9 | Erling Haaland - 2024/25

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Semper aggressus said:
He looks tired after a long, disappointing season and from being in and out of the team with injuries.

He’ll be back next season fully fit and firing. He’s the very least of our issues.

Get a decent attacking midfield behind him and he’ll be banging the goals in again.
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He’s scored 30 goals in 43 games for City this season. This is with kDB not being fit enough to deliver is usual amount of assists he brings each year, Foden who got player of the season last year and has fallen off a cliff, the metronome and balon d’or winning Rodri missing for 8 months and our wide men not hitting the heights that is expected at City.

If things get fixed on the field behind him and the side of him it will offer another opportunity for him to rattle in goals in 25/26.
 
Looked poor again last night imo. Slightly Better than he did vs Southampton and Pslace (very easy to do) but still nowhere near the level of a 500k a week striker. Laid off the ball well at times, but once again he’s aerial ability is embarrassing for a player that tall. Doesn’t even get close to crosses. Will struggle in a Pep side without KDB, who was a maverick when it came to Pep systems, didn’t care about losing possession, for KDB it was about finding Haaland early. For Haaland to work we NEED Wirtz, or a chance creating machine like Yamal. If we don’t get those type of players, he’a gonna be shit next season, and if our main focal point in attack is shite, we aint challenging.
 
What really baffles me is his poor ball touch outside the box, it's actually unbelievable. As if he's playing in crocs...

In comparison Nick Woltemade, 23, from Stuttgart is an inch taller and playing Messi like in possession. So it's not about height.

And Erling has to improve headers ffs. He really is anxious to bottle easy headers and instead takes his foot in acrobatic clownery, head high.
 
I would love to see an angry Haaland next season, an angry focused Haaland is scary. Saying that, honestly it feels like the fear factor is gone for him now. Looks like Most Big teams defenders don’t care if he plays or not. I remember in 2023 he was definitely top 3 player in the world imo, now his stock has fallen big time, he might not even be top 10 in the PL. and there’s not many great players in the PL currently like there was 5 years ago
 
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KDBPLGOAT said:
Looked poor again last night imo. Slightly Better than he did vs Southampton and Pslace (very easy to do) but still nowhere near the level of a 500k a week striker. Laid off the ball well at times, but once again he’s aerial ability is embarrassing for a player that tall. Doesn’t even get close to crosses. Will struggle in a Pep side without KDB, who was a maverick when it came to Pep systems, didn’t care about losing possession, for KDB it was about finding Haaland early. For Haaland to work we NEED Wirtz, or a chance creating machine like Yamal. If we don’t get those type of players, he’a gonna be shit next season, and if our main focal point in attack is shite, we aint challenging.
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Bollocks
 
KDBPLGOAT said:
I would love to see an angry Haaland next season, an angry focused Haaland is scary. Saying that, honestly it feels like the fear factor is gone for him now. Looks like Most Big teams defenders don’t care if he plays or not. I remember in 2023 he was definitely top 3 player in the world imo, now his stock has fallen big time, he might not even be top 10 in the PL. and there’s not many great players in the PL currently like there was 5 years ago
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His confidence is shot to pieces and he looks a shadow of what we signed .
 
KDBPLGOAT said:
Looked poor again last night imo. Slightly Better than he did vs Southampton and Pslace (very easy to do) but still nowhere near the level of a 500k a week striker. Laid off the ball well at times, but once again he’s aerial ability is embarrassing for a player that tall. Doesn’t even get close to crosses. Will struggle in a Pep side without KDB, who was a maverick when it came to Pep systems, didn’t care about losing possession, for KDB it was about finding Haaland early. For Haaland to work we NEED Wirtz, or a chance creating machine like Yamal. If we don’t get those type of players, he’a gonna be shit next season, and if our main focal point in attack is shite, we aint challenging.
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We are so slow with the ball in this tipi tabi crab shit style that no one is arsed if they play against us anymore but next season if we get the ball moving fast then big erl will cone good .
 
Great scoring record even in his worse season he scores 30 odd goals and he can improve so so much his running of the ball his movement in the box all can improved..
 
10 goals in first 5 appearances. We all thought he'd go on and break his record. 12 goals in 25 games since.

- Assists down too.
- Not scored a brace in the league since September
- still not showing up in big games
- missing pens
- giving up pens
- missing countless sitters
- He's lacking fight, urgency and most crucially his movement has been fucking wank.

He's never struck me as a confidence player so think it's just lack of form coupled with a system that doesn't suit. Hopefully big changes are coming and they are ones that pair well with his best self. Create space and rip balls across the box.
The Erling that was shoulder barging big CBs(dunk?) to the floor before sticking the ball away, let's get him back
 
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If Doku would have looked up and found Erling on any of the four occasions when he chose to shoot today, Big Erl could easily have been going home with the match ball.
Sign a decent creative player, put the ball in front of him to run onto and he’ll bang in another 30 league goals next season.
 
AshtonBlueMooner said:
If Doku would have looked up and found Erling on any of the four occasions when he chose to shoot today, Big Erl could easily have been going home with the match ball.
Sign a decent creative player, put the ball in front of him to run onto and he’ll bang in another 30 league goals next season.
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Hmm I came to the conclusion that Haaland is never at fault for being positioned wrong.. it’s always the doku‘s and everyone else who have to put in an easy tap in for King Haaland
 
Can’t do it on his own. Obviously. He’s not that kind of player. He’s not an Aguero or Henry who made their own chances.

He needs creativity around him rather than being the only focal point. If it’s the latter, he’s easily marked out the game.
 
He must still be injured because he's just not involved enough.

He was better 2nd half and scored a nice penalty, so hopefully he'll be back to his best next season.
 
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