9 | Erling Haaland - 2022/23 Performances

[MarsLlama]

Have you watched Pedri?

Yeah. Very good midfielder, nothing worth trading one of the best strikers in the world for. If we want a good midfielder there are loads of places to get one without giving up Haaland.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Was wondering with Haalands age could he win both pfa young player and pfa player of the year?

Despite his eye watering amount of goals, I’d have Rodri and Stones ahead of him for our Player of the Season, never mind anyone from an Arsenal.

Haaland only had 16 touches of the ball against Wolves the other day, Kalvin Phillips had more touches and he only came on for 13 minutes. Haaland had 20 at Old Trafford the other week.

You can’t be the best player in a league being so uninvolved in a game.

He might go down as the best goalscorer anyone has seen since Jimmy Greaves though.

 

[ford7]

 

[braut]

What are the metrics to decide "the best player"?

 

[FantasyIreland]

Despite his eye watering amount of goals, I’d have Rodri and Stones ahead of him for our Player of the Season, never mind anyone from an Arsenal.

Haaland only had 16 touches of the ball against Wolves the other day, Kalvin Phillips had more touches and he only came on for 13 minutes. Haaland had 20 at Old Trafford the other week.

You can’t be the best player in a league being so uninvolved in a game.

He might go down as the best goalscorer anyone has seen since Jimmy Greaves though.

Both Rodri and Stones are more essential to our most cohesive football IMO,Haaland,as mad as it sounds,isn't.

That's not to say i wouldn't have him in it ;-)

 

[blueparrot]

Rubbish nonsense.

Haaland is by far the biggest reason why Mam City still have a chance to win Premier League this season in spite of defensive issues as well as several players being out of form. Haaland has won games & bailed out Man City from losing games with his clutch goals.

Speaking about UCL, I guess Aguero and Tevez were never really valuable for Man City as they (very rarely) came clutch in UCL knockout stage?

This is the problem when people are obsessed by a single player ,they lose all perspective of more nuanced posts and views.
PS What the fuck does came clutch mean?

 

[p.taker]

Exactly this - Haaland isn’t scoring goals the team wouldn’t without him like Tevez or Aguero used to, he’s simply absorbed a larger share of the goals we score by default. The real test of his true value will come in the Champions League knockout games - see if he can be decisive when it actually matters.

Worst 2nd post ever?

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Rubbish nonsense.

Haaland is by far the biggest reason why Mam City still have a chance to win Premier League this season in spite of defensive issues as well as several players being out of form. Haaland has won games & bailed out Man City from losing games with his clutch goals.

Speaking about UCL, I guess Aguero and Tevez were never really valuable for Man City as they (very rarely) came clutch in UCL knockout stage?

I agree with the spirit of what you're saying - if not quite the way you frame it. We have played badly in general throughout November and the start of Jan. Lack of pace in the build up, sloppy misplaced passes, defensive errors, lack of incisiveness. If you look at our dirge of clinical finishing last year, there's no way we create enough chances to score goals playing like that. Sure, it's a different game if you swap him out and we get another player who comes deeper and gets more involved. But at times this year we've struggled to get into the final third, so I don't see how that helps. The problem has been much further down the pitch.

I think it's no exaggeration to suggest we could be worrying about a Champions League place if it weren't for his 25 goals. He has overperformed his xG by a significant margin, scoring goals from scraps at times when, frankly, we looked like we couldn't score if we were out there all week.

 

[Magz]

Despite his eye watering amount of goals, I’d have Rodri and Stones ahead of him for our Player of the Season, never mind anyone from an Arsenal.

Haaland only had 16 touches of the ball against Wolves the other day, Kalvin Phillips had more touches and he only came on for 13 minutes. Haaland had 20 at Old Trafford the other week.

You can’t be the best player in a league being so uninvolved in a game.

He might go down as the best goalscorer anyone has seen since Jimmy Greaves though.

He scored a hattrick and you're stilled worried about his number of touches? How many touches is are necessary to be considered the best?

 

[jimharri]

Despite his eye watering amount of goals, I’d have Rodri and Stones ahead of him for our Player of the Season, never mind anyone from an Arsenal.

