Erling Haaland

[BlueBanger]

I’m not an easily offended person; quite the opposite, in fact.

Reminds me of the Billy Connolly standup where the wildebeest thinks he's "one of those stripey things over there" when the lions attack.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Reminds me of the Billy Connolly standup where the wildebeest thinks he's "one of those stripey things over there" when the lions attack.

:)

 

[Deleted member 87819]

What a coincidence ;)

 

[SWP's back]

If Real Madrid get Mbappe for free, a scenario that seems most likely, I have a feeling they going for Haaland as well. They have the money to offer Dortmund, the agent and Haaland himself what they want. At Real Madrid it's all about Galacticos

Madrid can’t afford the wages of both. Mbappe isn’t “free”, he’s going to be on £1m per week. What they save in fee, they’ll spend in wages.

 

[SWP's back]

So it’s still fair game to call Ligue 1 a ‘farmer’s league’ because there are few home-grown players in it?
It’s a derogatory term and it’s abusive. Not unlike what we have to put up with with ‘petrodollars’ and ‘Arab money’. And we are quite rightly offended by those terms.

Sounds like you’re very easily offended.

 

[Coatigan]

I am not stupid. I can perfectly read the “smart” sarcasm you were attempting there

This, btw is why I don't, or rarely do, respond to you. Because I have com to feel there is nothing to say you won't take personally. And i have no intention of offending, deliberately or unintentionally.

There was no sarcasm, smart or otherwise, and no implicatiom at stupidity, I literally said in the simplest terms that you were making a generic absolute statement, similar to ones you argue or dismiss so often. I challenged it for being so definitive, by pointing out other similar ones.

Re Madrid, I don't see any logic in anyone waiting for next summer if thats a move they and he want. Madrid don't wait for players, they go for them when they want them. They wouldn't risk Haaland ending up elsewhere, he wouldn't risk missing out, and they have the money, while he is affordable and available in terms of release fee, and they always have space for superstars. It is naive to dismiss them. That isn't saying I think he will end up there.

The rest is, as you say, narrative. Just narrative, that's all it is. Mince more than half the time, subject to change the rest.

 

[Coatigan]

Madrid can’t afford the wages of both. Mbappe isn’t “free”, he’s going to be on £1m per week. What they save in fee, they’ll spend in wages.

Of course they can.

And they will shift numerius high earners coming to the ends of their contracts. Shifted a few already.

 

[samuelyeboah]

I don't know why some here are so hellbent on discounting the very real possibility that he signs for madrid lol

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Re Madrid, I don't see any logic in anyone waiting for next summer if thats a move they and he want. Madrid don't wait for players, they go for them when they want them. They wouldn't risk Haaland ending up elsewhere, he wouldn't risk missing out, and they have the money, while he is affordable and available in terms of release fee, and they always have space for superstars. It is naive to dismiss them. That isn't saying I think he will end up there.

The logic is simple. The keep Benzema during the World Cup cycle and get rid of him to make space for Haaland in the following window. It doesn’t make sense for them to have these two in the squad, that is what everyone versed in Madrid knows. And nothing stops club and player staff from reaching an agreement about that in advance. If we had Benzema in our squad, no one here would be talking about us as contenders for signing Haaland. But with Madrid, people are stuck in a decade or two in the past, thinking they will sign players they don’t need for luxury. Because “they love galacticos” or whatever

 

[Deleted member 87819]

I don't know why some here are so hellbent on discounting the very real possibility that he signs for madrid lol

If you don’t know why, then you are not reading my posts. I repeatedly explain my points. “lol”