9 | Erling Haaland - 2023/24

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I thought he was poor tonight. Hopefully be better next week.

 

[Dicko69]

Most weeks I agree with this statement. Tonight, Real were happy to leave Rudiger on him 1v1 multiple times and from what I can remember, apart from one foul in the 2nd half, Rudiger bullied him. That’s not good enough. We can’t defend Haaland every game unconditionally. I love the bloke but he is a fucking unit (admittedly so is Rudiger) and he shouldn’t be making it so easy for the CB. We need more.

I get what your saying, it happened, rudiger bested him, but some of those battles happened from long balls deep into their half, which altered their gameplan, stretched them and prevented the way they usually control games and allowed us to assert our gameplan, especially 2nd half

 

[01cravend]

In order to be critical of the best striker in the world you at least need to show some minor understanding of the game.
As others have said, playing big Erl ties up two opposition defenders, releasing space for others.

How can anyone be critical of a young kid (he’s a man mountain but still a baby in football terms) who has scored so many goals in such a short time? In a team that coincidentally won the CL for the first time with him in it, to complete a treble and is in with a realistic shout of repeating the fete again this year?

I’ve said it for years but we genuinely have the very very worst fans in top flight football. I’d rather watch City amongst a pub full of United fans than City fans. They talk more sense than so many of our fans.

Admit it, you haven’t forgiven this club for becoming a giant have you? Do you pine for the halcyon days of yore, when we’d keep the ball in the corner when chasing a goal to avoid relegation? Did you cheer when Jamie Pollock juggled the ball into his own net, helping relegate us to the third tier? That was well cool. Fuck Haaland and all the trophies he’s helped us win.

Saying you can't criticise a performance because you deem him the best striker in the world and he was brilliant last season... you sound like a Taylor Swift fan.

ALL strikers tie up CBs. That's not an excuse for poor performances. Movement and interplay create space not standing on the far cb in hope of a cross.

 

[Blu1]

We are just not using him :-(

 

[bluedreamer]

In order to be critical of the best striker in the world you at least need to show some minor understanding of the game.
As others have said, playing big Erl ties up two opposition defenders, releasing space for others.

How can anyone be critical of a young kid (he’s a man mountain but still a baby in football terms) who has scored so many goals in such a short time? In a team that coincidentally won the CL for the first time with him in it, to complete a treble and is in with a realistic shout of repeating the fete again this year?

I’ve said it for years but we genuinely have the very very worst fans in top flight football. I’d rather watch City amongst a pub full of United fans than City fans. They talk more sense than so many of our fans.

Admit it, you haven’t forgiven this club for becoming a giant have you? Do you pine for the halcyon days of yore, when we’d keep the ball in the corner when chasing a goal to avoid relegation? Did you cheer when Jamie Pollock juggled the ball into his own net, helping relegate us to the third tier? That was well cool. Fuck Haaland and all the trophies he’s helped us win.

So you think he played well tonight do you?

 

[Kazzydeyna]

Genuine questions for the new generation of Haaland haters:

If City were to transfer list him:
A) how much would you sell
Him for? And
B) who do you think would come in for him?

If the answer to a) is >£100m and the answer to b) includes most or indeed all of the worlds top clubs then what the actual fuck are you doing piling into the lad?

Should we sack Pep for continuing to pick him?

 

[Kazzydeyna]

So you think he played well tonight do you?

I’ve never seen him have a bad game.
I’ve seen him have games where he doesn’t get a lot of service. And games where he’s up against the biggest club in the world in their own backyard and then contribute to a superb team performance.

Should we sell him and go balls deep for Rashford?

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Genuine questions for the new generation of Haaland haters:

If City were to transfer list him:
A) how much would you sell
Him for? And
B) who do you think would come in for him?

If the answer to a) is >£100m and the answer to b) includes most or indeed all of the worlds top clubs then what the actual fuck are you doing piling into the lad?

Should we sack Pep for continuing to pick him?

Nobody hates him. He just has to do more in these big games.

 

[city warrior]

I’ve never seen him have a bad game.
I’ve seen him have games where he doesn’t get a lot of service. And games where he’s up against the biggest club in the world in their own backyard and then contribute to a superb team performance.

Should we sell him and go balls deep for Rashford?

Wow, "I've never seen him have a bad game". That's enough. That tells anyone that discussing with you about this is pointless.

 

[geek24601]

So the year we brought him we finally win the CL and the treble and he scores that many goals and somehow he "doesn't suit our style of play"???

How on earth do you come to that nonsensical conclusion.

Our style of play is all about ball retention and having very gifted technical players in the final third. This is definitely not Erling. I love the guy and he’s a monster when on form but he’s not a Pep type player and never has been. I hope he will improve his all round game because if he’s not scoring he does very little apart from create some space for others.