Erling Haaland

[Mcfc-Carlos]

Yeah he just always struck me as a player who thrives in a counter attacking set up. With City being the team that controls possession the most in this league, it's going to be interesting to see how he fits into that system. Perhaps we might not even see the best of him until his second season at the club. It does seems like your players sometimes have to go through a season of acclimatising and learning Pep's football before lighting up the league in year 2.

I kind of agree on this, he will need time to bed in, learn the league and learn what pep wants. However the past 2 years city have deliberately slowed down our attacks to allow for the midfield players to catch up and attack the ball. We have to play in a really slow controlled way as if we go forward to quickly we haven’t got the players up there to do damage.

I suspect you’ll see city being a lot more direct and attacking space in a more similar way to the 100 points season with Haaland in the team.

When we win the ball back quickly the space is there in behind but we slow it down due to not really having the players running in behind.

 

[Silva&Silva]

Where did this come from? They've certainly kept this one under wraps.

 

[Gumzy97]

Haaland has gone from a top 3 striker to an injury prone mess. It’s funny.

 

[Silva&Silva]

Yeah, big money strikers fitting into the team is a sore subject for me :)

I've always pictured a more agile, nimble striker being a better fit for City. Not many of them around anymore at a truly elite level, and Haaland is nowhere near as poor and lacking in technical ability as Lukaku. I was just kinda thinking out loud.

Don't forget we got Julian Alvarez on the way.

 

[mike1923]

Erling Braut Haaland close to Man City move - Guillem Balague

Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Braut Haaland is "very close" to reaching an agreement to join Manchester City, says Guillem Balague.

www.bbc.co.uk

So we can’t compete with Madrid but he’s coming to us not Madrid. Quality

 

[oakiecokie]

"Will be"? They've nearly run out of tissues already mate.

And that's annoying because I could do with a few myself but for a very different reason.

Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Matron.

 

[citizen_maine]

Haaland has gone from a top 3 striker to an injury prone mess. It’s funny.

It's such a shame. He showed so much promise too. Lad must be gutted

 

[bluemonkey71]

Yeah for sure, but I meant would year 1 be a bit of a struggle as he's learning Pep's style. Seems like this has happened for a few of your players. Written off (by the media and outsiders) in year 1 before storming back in year 2 fully acclimatised to the system.

Hoping that’s the same for Grealish. Bernardo and others started off slowly

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Doesn't surprise me. He will probably make another joke about mental health and brush it off.

How many times are you going to reference that when I immediately explained what I meant and apologized for the poor use of words just a few posts later? Do you think it’s fair to be doing that to me? What else do you expect me to do? I am not the only person in this forum who made a mistake and apologized. Why this heavy persecution is beyond my comprehension. If you ask me to leave the forum over that mistake I swear I will. Just please stop doing that

 

[willipp]

Haaland has gone from a top 3 striker to an injury prone mess. It’s funny.

It must be close. Injury prone, doesn't suit our style of play, will be gone in 3 years, Pep will stunt his development, not a clinical striker and all of this in just the last 48 hours and he hasn't even signed for us.

 

[citizen_maine]

Oh fucking great. We're going to have another 20 pages of Gus bashing derailing the thread yet again

 

[Citizen Green]

Someone shout me when the robot has his clause activated, I'll get the duck GIF polished & ready.

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Can’t wait for pep to face loads of questions about this again only for him to shut them down again!

 

[MadeOfStones]

I reckon Haaland will do okay here with us. Pep’s not half bad at the old management stuff sometimes so I reckon he’ll get him firing

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Oh fucking great. We're going to have another 20 pages of Gus bashing derailing the thread yet again

Nah, it's Friday, Dortmund have all but signed Adeyemi and the Madrid "tier 1s" are starting to fully accept defeat.

I'm getting fucked up.

 

[Barcon]

Could you pick up a couple of bits for me. I feel I could be here for a while.

• 
  a tin of Princes corned beef
• a couple of Soreens (I do believe it’s buy 1 get 1 half price in Farmfoods)
• a dozen Warby’s barms
• three boxes of Heineken - bottles not cans - I’m not an animal
• a six pack of Andrex bog rolls (3 for shitting, 3 for the other)
• a couple of pork pies
• a bag of tangerines
• a copy of the April edition of Razzle
• some paracetamol
• some Dove hand cream
• 4 tins of beans

Any interest in a used vagankle? Free, obviously.

 

[Kippax77]

The BBC seem the biggest piss boilers over this transfer, and thinking about it also the biggest city haters.
A proper fucked up nasty organisation that is being partly funded by the Yankee dollar in its sports department

 

[Silva&Silva]

Are we going to have to get Madrid's permission to extend Pep's contract once we sign Haaland?

 

[Tom Connolly]

i wonder if the announcement will be as and when it’s done or if we’re gonna hold off until the end of the season. my mate reckons it’ll be a pep style announcement soon (some sort of still graphic or just text on a blue background) and then a proper video announcement beginning of june

 

[citizen_maine]

The BBC seem the biggest piss boilers over this transfer, and thinking about it also the biggest city haters.
A proper fucked up nasty organisation that is being partly funded by the Yankee dollar in its sports department

I thought we were the piss boilers?