9 | Erling Haaland - 2024/25

[Chak19]

One of the professional footballers that are on the pitch, maybe the winger who cost 50M or the PFL player of the year. You’re talking like it’s not an actual option, what are you watching that suggests we should keep on doing the same thing!?

That's the thing mate they are not scoring at the moment, in fact they can't hit a fucking barn door, Haaland is the only one that can score at the moment so you can't drop him.

 

[Gabriel]

We played some of the most enjoyable football of the Pep era with Foden as our false nine. Although our midfield was younger in those two seasons, shouldn't a manager like Pep be able to compensate for that?

I know we are on the treble with Haaland at the top, but almost every statistical category says we were better without him, making our treble even more special, but improbable even coming close to repeating, which we're seeing right now.

I don’t disagree, but we also won the treble with a team that peaked in those months. Save for Kovacic and Gvardiol, the signings since have seen us move away from that kind of ‘enjoyable’ football and more towards the kind of expansive football that creates even more chances for Haaland but which leaves us wide open elsewhere.

 

[01cravend]

3 goals in last 8 league games.. He's getting the chances but finishing has been awful recently after starting the season in ridiculous form.


False 9 ain't it either. Pretty sure half those false 9 games was just Gabby starting. Then there was Kev, Gundo and Bernie who are all a lot older now. Then Ferran Torres, Sterling and Phil(who wasn't good there btw). We don't have the players for it and certainly anyone that's going to make us score more than Haaland does.

Erling isn't the issue, it's the complete lack of goals from everywhere else

 

[FJRMCFC]

We were a better team before he came.

 

[Bluemoonie92]

We can't rely on only him to score goals, getting ridiculous now. If he has an off day we r fucked. He needs someone to relieve the pressure on him. No alvarez and lack of foden goals leaves us very short

 

[Jonas.shaffer]

I don’t disagree, but we also won the treble with a team that peaked in those months. Save for Kovacic and Gvardiol, the signings since have seen us move away from that kind of ‘enjoyable’ football and more towards the kind of expansive football that creates even more chances for Haaland but which leaves us wide open elsewhere.

It's a predicament that I fear can only be corrected in the summer, but even then, the club has to wait until the verdict of the charges before arranging things with agents, etc.

 

[Jonas.shaffer]

We were a better team before he came.

Oh, boy. While I agree, be prepared for the abuse that's about to come your way.

 

[youngbob]

So, so poor today. Decision making and finishing was woeful.

 

[Lavinda Past]

No

 

[Gabriel]

It's a predicament that I fear can only be corrected in the summer, but even then, the club has to wait until the verdict of the charges before arranging things with agents, etc.

It’s a decision that should have been taken when Viana was appointed. We’re either going to overhaul the squad and bring in technically proficient players, or we’re going to overhaul the squad and bring in more physically expansive players. I hope it’s the former, as that would be truer to Guardiola’s principles. It’s not a predicament that can be solved in one window, however.