Erling Haaland

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I swear he said the same about KDB when we bought him.

Writing in his Daily Star column, Merson said: "City getting Erling Haaland won't make them unstoppable - I'd rather have Harry Kane! Kane is a better player in my opinion. Haaland is lightning quick. But Kane is better all-round player who is proven in this league and you know he'll be a hit for you.

"City could spend all the money in the world on Haaland. I still don't know if he'd be a hit. Sign Kane? Bang - 30 goals. No worries. And how many assists as well? This League title would have been done and dusted if City had had a centre forward. If they'd signed Kane last summer it would already be over.

"Haaland has plenty of pace and is a good finisher. He will score goals for City if they get him, and it looks like they will. But there won't be a lot of grass in front of him at City. Look at Romelu Lukaku. He has the same problem.
I just don't understand things. For the last decade I have been reading all the pundits doom-mongering at our acquisitions, while peeps on here have been saying the opposite.
It seems to me the pundits are know-nowt fucking idiots, cos every big call they have got wrong... and City keep getting better.
 
I swear he said the same about KDB when we bought him.

Writing in his Daily Star column, Merson said: "City getting Erling Haaland won't make them unstoppable - I'd rather have Harry Kane! Kane is a better player in my opinion. Haaland is lightning quick. But Kane is better all-round player who is proven in this league and you know he'll be a hit for you.

"City could spend all the money in the world on Haaland. I still don't know if he'd be a hit. Sign Kane? Bang - 30 goals. No worries. And how many assists as well? This League title would have been done and dusted if City had had a centre forward. If they'd signed Kane last summer it would already be over.

"Haaland has plenty of pace and is a good finisher. He will score goals for City if they get him, and it looks like they will. But there won't be a lot of grass in front of him at City. Look at Romelu Lukaku. He has the same problem.
Is this a lampoon of an article coz it can't be an actual article. For a fucking start if we do get haaland its at about 40% market value ffs!!
 
I swear he said the same about KDB when we bought him.

Writing in his Daily Star column, Merson said: "City getting Erling Haaland won't make them unstoppable - I'd rather have Harry Kane! Kane is a better player in my opinion. Haaland is lightning quick. But Kane is better all-round player who is proven in this league and you know he'll be a hit for you.

"City could spend all the money in the world on Haaland. I still don't know if he'd be a hit. Sign Kane? Bang - 30 goals. No worries. And how many assists as well? This League title would have been done and dusted if City had had a centre forward. If they'd signed Kane last summer it would already be over.

"Haaland has plenty of pace and is a good finisher. He will score goals for City if they get him, and it looks like they will. But there won't be a lot of grass in front of him at City. Look at Romelu Lukaku. He has the same problem.
I dont get people saying comments like this.
We’ve Won 24 Drawn 5 Lost 3 which is a bloody impressive record.

Having a striker wouldn’t mean we’d have won more games. We’d potentially have won different games but equally could have drawn or lost games we won.

People treat it like a bolt on to the current position as if it wouldnt have fundamentally changed the whole season.
 
Adding Haaland would be more than simply adding a World Class striker into the mix.

a) We can already win without a striker so have the option of playing either way. The opposing manager has to name his starting 11 not knowing whether to worry about a beast of a centre forward or a fluid interchangeable false 9 system, with the beast on the bench!

b) KDB will become even more effective. He's a big game match-winner in his own right and will have someone to covert the gilt-edge chances he creates plus more space and less attention from the opposition who will be scared to death of Haaland

c) Ederson long passes straight to Haaland... imagine the difference having a 6'4" beast with pace and a killer goal scoring instinct on the end of them instead of a bunch of modest paced midgets
 
Another month of this crap is going to drive everyone mental, ‘he prefers Madrid, he’s injury prone, release clauses, paid more that the entire Burnley squad, blah blah blah blah friggin blah’.

Sit tight laugh at it all and wait, that’s my approach on this one.

I think another nice signing might slip in under the radar too as all this noise continues. Big names in - big name out.
Big names in- suggests Haaland plus A N other big name out….Sterling / Jesus ? Care to expand
 
I swear he said the same about KDB when we bought him.

Writing in his Daily Star column, Merson said: "City getting Erling Haaland won't make them unstoppable - I'd rather have Harry Kane! Kane is a better player in my opinion. Haaland is lightning quick. But Kane is better all-round player who is proven in this league and you know he'll be a hit for you.

"City could spend all the money in the world on Haaland. I still don't know if he'd be a hit. Sign Kane? Bang - 30 goals. No worries. And how many assists as well? This League title would have been done and dusted if City had had a centre forward. If they'd signed Kane last summer it would already be over.

"Haaland has plenty of pace and is a good finisher. He will score goals for City if they get him, and it looks like they will. But there won't be a lot of grass in front of him at City. Look at Romelu Lukaku. He has the same problem.

Kane is fucking dogshit for at least three months of any given season, but Merson's got a memory like a goldfish and as soon as Prince Harry puts together a few weeks of good performances he forgets how much crap came before it. Give me Erling any day who doesn't have a consistent record of vanishing for months at a time.
 
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