9 | Erling Haaland - 2023/24

[meeesh]

Scoring isn’t the problem. It’s what makes this whole thing so weird to discuss. But he’s missing waaaaay too many chances, and I don’t think that’s down to Kev.

Sure Kev will put more on a plate for him, but there is no way he should be missing this many sitters

They’ll come, problem is as the saying goes he’s made a rod for his own back with what happened last season, and I’m still convinced he will score loads before end of season with kev supplying good 5 or 6 of them

 

[Blue Maverick]

He will start firing when KDB is back

Shouldn’t have to rely on him, Kev won’t be here forever, the most two seasons then who supplies him, he should be putting the sitters away.

 

[hilts]

The conundrum of a striker with ridiculous stats being a bit shit at actually finishing.

 

[TrentGrisham]

Wtf. It's the defending that's costing us not Haaland

Breaking: the highest-paid player in the league gets held to higher standards.

 

[meeesh]

Shouldn’t have to rely on him, Kev won’t be here forever, the most two seasons then who supplies him, he should be putting the sitters away.

Neither will Haaland, in fact I’ll be brave enough to say it now, they will both leave us at the same time, kev retiring and Haaland to wherever

 

[samuelyeboah]

Love him. just love him to bits, probably my favorite city player at the moment. It sounds obvious but it kind of isn't.

 

[don84]

Haaland's rage after ref blunder







"With the score 3-3, Haaland had picked up the ball almost at the halfway line where he was fouled and fell to the floor for a split second.

However, the 23-year-old wanted to play on and immediately got to his feet and played a pass over the top for the on-running Jack Grealish with the ref initially playing advantage.

But as the ball left his feet and headed towards Grealish, who had scored City's third goal of the game in the 81st minute, behind the Spurs defence Hooper pulled the game back to the earlier foul.

Haaland and his City team-mates were furious with the decision and protested the call."


How is it possible for a ref to do this, unless it's intentional to prevent a possible goal?

 

[ono]

He was poor today no doubt.

2 sitters and he seems to be missing at least one sitter a game now.

Got robbed with that pass from hooper though. Bald ****.

His link up play is great now though. His passing is brilliant at times.

He made a great assist for Jack, but I maintain he should have come off.

He's physically not built for it, but he's so slow off of the ball that I feel like the rest of the team is trying to overcompensate for him. When he's not putting the ball in the net, he becomes a net-negative. Pep's refusal to ever sub him is borderline pathetic,

Bollocks. His link up play was great. Worked his arse off too.

 

[Axel Freed]

Breaking: the highest-paid player in the league gets held to higher standards.

He’s not though is he, you’ve just made that up

 

[MarsLlama]

A really bad miss, but also got a great assist. Not the problem in this team at all.