9 | Erling Haaland - 2024/25

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decmancity said:
The fucking 30mins it took for the pen to be confirmed didnt help. Did Haaland not have one like this a while back, he was stood about with the ball for ages and then eventually took it and missed.

We can argue it should mean fuck all but it definitely has an impact imo.

Perhaps the plan all along was for Haaland to look like he was taking it and then give it Omar last minute, some mind games with Henderson.
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I’m not sure we’re organised enough for such skulduggery, but you’re right on the time taken between decision and kick.
 
Goater101 said:
That’s great knowing our 500k a week 10 year contract striker doesn’t fancy a penalty. Massive concern imo
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Something seems off, not just with Haaland but with the team in general. None of us really know what goes on behind the scenes. Let's hope we get in the CL and it gets sorted over the summer ready for next season.
 
samuelyeboah said:
haaland? movement? Im sorry but what fucking game are you watching? He hasn't been making any movements. one of the most static center forwards i've ever seen. bollocks.
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To be fair to him, half a dozen times yesterday, he turned and made a run off the back of the defender and all it needed was someone with the vision to pop the ball over the crowd of players for him to run onto. But no, side pass after side pass. No wonder he gets cheesed off and his body language looks off.
 
normskih said:
To be fair to him, half a dozen times yesterday, he turned and made a run off the back of the defender and all it needed was someone with the vision to pop the ball over the crowd of players for him to run onto. But no, side pass after side pass. No wonder he gets cheesed off and his body language looks off.
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what? I don't recall a single time where something like this happened. he absolutely does not make runs off the back of defenders. It just doesn't happen whatsoever. It used to happen. but ALL he does at the moment is stand in the wrong spot in the box and hope balls magically get to him.
 
5 Hit Gibbon said:
Something seems off, not just with Haaland but with the team in general. None of us really know what goes on behind the scenes. Let's hope we get in the CL and it gets sorted over the summer ready for next season.
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There no “seems” about it now after Bernardo’s comments. He’s pretty much confirmed we have a fractured, toxic dressing room.
 
Dr Jacoby said:
Despite his ridiculous numbers, I still don’t believe our set-up gets the best out of him. I think he’d score more at Liverpool.
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Way way more

they come to goal scoring chances like drugged, the amount of random goals they score in the last 7 years is abnormal (e g Origi vs Everton), but nothing is accidental. they don't hesitate for a second to attack the goal, they react quickly and shoot immediately. they almost don't have a positional attack. in that chaos, Haaland would have scored 60 goals per season

Same goes with Barca,Real and PSG
 
mexico1970 said:
What puzzles me about this risk averse football is that it wont be changed even if that risk is mitigated by us being dry bummed by every shit team on the planet.

It's a weird one.

Haaland is good for the clubs profile, if I am honest I would rather get rid of Pep than have to replace most of the squad, controversial I know but there it is.
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There's far too much sentiment around Pep on BM. As far as I'm concerned there's no such thing as 'credit in the bank' for past success, and it's already well past time to get his successor lined up and ready to start next season.

Problem is that the owners aren't football people, they're purely businessmen. They imported the Barcelona gang to set everything up for Pep in advance, and threw money at him to recreate the success they had in Spain.

As I see it, the City Group took their eye off the ball and panicked into giving Pep another 2 years because their succession plan for coach is non-existent. The whole set up has been complacent for two or three years.

Haaland is the tip of a very big iceberg. He's just the most obvious disappointment this season. I think he'd thrive under a more positive coach than Pep, who's never going to admit his system has been shot to shit this season.
 
Blue Maverick said:
What Bernardo comments?
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“Something has to change. You learn who you can go to war with, first of all. Because it's in the bad moments that you see who the real ones are.

It's a really, really bad season for us. Something has to change next year. It's for the big bosses to decide. I have my opinion but definitely something needs to change when you don't perform at this level.”

In City squads of past years you’d never hear a player saying there’s people in the squad you couldn’t go to war with. It was always the opposite, they’d comment on how close everyone is, how everyone I pulling in the same direction, working hard. We don’t get comments like that any more. It seems we have huge issues within this squad and splits within the dressing room.
 
