't the better footballer he's way ahead of Haaland in terms of an all round footballer and probably is the better fit for city at the moment.
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That's fair enough view but the other guy was calling Haaland overrated and that he isn't the better player, I honestly think he's a potentially better player for us from say the off next season just because, Haaland's runs will open spaces for our wide men and runners from the middle, whereas Kane is very limited in his off the ball movement he's not going to be stretching defences he'll be a less mobile guy in the box, he would score goals and defo add a threat but in my view he wouldn't create much more than Haaland would at City either, people fawn over Kane's passing ability and it's quite good some of the passes he's picked out, he's done we'll for himself and adapted his game well for Spurs needs, he also passes to players on the counter plays with players who have better attacking instinct's than Haaland's teammates, who boost his assist numbers and I'm not saying he wouldn't score goals or get assists too, if I had to choose either though he's not even close to Haaland's level even now for me and I hope he's not the answer.

Haaland's link up play is actually quite good with players close to him, his passing is alright too but he doesn't have the runners from deep alongside him, or ones that'll finish well Dortmund's have a massive over reliance on him being the spearhead of their quick counter attacks, that limits his link up with others and leads people to thinking he's a worse passer of the ball than he actually is, if he joins he'd take a short while just like Kane would but once he gets the hang of how we pass, he'd be bringing our more attacking runners from deep and wide men into games, yes Kane might be the better passer in some respects but in my view he wouldn't be better at making us more effective in the final third as a team.

We're playing a certain way due to the players we have and should we sign Haaland, he opens up so many different ways of playing we can play a more physical game up top, we can be more quick and aggressive style with one twos in our build up when needed, he adds the possibility of crosses being effective, he'll learn how to have great hold up play others in on goal, we'll have more ways of destroying the opposition and the more ways we have to beat teams the better... We basically have the false 9 and nowt else at the moment no other team in world football could do what we're doing right now with that, luckily we're so good with a false 9 that we're breezing through most but we've had some difficult times and you always have to adapt, other teams will have a better idea of how to best us next year if we standstill and for me Haaland potentially gives us a lot more than Kane.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
Wow how patronising
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My aim wasn't to be patronising just my take on them as options but I can defo see how it looks now.
In all honesty I was more trying to make him realise that Haaland should he sign would be far better than he actually thinks... He was calling him overrated and next to slagging him off literally dismissing Haaland as an inferior choice than Kane, not too dissimilar in to me in a sense and yeah it might've looked bad because mine is longer but I'm just saying it how it is, Haaland will achieve more in football than Harry Kane bar injuries or death and won't be as useless as many think, linking up with teammates I'm talking about and general passing for whatever club he joins, I'm wholly convinced Haaland is the more superior even now in Haaland's youth, also convinced that Haaland would improve us in the most important ways for our potential as a team and not in just an individual manner.
 
We have the most progressive and adaptive tactical manager in the world right now, pretty sure we'll be fine.

Sterling, Grealish, Foden, De Bryune & Possible Haaland are all players that draw double marking. Nevermind some teams just being beat before they leave the tunnel if we start out the blocks in the first few games.
 
JC2 said:
Opinionated and patronising view.

Your lack of understanding of how to build a top team shines through your argument.
Constructing a team of fantastic individuals will bring highs but also lows and doesn't create consistency - something you need to win the league.
Kane would fit our current set up perfectly and score shit loads of goals hence the arguments put forward by some. Haarland would probably score even more but it may take a period of adaptation from others in the team and lessen their impact (until Haarland adapts)
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I personally think Haaland would actually suit us better and it's not just about the individual point of view, I genuinely think Haaland would make us a far more effective team than Harry Kane would in what he'd actually offer us and give us more dimension in our play, was trying to make the other guy see that Haaland was not overrated as he claimed more than anything even if it came across in a bad way, don't be shocked Haaland could very easily rock up here or anywhere else next season and suprise everyone with his link up play.
 
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