Erling Haaland

[Dribble]

Question and Im not trying to be controversial here, just interested in the thoughts of others . Consider the sort of football we play and how magnificent we can be without a number 9. (Is Haaland the answer?) (My Slight) worry arises from the amount of games we have been seeing lately where teams just play banks of 5 and 4 with 1 up front. I can understand people saying watching City is boring, (WAIT !) not City's fault at all! its because these teams are just sitting deeper and deeper and stifling our creativity. Bit of background, when i played (centre half) I loved a big striker to mark and when there wasnt one and it was a nippy (turn on a sixpence type of)forward i got moved about all over the place which I hated. Which is where I believe our success, sans BLUF type of striker stems from. So the question is... Would / will a 6ft 3in centre forward be as prolific, as he currently is, with the way most teams play against us.??

Haaland is much more than a broken nosed, cauliflower eared big lump up front. He offers us another attacking dimension, something we only have with the young & inexperienced Delap.

Whether teams defend deep or come at us, currently we only have one way to approach our games. Sometimes when Pep has got creative, it's caused us more problems than the opposition. Haaland will give us options without having to tear up our possession based attacking philosophy.

Add to the fact that Julian Alvarez will hopefully arrive in July & the age of him & Haaland, if they both hit the ground running & turn out to be the players we need, we'll be set for the next decade.

Alvarez is the smaller nippy striker type you hated playing against. We've mastered the false 9, now look at the options we'll gain with these two?? \0/

 

[Dribble]

Makes sense tbh

Dortmund like transfers done very early, Bayern similar.

German efficiency and all that

"Next few weeks"? The transfer window will be officially open in 10 weeks, so that could mean anything...

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Makes sense tbh

Dortmund like transfers done very early, Bayern similar.

German efficiency and all that

Bayern prefer the " run down your contract and come on a free " approach normally - the cunts.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Hazard

Alves

 

[deano ou812]

Bayern prefer the " run down your contract and come on a free " approach normally - the cunts.

Indeed,along with the alleged tapping up of players..

 

[Blue and true]

I think if it wasnt on the right lines we’d have had significant denials and corrections flying around. We havent so I suggest its genuine

Tend to agree. Fingers crossed.

 

[Del_Bosque]

"Next few weeks"? The transfer window will be officially open in 10 weeks, so that could mean anything...

Few weeks to me would mean 2-6 weeks.

anything 8 weeks and over is a few months?

 

[Nails]

What is that tweet getting at?

It's from a year ago.

 

[manimanc]

Last March was just the beginning…

I wondered when playdoh head would throw his hat into the ring.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

"Next few weeks"? The transfer window will be officially open in 10 weeks, so that could mean anything...

Didn’t you just read the Madrid media say that club has SIGNED (not “signed”… SIGNED) Mbappe? Outside the transfer window… lol