Are City a better all round team without Haaland?

If he hasn’t knocked a pull back in or something during a game you’d leave saying “ that new striker weve signed is a fuckin donkey “
His footballing ability is shite

He’s there to score goals a he’s doing that but for how Pep plays I think we’re a stronger more dominant side without him in
 
Remember Chelsea at home last season?

We won 1-0 but continually through the game we played great balls into the box, got to the byline (remember when we used to do that?!) and cut balls back… and no **** was in the box!

After that game I said we’d never missed Agüero more and we were crying out for a striker.

We get one and now we rarely get decent balls into the box and we never get to the byline to cut balls back.

Is it not we created all those chances because we had 6 front players interchanging and creating instead of just 5
Hard to know but this is the worst we’ve looked for 5 years in terms of bossing games
 
Remember Chelsea at home last season?

We won 1-0 but continually through the game we played great balls into the box, got to the byline (remember when we used to do that?!) and cut balls back… and no **** was in the box!

After that game I said we’d never missed Agüero more and we were crying out for a striker.

We get one and now we rarely get decent balls into the box and we never get to the byline to cut balls back.
To be fair they are very very different strikers. Whilst Haaland is a world class forward he’s no Sergio.
 
If he hasn’t knocked a pull back in or something during a game you’d leave saying “ that new striker weve signed is a fuckin donkey “
His footballing ability is shite

He’s there to score goals a he’s doing that but for how Pep plays I think we’re a stronger more dominant side without him in
His footballing ability is unknown coz we never pass to him
 
His footballing ability is unknown coz we never pass to him

I get what you’re saying and I know he’s deadly if it falls to him in the box but I’d have expected to see a player being touted as one of the best players in the world dribble past a player at least once in half a season
He looks like a donkey when on the ball to me
His goals are basically one touch finishes ( that’s not a criticism) but when on the few occasions he gets it in general play he looks awful

Keep with him this season and hope he gets 40 and let Madrid know we are open to offers
Use the money to get Bellingham and go back to the old system
 
De Bruyne is now not finding him which is a huge worry. He's absolutely starved of any service at present, making him look awful in the process. It's another big problem in the team to sort out, can see Erling being on the subs bench very soon
 
Well other than his addition the best starting line up we have is the same as last year. So if we win less especially with our main rivals over the last few years faltering badly, you would surely have to conclude he has made our first choice starting 11 worse than what we were putting out last season
 
If he hasn’t knocked a pull back in or something during a game you’d leave saying “ that new striker weve signed is a fuckin donkey “
His footballing ability is shite

He’s there to score goals a he’s doing that but for how Pep plays I think we’re a stronger more dominant side without him in
Unbelievable isn't it that we've signed a striker who's scored 27 goals so far, but look a worse side for it. He been awful these last five matches but no fucker wants to give him the ball
 
Blaming the guy who’s scored 27 goals when the rest of the team has been shite. We created enough chances for wasters for Sterling and Jesus to score 50 each and then give Haaland fuck all. He is not a false 9 and isn’t the striker to drop off and link up and guess what Pep and the board knew that so the question is why did we sign him then?. Maybe blame those around him who have been fucking shite all season moaning about not wanting to be here
 
This notion that we don't create enough chances for Haaland is bonkers.

He's scored 21 league goals already. That's a lot! Also, he misses chances in some games, in particular vs Liverpool in the CS game and the league. As things go, he's likely to break the PL scoring record with games to spare. He needs what, 5-6 goals to break Aguero's record in all compets in a season. That's absolutely sensational. Haaland should have scored 5 vs Leeds recently.

It's impossible to create clear chances for the striker in every game. Also, we shouldn't be completely dependent for goals on Haaland. Pep and the team will need time to figure out how to use him even better than in the 1st half of the season. It's possible and likely to happen.

Pep's worst season at Barca was when Messi scored 73 goals in all compets. Barca won nothing big that season and Pep resigned. City shouldn't depend on Haaland like Barca on Messi back then. Haaland plays for City, not City for Haaland.
 
yes its not like Haaland is missing sitters or any kind of good chances in large number. he does not have the chances lately...

we have lost a bit of mobility and our pressing not as good with Haaland but that also comes from KDB having fitness issues, Bernardos form alongside Cancelo's dropping off a cliff generally and other players have form issues too like Foden...

changes need to be made by Pep in our way of playing/building attacks to accomodate Haaland more, issue is that would may come by having less control which is something Pep will never want to give up.

Haaland is one of the best striker for a team playing for the transition, quick counters, able to beat a high line defence, but we prefer to control the game, slow the pace and rather keep attacking vs a reorganized block of 10 men parked bus than quicker attacks which can cause us lose the ball bit more often.

I think problem is the defence, Pep has not much trust in our defending, hence the control freak tactics. and he is not wrong on that, we need about 2 dangerous run at our defence to certainly concede 1 or two goals on average.
look at today game, they had about 3 dangerous attacks, one where Ederson was mental coming out badly, one the offside goal and their winner.
 

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