Erling Haaland

[manimanc]

Haaland signing will make up for us losing out on Messi.

Did we really lose out on him? You have to be in for someone to lose out on them!
Seem to remember absolutely zero interest from us apart from the usual cock and bull from the press.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Don’t forget the assist

I was gonna let him off with that. We just want two or three goals a week from him - Foden, Mahrez, Kev, Raheem, Jack 'n Bernardo can do the assisting when they have a breather from scoring their individual goals!

 

[BufordUSABlue]

Did we really lose out on him? You have to be in for someone to lose out on them!
Seem to remember absolutely zero interest from us apart from the usual cock and bull from the press.

Spot on! We were never in for Messi (this time) or Ronaldo for that matter....... Pure press and agent driven bollocks!
FACT..

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Interesting...

 

[Manchester_lalala]

The rumors were also constant this year until like April when everything shut down.

But it sort of makes sense. This summer just gone we weren’t paying the big transfer fee and his wage demands. Everything changes when his release clause activates.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I would have said Rags but I highly doubt he moves there with Ronaldo playing as 9. They arn't playing together in the XI and none of them are going to benched. The Cavani contract is/was interesting (expires summer), they must have planned on Haaland then, but then got fucked by our approach of Ronaldo.
Chelsea is also out because of Lukaku. Not many clubs to go to. I can only see Bayern, us and Madrid (maybe Pool if they can afford him).

Liverpool can't afford him, can't even meet Salah's demands at present.

 

[decmancity]

Interesting...

Doesn't match anything that has been reported before. Fjortoft reported it and he has basically been the Haaland spokesman since Erling came on the scene.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Doesn't match anything that has been reported before. Fjortoft reported it and he has basically been the Haaland spokesman since Erling came on the scene.

Yeah, such a big name (for Madrid stuff anyway) to come out with the report. You would think Dortmund would have denied it off the bat ages ago knowing they would keep him without a bidding war.

 

[David Silva]

Doesn't match anything that has been reported before. Fjortoft reported it and he has basically been the Haaland spokesman since Erling came on the scene.

Madrid trying to set the narrative in Spain for them pulling out / failing to sign him?

 

[Tokyo32]

But it sort of makes sense. This summer just gone we weren’t paying the big transfer fee and his wage demands. Everything changes when his release clause activates.

No it doesn’t make sense because we were willing to spend big on Kane and alao spent big on Grealish so you can’t say we were waiting for his release clause.