Erling Haaland

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If anything, I think Erling is secretly somewhat reliefed today. I think he really wants to be THE guy that wins us our first CL. I had a bit of a funny feeling that we wouldn't win it this year without him
 
If anything, I think Erling is secretly somewhat reliefed today. I think he really wants to be THE guy that wins us our first CL.
I agree. People might be concerned that he’ll have his head turned based on last night, but he’ll be fully aware that Aguero’s legendary status is in part because of his goal tally, and in part because of 2012.

As far as Haaland’s thinking is concerned, I don’t think last night is a turn-off.

If he can bag 30-40 in a season and pick up our first champions league along the way, he’d be in good stead for a Ballon D’Or. He’ll know that.
 
We're talking about this transfer like City fans planning to takeover the Place du Trocadéro at the end of May. A foregone conclusion? I don't think so. Erling or not, we really do need to get that Sergio replacement we've been waiting for years.
 
Can we be certain that after watching that tonight, Haaland hasn’t changed his mind and chose Real instead?
Not only that, if we bottle the Prem too, Pep might walk and not see out his final year, let alone extend?
We'll if Pep flops the league too then he has to walk. I don't think there's anyway his position is tenable if that happens. That is the minimum we can go down to after the disappointing FA and CL semi exits and the fact we had a sizeable lead in this competition.
 
At the risk of opening myself up for ridicule, I wonder if his playing style might be somewhat to blame for his injuries so far. I'm aware that Dortmund's medical team look they've been assembled from an abattoir but when you watch his flat footed running style and the way he crashes to the ground when going for aerial challenges, I can't help but think that it looks like an awful lot of pressure to put on your body, especially for someone that size.

For any basketball fans, the story of Derrick Rose should be familiar. You can go back and watch highlights of him when he was younger and, as well as being amazed at his insane athleticism, you can see the way he used to land so heavily after every dunk. Then his knees exploded and he was never the same player.

To bring it a little closer to home, both Vinnie and Micah were similar in terms of how they looked like they'd go all in for the ball with little regard for their landing or how they'd often put their body in similar stressful situations.

If that is true then it's a case of correcting some bad habits through repetition and committing new ones to muscle memory. Sounds complicated but it's similar to how Phil has done loads of work on his running technique with a specialist.

Hopefully, though, it's just a case of Dortmund doing Dortmund things because that would be way more straight forward. Plus, his manic style is part of what makes him so good to watch. His running style makes him look like something that crawled out of a well in an old Japanese horror movie.

Either way, I'm not concerned, just an observation.
 
At the risk of opening myself up for ridicule, I wonder if his playing style might be somewhat to blame for his injuries so far. I'm aware that Dortmund's medical team look they've been assembled from an abattoir but when you watch his flat footed running style and the way he crashes to the ground when going for aerial challenges, I can't help but think that it looks like an awful lot of pressure to put on your body, especially for someone that size.

For any basketball fans, the story of Derrick Rose should be familiar. You can go back and watch highlights of him when he was younger and, as well as being amazed at his insane athleticism, you can see the way he used to land so heavily after every dunk. Then his knees exploded and he was never the same player.

To bring it a little closer to home, both Vinnie and Micah were similar in terms of how they looked like they'd go all in for the ball with little regard for their landing or how they'd often put their body in similar stressful situations.

If that is true then it's a case of correcting some bad habits through repetition and committing new ones to muscle memory. Sounds complicated but it's similar to how Phil has done loads of work on his running technique with a specialist.

Hopefully, though, it's just a case of Dortmund doing Dortmund things because that would be way more straight forward. Plus, his manic style is part of what makes him so good to watch. His running style makes him look like something that crawled out of a well in an old Japanese horror movie.

Either way, I'm not concerned, just an observation.

Stick him on the penalty spot in a wheelchair and we beat Madrid ffs, get it done City ;)
 
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