Lavinda Past said:
There's far too much sentiment around Pep on BM. As far as I'm concerned there's no such thing as 'credit in the bank' for past success, and it's already well past time to get his successor lined up and ready to start next season.

Problem is that the owners aren't football people, they're purely businessmen. They imported the Barcelona gang to set everything up for Pep in advance, and threw money at him to recreate the success they had in Spain.

As I see it, the City Group took their eye off the ball and panicked into giving Pep another 2 years because their succession plan for coach is non-existent. The whole set up has been complacent for two or three years.

Haaland is the tip of a very big iceberg. He's just the most obvious disappointment this season. I think he'd thrive under a more positive coach than Pep, who's never going to admit his system has been shot to shit this season.
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I think people are far too attached to players and Pep. This is Man City FC not Foden Fc or whoever. The system is horrible. We all agree that we’re tired of watching the same thing. You can put on the game blindfold yourself and predict how we’ll play. I’ll give him the best possible players. Idc about what about Foden or Savio etc I would get Wirtz Rodrygo Cherki Reinjders Nouri Munoz Chevalier. And the let cream rise to the top. If we’re still back her a season later and missing top 4 playing bad football then he leaves and we get a new manager, Nagelsmann or someone. If players get fed up with not playing but we’re winning trophies sell them. There’s many footballers out there.
 
samuelyeboah said:
what? I don't recall a single time where something like this happened. he absolutely does not make runs off the back of defenders. It just doesn't happen whatsoever. It used to happen. but ALL he does at the moment is stand in the wrong spot in the box and hope balls magically get to him.
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We will agree to differ, then.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
There no “seems” about it now after Bernardo’s comments. He’s pretty much confirmed we have a fractured, toxic dressing room.
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Sell all the „ uncs“ . Time for a new era. Sell them or even loan them out. Only Kovacic was consistent this season.
 
samuelyeboah said:
what? I don't recall a single time where something like this happened. he absolutely does not make runs off the back of defenders. It just doesn't happen whatsoever. It used to happen. but ALL he does at the moment is stand in the wrong spot in the box and hope balls magically get to him.
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There's an element of truth to this IMO. If you look at Haaland's first record goal scoring season with us, he was making those runs & more importantly KDB more often than not was finding him.

Its obvious with KDB not on the pitch/in decline he's stopped making these runs as frequently simply because we really don't have any type of creator for Haaland. Coupled with us playing this possession based football, Haaland mentally doesn't seem to really make those runs because he knows no one is going to find him. Most top footballers do talk about this whereby if they have a connection with other players, they will already begin to make a run or get into space because he knows X will try to find him.

Probably the best highlight of this on Saturday was when we had a young, bright eyed Echeverri who picked up the ball, passed it & made a dash forward past the defender expecting the ball to be played through. Little did the youngster know his run was in vain, as we inevitably played the ball back to keep possession, as if we were leading the game by a couple of goals.

As much as I think its the right decision to not extend KDB's contract, it's terrifying to note there wasn't a single other player out there on Saturday who I was confident could create a ball for Haaland to run onto. We desperately need midfield playmakers out there for next season, otherwise it looks like its going to be another hard-slog for any striker in sky blue.
 
jollylescott said:
I'll be honest. We looked a more cohesive team when he was out injured.
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Yet we won the treble when we didn't have a handful of washed up players in midfield and he banged in 50 odd goals and broke records.

Haaland isn't the problem in terms of the big picture , far from it.

Get rid of players on the slide that can no longer create and get some good young talent in to go along with the likes of Haaland.
 
samuelyeboah said:
what? I don't recall a single time where something like this happened. he absolutely does not make runs off the back of defenders. It just doesn't happen whatsoever. It used to happen. but ALL he does at the moment is stand in the wrong spot in the box and hope balls magically get to him.
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Exactly. No bursting near post runs a la aguero.
No peeling off the defender. Its just… stand there and wait.
Hes not helping the absolute lack of balls into the box.
 
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