Haaland only had 16 touches of the ball against Wolves the other day, Kalvin Phillips had more touches and he only came on for 13 minutes. Haaland had 20 at Old Trafford the other week.

You can’t be the best player in a league being so uninvolved in a game.

He might go down as the best goalscorer anyone has seen since Jimmy Greaves though.

Careful. You'll be accused of disliking him.

 

[Cotton Weave Blue]

He’s not ripped a team apart on his own yet. Just wait.

Crazy return already and a lot more to come.

He will want to be THE MAN against Arsenal home and away.

 

[sir baconface]

This is the problem when players are obsessed by single player ,they lose all perspective of more nuanced posts and views.
PS What the fuck does came clutch mean?

Which “players are obsessed by a single player” FFS?

If you’re going to insult people, maybe it’s best you don’t commit the same mistakes yourself.

 

[Gumzy97]

I don't understand this argument about him not being player of the season, I've seen the arguments about he has less touches, he scores tap ins etc other strikers have more to their game etc etc

He's a striker what is a strikers job? to put the ball in the net I don't care if he scores 30 yard screamers or 6 yard tap ins a goals a goal. He's got 25 of them already. If he continues at this rate he's going to hit 40 odd breaking record after record. 4 hattricks away from Messi's record of most hattricks in a single season.

If he ends the season with 45 goals smashing the goal record and matches or gets close to the Messi record for Hattricks he's player of the year. Even a top 3 balon dor season

 

[sir baconface]

Bring back Paul Dickov.

Now there’s a player who could run around a lot.

 

[El_george]

The biggest problem with Haaland: he has totally ruined fantasy football league.

Everyone has him and has him as captain, its basically made it a 10-man game.

I got him in a draft version of fantasy football and am totally pi$$ing it, but I don't think anyone else in my mini-league bothers anymore, as they know I am going to win.

If Arsenal win the PL and we have a striker getting 40-50+ goals, there is something wrong (typical City springs to mind!).

 

[Lenny_The_Blue]

He’s not ripped a team apart on his own yet. Just wait.

Crazy return already and a lot more to come.

He will want to be THE MAN against Arsenal home and away.

Not sure what you mean to be honest.

If ripping teams apart is him getting the ball in midfield, dribble past a few defenders and bang it top bins - then I don’t think you’ll see this very often, if at all tbh.

He relies on service from the rest of the team hence why a lot of his goals have been from close range or tap ins as people like to call them.

 

[Akira]

He’s not ripped a team apart on his own yet. Just wait.

Crazy return already and a lot more to come.

He will want to be THE MAN against Arsenal home and away.

Didn't he get like 3 goals 2 assists in the 6-3 against the Rags? He tore them a new one there.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I don't understand this argument about him not being player of the season, I've seen the arguments about he has less touches, he scores tap ins etc other strikers have more to their game etc etc

He's a striker what is a strikers job? to put the ball in the net I don't care if he scores 30 yard screamers or 6 yard tap ins a goals a goal. He's got 25 of them already. If he continues at this rate he's going to hit 40 odd breaking record after record. 4 hattricks away from Messi's record of most hattricks in a single season.

If he ends the season with 45 goals smashing the goal record and matches or gets close to the Messi record for Hattricks he's player of the year. Even a top 3 balon dor season

In support of this view back in 1986/87 season when Clive Allen smashed 49 goals in one season for Spurs,he was voted both Players and Football writers Player of the season...

 

[MarsLlama]

We need to let go of the idea that only a Ronaldinho-esque dribbler can be considered the best player in the world. Personally I think we've seen enough from Haaland to know that his lack of touches isn't a question of ability.

Kane is one of the most well-rounded strikers in the world, and how often does a cross into the penalty area go untouched because Kane was too deep to reach it? Or even because Kane was the man crossing it himself.

I think Haaland's limited involvement is by design, so I'm not about to mark him down too harshly for it.

 

[Magz]

I was discussing with someone on reddit and just for fun I looked up Haaland's stats for club and NT since joining Salzburg.

He has 203 goals and assists (167 goals, 36 assists) in 165 matches. He's played 10826 mins, which means 65 min per goal and 53 mins per g+a. It's just ridiculous.