Erling Haaland

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Kinkladze's crazy skills said:
That's fair enough view but the other guy was calling Haaland overrated and that he isn't the better player, I honestly think he's a potentially better player for us from say the off next season just because, Haaland's runs will open spaces for our wide men and runners from the middle, whereas Kane is very limited in his off the ball movement he's not going to be stretching defences he'll be a less mobile guy in the box, he would score goals and defo add a threat but in my view he wouldn't create much more than Haaland would at City either, people fawn over Kane's passing ability and it's quite good some of the passes he's picked out, he's done we'll for himself and adapted his game well for Spurs needs, he also passes to players on the counter plays with players who have better attacking instinct's than Haaland's teammates, who boost his assist numbers and I'm not saying he wouldn't score goals or get assists too, if I had to choose either though he's not even close to Haaland's level even now for me and I hope he's not the answer.

Haaland's link up play is actually quite good with players close to him, his passing is alright too but he doesn't have the runners from deep alongside him, or ones that'll finish well Dortmund's have a massive over reliance on him being the spearhead of their quick counter attacks, that limits his link up with others and leads people to thinking he's a worse passer of the ball than he actually is, if he joins he'd take a short while just like Kane would but once he gets the hang of how we pass, he'd be bringing our more attacking runners from deep and wide men into games, yes Kane might be the better passer in some respects but in my view he wouldn't be better at making us more effective in the final third as a team.

We're playing a certain way due to the players we have and should we sign Haaland, he opens up so many different ways of playing we can play a more physical game up top, we can be more quick and aggressive style with one twos in our build up when needed, he adds the possibility of crosses being effective, he'll learn how to have great hold up play others in on goal, we'll have more ways of destroying the opposition and the more ways we have to beat teams the better... We basically have the false 9 and nowt else at the moment no other team in world football could do what we're doing right now with that, luckily we're so good with a false 9 that we're breezing through most but we've had some difficult times and you always have to adapt, other teams will have a better idea of how to best us next year if we standstill and for me Haaland potentially gives us a lot more than Kane.
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Phew...and breathe. You win the longest sentence on BM ever! Have you run out of full stops mate?
Otherwise, you say that 'Haaland's link up play is actually quite good with players close to him, his passing is alright too...' but that Dortmund 'have a massive over reliance on him being the spearhead of their quick counter attacks, that limits his link up with others and leads people to thinking he's a worse passer of the ball than he actually is'. Haaland's strength, movement, hold-up play and finishing aren't in question. However, your argument seems to be predicated on Haaland's unproven link-up play and passing ability which are generally considered to be a prerequisite in a Pep team (witness changes to Aguero's style of play). You may or may not be right but how can you possibly know Haaland is the better option in that respect if he doesn't currently have an opportunity to showcase these attributes in the Dortmund set-up (particularly given your faint praise such as 'alright' and 'quite good')?
 
Kinkladze's crazy skills said:
My aim wasn't to be patronising just my take on them as options but I can defo see how it looks now.
In all honesty I was more trying to make him realise that Haaland should he sign would be far better than he actually thinks... He was calling him overrated and next to slagging him off literally dismissing Haaland as an inferior choice than Kane, not too dissimilar in to me in a sense and yeah it might've looked bad because mine is longer but I'm just saying it how it is, Haaland will achieve more in football than Harry Kane bar injuries or death and won't be as useless as many think, linking up with teammates I'm talking about and general passing for whatever club he joins, I'm wholly convinced Haaland is the more superior even now in Haaland's youth, also convinced that Haaland would improve us in the most important ways for our potential as a team and not in just an individual manner.
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Haaland is the better option for a majority of reasons...anyone who says he's over-rated should have their judgement questioned...over-rated compared to who?..he is the best pure 9 this side of 25 and its not close...Kane has been an outstanding performer but there's no way one can argue he would make for the better choice, right here, right now...are some of the people complaining that he is over-rated, injury prone, destroying our wage scale, destabilizing the locker room, etc. the same people who whine on about us never being able to sign THE guy in any window?...I, for one, will be absolutely ecstatic if we are able to bring him on...if it does happen, we'll be hearing so much fucking rubbish from every corner of Europe...do we really need to hear that same rubbish from "our own"?...
 
JewelZee said:
Haaland is the better option for a majority of reasons...anyone who says he's over-rated should have their judgement questioned...over-rated compared to who?..he is the best pure 9 this side of 25 and its not close...Kane has been an outstanding performer but there's no way one can argue he would make for the better choice, right here, right now...are some of the people complaining that he is over-rated, injury prone, destroying our wage scale, destabilizing the locker room, etc. the same people who whine on about us never being able to sign THE guy in any window?...I, for one, will be absolutely ecstatic if we are able to bring him on...if it does happen, we'll be hearing so much fucking rubbish from every corner of Europe...do we really need to hear that same rubbish from "our own"?...
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Correct anyone says it’s a poor league he plays yep it ain’t as good as the premier but he showed in the champions league how good he is.
 
Xhavenjoe said:
And before that we got Kompany and Nigel de Jong from Hamburg.
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dzeko too. In fact when was the last "dud" from the bundesliga? seems to be nothing but success.

I dare to say the only "unsuccessful" transfer from the bundesliga was jerome boateng, and he went on to have a pretty decent career, also we sold him for profit.
 
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