He plays centre forward for probably the greatest side this country has ever produced who on 99% of the time have 70% plus possession and most of that in the attacking 3rd
He has some of the best creative players in the game creating chances for him and all that’s asked of him Is be in front of the goal and when the rest of the team get the ball to you there stick it in the net
He’s given the pass of only being expected to do this and contribute nothing in any other part of the game, his ridiculously low touch count each game shows this
He’s allowed to contribute even less to all round play than Aguero did, he was told do more or you’re benched and he was benched
You give me any premier league level striker at City and tell them that’s their only job, put them on penalties and I’m putting money on them to be up there every year in the golden boot race
Pep played false 9s at Barca, left Aguero out to play false 9 against Barca, constantly talked about how he’d have 11 midfielders If he could and to me there’s no way Haaland is Pep’s player
It’s just my opinion if we had a player like Berbatov, Kane, Drogba, Tevez, that those kind of players would maybe not quite get Haalands personal total of goals but would contribute that much more that we’d score more as a team and be a better all round side more capable of breaking the better teams down
It’s not hard to mark someone who is remaining in a relatively small area in the large portions of games when we’re surrounding the oppositions box trying to break through
The year before Haaland came most on here were mocking United fans for worshipping Ronaldo as he was banging them in and his personal stats looked great but we all showed twitter pictures of his heat map to show that although he was scoring his all round involvement was actual making United worse
Those same City fans don’t view Haaland contributions the same for some reason
Ronaldo scored 20+ goals in a team that finished 7th I think
Last 4 semis against Madrid he’s been anonymous, last 2 cup finals the same, Inter final the same
We didn’t sign Haaland to help us beat West Ham, Fulham etc… we never had a problem doing that without him as our goals totals proved, we want a striker who makes the difference in those 50/50 games and to do that you need more to your game than he offers in terms of ability to create a goal for yourself and create for others
If teams played football against us and took us on It wouldn’t be as much of a problem but all teams pack the defence and sit deep and when the really top sides and as yesterday showed even just a really well organised side/defence he’s just irrelevant
Just don’t see him as a good fit for our style of play
PS just to be clear I fxxkin hate Ronaldo
