9 | Erling Haaland - 2023/24

[domalino]

He’s played a lot of football in the last year.

Maybe he just needs a rest?

 

[Bluefen]

Had a pretty decent rest during last winter whilst the World Cup was on

For me teams are roughing him up - especially in the area - in fact they are doing it to all of our players - the one Odegaard did today on Gvardiol was a joke

 

[D'Silva]

I'd start Julian over him at this point. Put Grealish and Doku either side.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The Ederson hating barmpots had to migrate to another player’s thread.

Unbelievably to this one.

Could we get Paul Dickov to unretire? He’d work harder.

 

[bluemoon32]

He is missing KDB more than anyone, no one else plays those through balls for him

 

[Blue Maverick]

Had a pretty decent rest during last winter whilst the World Cup was on

For me teams are roughing him up - especially in the area - in fact they are doing it to all of our players - the one Odegaard did today on Gvardiol was a joke

There was one near the end of the match, defender climbed all over him in from5 of Pep, he got fuck all, had that been Kane it would’ve been a a free kick

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

There was one near the end of the match, defender climbed all over him in from5 of Pep, he got fuck all, had that been Kane it would’ve been a a free kick

Perhaps time that Pep started drawing very public attention to it. Refer to every instance of it in every presser. Even if the usual media suspects start accusing him of moaning, he’d at least be putting it in the public eye

 

[David White]

We’re not utilising his strengths at all. I’m not suggesting he’s in top form because he’s missed a few chances this season that he’d have buried last season. I can’t see his game changing and him being more involved in other areas of the pitch, it’s just not what he does not what we bought him for. If that’s what Pep wants then Alvarez is our man. Julian is a better footballer and has the engine to do that.

He’ll still win the golden boot this year and I’m positive this relative lean spell will pass quickly. But, there’s very little point in playing him if we’re not going to feed him. We’ve clearly missed Rodders but he isn’t necessarily the answer. Kev is, but I’m not convinced Kev will be back at all, let alone come back as strong as he did before.

We need to move the ball forward quickly and play into Haaland whilst he’s got the chance to attack it, not when he’s flat footed because he’s waited 7 minutes for us to fuck about building it up and he’s marked tightly.

 

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

We have a Ferrari but driving it like a Fiat

 

[SiMCFC]

As others have said, whilst we aren't feeding him, he's a passenger. I'm not particularly convinced he's actually particularly occupying defenders either, his movement is rubbish at the moment but he's probably as frustrated as we are watching it.