Erling Haaland

[Deleted member 87819]

Sort of noticed that side to him. He might not be ideal for the dressing room. 21, won nothing, bigger ego than the lads who have put together those huge winning runs, won the battles, fought the adversity and collected the trophies?

I honestly cannot tell if this kind of bullshit is irony going over my head or being said straight?

 

[decmancity]

There is no tour. Raiola will visit many countries during this month as he is an agent during a transfer window and does business regarding a number of players to take care. Of course it won’t stop people from using buzz words like “circus” and “whoring around”. But it’s standard stuff

Yeah Raiola will be in plenty of places but when Twitter is full of photos of him sat next to Alf in Barcelona, Madrid and so on. What is that, just them two sharing a cab to save some money?

This whole thing is a circus, every day there are reports about X, Y and Z.

If Haaland wanted to be here we would know by now. How hard is the decision seriously, the fact it seems he is even contemplating a new contract from Dortmund just to hang on for Real is ridiculous.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Haaland’s instagram is basically the standard footballer instagram. Nothing shocking there as probably every post goes through a staff of publicists for either approval or design — again, like every footballer.

Seriously, compare his feed to KdB’s. It’s the same stuff (at home, pictures playing for the club, when it’s vacation time just showing where they are etc). His stories are pretty ordinary as well, nothing special.

 

[Coatigan]

Sort of noticed that side to him. He might not be ideal for the dressing room. 21, won nothing, bigger ego than the lads who have put together those huge winning runs, won the battles, fought the adversity and collected the trophies?

He has actually won more than 90% of our players had before we signed them.

Just saying.

Not that that matters imo, and turn up your nose at how you perceive his attitude all well, but get the detail right.

 

[samuelyeboah]

Yeah Raiola will be in plenty of places but when Twitter is full of photos of him sat next to Alf in Barcelona, Madrid and so on. What is that, just them two sharing a cab to save some money?

This whole thing is a circus, every day there are reports about X, Y and Z.

If Haaland wanted to be here we would know by now. How hard is the decision seriously, the fact it seems he is even contemplating a new contract from Dortmund just to hang on for Real is ridiculous.

unpopular opinion - but we should also try and sign players that aren't 100% sure if they prefer playing here or another big team if that player is good enough. it's a very bad strategy to not even challenge in the transfer market for any player who might consider his options first before deciding.

 

[Coatigan]

Yeah Raiola will be in plenty of places but when Twitter is full of photos of him sat next to Alf in Barcelona, Madrid and so on. What is that, just them two sharing a cab to save some money?

This whole thing is a circus, every day there are reports about X, Y and Z.

If Haaland wanted to be here we would know by now. How hard is the decision seriously, the fact it seems he is even contemplating a new contract from Dortmund just to hang on for Real is ridiculous.

Cmon with this crap. A, it is not every day. It happened a year and a half ago, once recently when he met with the barcelona guy in hotel they were both at for whatever reason. And that was it. I didn't like seeing it myself, particularly as it was during a season, but it isnt a daily occurance.

That isn't a 'circus', it is an overreaction.

I agree though, if he wanted to be here, we would know. And if we did, it wouldn't in any way stop the specalulation and following anyway.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Yeah Raiola will be in plenty of places but when Twitter is full of photos of him sat next to Alf in Barcelona, Madrid and so on. What is that, just them two sharing a cab to save some money?

This whole thing is a circus, every day there are reports about X, Y and Z.

If Haaland wanted to be here we would know by now. How hard is the decision seriously, the fact it seems he is even contemplating a new contract from Dortmund just to hang on for Real is ridiculous.

They visited Barcelona at some point before last summer and Laporta set paparazzi to catch them outside the airport to talk up Barcelona’s place in the transfer. That was last summer. They were hearing about projects. Let me know if it happens again

The “reports” you are talking about are almost all made up. Are they any different from the one thousand stories about Kane in the summer pushed by all sides? There was a new story literally every day. On Grealish, it was similar (but resolved earlier). These are how big transfers work. They’re opportunity for the media to get clicks and views. Stuff will be made up! No one can control it.

I also don’t see how we would know his decision by now? They are not going to announce it to the world when he still has half a season at his current club. I also haven’t heard that he’s contemplating staying at Dortmund another season. They will sit down to talk this month. Of course his club will present will put an offer on the desk. Do you want him to not even give them a meeting? And we don’t know what his stance will be at such meeting. Raiola said in an interview something like “I’m not saying he won’t stay at Dortmund”, which we can read a number of ways (including that it’s true), but above all just seems respectful to me. It’s certainly much more respectful than how Vlahovic’s agent has been acting

 

[decmancity]

unpopular opinion - but we should also try and sign players that aren't 100% sure if they prefer playing here or another big team if that player is good enough. it's a very bad strategy to not even challenge in the transfer market for any player who might consider his options first before deciding.

I have no doubt we have tried but if what we have offered is not enough then good luck to him. What more does he want, the undisputed number one striker for one of the best clubs in Europe under the best manager in the world as well as a very handsome paypacket.

If the sun and tapas is more important then best of luck to him.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

unpopular opinion - but we should also try and sign players that aren't 100% sure if they prefer playing here or another big team if that player is good enough. it's a very bad strategy to not even challenge in the transfer market for any player who might consider his options first before deciding.

I agree, but it’s not even true that we don’t do that. Again, we presented Lukaku with an offer that he turned down for not wanting to come. We didn’t ask him “Mr. Lukaku, do you want to come?” first lol. You can also talk transfers like KdB’s and others as example, as well as youth players

 

[Deleted member 87819]

I have no doubt we have tried but if what we have offered is not enough then good luck to him. What more does he want, the undisputed number one striker for one of the best clubs in Europe under the best manager in the world as well as a very handsome paypacket.

If the sun and tapas is more important then best of luck to him.

Your sentiment is correct but as for the last part, I want to repeat that there is no evidence that is the case