9 | Erling Haaland - 2024/25

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Blue Maverick said:
What Bernardo comments?
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100 percent agree. I think we have problems for months and you can Haaland isn’t arsed atm abd I think after these two games we will see some players voicing unhappiness. If he hadn’t signed that contract id say Haaland will be in his way which will be a shame as all we need to do is play to his strengths and that is all in pep for trying to reinvent him .
 
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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There's actually something called credit in the bank though. If I remember correctly, Pep has been here for about 9 years and during that time he has won the PL 6 times and gave us our only UCL title, I do believe if he was just a little bit more practical, we would have 2 more UCL titles but Pep literally made us winners. So Yes, he has some credit.

As far as I'm concerned I would be happy without a trophy next season as long as I see a clear cut plan for a proper rebuild from the ground up, similar to the new crop of players at Barcelona.

The lack of a rebuild plan is the only issue I have with Pep right now, bringing in players like Grealish, Philips, Kovacic, Nunes, holding on to the likes of Kyle and Bernie for waaaay to long, bringing Gundo back, letting Palmer go, To me all of these showed that Pep at some point felt like his time here was coming to an end so he lost interest in playing the long game.
 
SiMCFC said:
I love the bloke to bits for the treble season but in hindsight I do wish we had decided to build the team around Alavarez instead. Let's see what next season brings.
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I miss Alvarez, knew I would, but.......he had won everything possible at such a young age, and a new challenge he sought ended up happening unfortunately, but then City would say they'd 82m good reasons to allow it to happen.

Alvarez did not want to play second fiddle, so fair play to him

Oh by the way he'd have took that pen Saturday as well, and probably scored.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
“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.
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If we’re questioning Haalands commitment, the players will too. Add to that his extortionate salary. There will inevitably be resentment.
Opening remark from Silva clearly referring to EH bottling it.
 
Txiki Txiki Bang Bang said:
There's actually something called credit in the bank though. If I remember correctly, Pep has been here for about 9 years and during that time he has won the PL 6 times and gave us our only UCL title, I do believe if he was just a little bit more practical, we would have 2 more UCL titles but Pep literally made us winners. So Yes, he has some credit.

As far as I'm concerned I would be happy without a trophy next season as long as I see a clear cut plan for a proper rebuild from the ground up, similar to the new crop of players at Barcelona.

The lack of a rebuild plan is the only issue I have with Pep right now, bringing in players like Grealish, Philips, Kovacic, Nunes, holding on to the likes of Kyle and Bernie for waaaay to long, bringing Gundo back, letting Palmer go, To me all of these showed that Pep at some point felt like his time here was coming to an end so he lost interest in playing the long game.
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Pep and Txiki oversaw that 'lack of a rebuild'. They let it happen. They weren't planning for when they left, they were just letting things happen. When Pep was 'persuaded' (by £20m+ per year) to extend his contract did the panic buys arrive.

Pep wasn't interested in leaving a great squad. He had one and he wore it out. The writing was on the wall when he showed very strong interest in signing the 'circus players' Ronaldo and Messi, and when the likes of Cucarella, Bellingham and Rice didn’t want to come to City.

Pep only started 'planning' around the time his wife bombed him out and he had a few understandable meltdowns. City became a disorganised mess.

A perfect storm, largely of his own making, that his superiors in the City Group don't seem to have noticed because they leave all the football side of business to him and Txiki. Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

Pep should have left after winning the CL.
 
Haaland could have been missing them all week in training and Marmoush banging them in. I’m not sure he did shit himself but I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough
 
Looking at this thread I realize our fall off. When haaland doesn’t score we don’t score at all and if he doesn’t score „ we don’t play to his strength“
 
Dobsy said:
Still not ok.

He's making the most money, he's the star striker. The buck stops with him. It's his assignment to make that ball cross that line. He needs to figure it out, not delegate it.
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Striking a dead ball is not the same as being a striker. Aguero didn't take penalties when Yaya and Balotelli were at the club. There's plenty of forwards who don't take penalties.
 
BillyShears said:
Striking a dead ball is not the same as being a striker. Aguero didn't take penalties when Yaya and Balotelli were at the club. There's plenty of forwards who don't take penalties.
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But Haaland does take them. He was seen as a specialist penalty taker when he arrived, and usually approached them like a bull to a red rag.

Yaya and Balotelli wouldn't back out, ever. Neither would Francis Lee... he was probably spinning in his grave on Saturday.

Haaland seems to have lost all that swagger abd confidence in himself that made him a great scorer of outrageous goals

He absolutely bottled it in an FA cup final. I don't see why anyone would have the same confidence in him any more.
 
borassic said:
Haaland could have been missing them all week in training and Marmoush banging them in. I’m not sure he did shit himself but I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough
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If anything is said, whatever 'comes out' will be a Pep sanctioned 'reason', i.e. nonsense dressed as a mix up of translation.

Haaland bottled it big time. Marmoush didn't. Easy as that.
 
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