Erling Haaland

[skyblue_brother]

Rumours Chelsea want to include Werner in the deal to bring cost down

Utter non starter, nearly as good as Barca will sell 6 player to buy Halland.......

Halland earns £141k, Warner £272k per week...... for a club who is going to lose €75m this year to add another €8m euros to it‘s wage bill is just beyond logic.

Let’s be clear Dortmund are selling to offset COVID losses, its desire is cash payments not swapsies! Having said that I could see them wanting Delap but I cant see us in any circumstances letting him go...

This is simply irrelevant as it will never happen......

 

[Matt.D]

Second only to De Bruyne? Don't be a complete clown. So he's better than Bernardo? Would you take him over Foden? Do me a favour.
No blue tinted specs on. He's 26 years old and falls over if someone bangs a door. If you think he's world class then your idea of world class and mine are completely different.. What defines world class for you? Bernardo? De Bruyne? Mahrez? Cancelo? Fernandinho? Phil Jones?
Would you have him at City? 100% I wouldn't, he'd fuck up everything with his falling over and breaking up play.
In fact, I'd rather have a dose of the clap than have him in our club.

Your not objective at all then mate. Of course he dives, so does Sterling, so does Salah, Ronaldo has done it all his career... A couple of months from now it’s very likely his fellow premier league footballers are going to vote him as being the best player in the league this season. They all clowns too? 35 goals from centre midfield since last February, with loads of assists on top would suggest not. That’s not my personal view as for me it should be Dias but it’s what I think will happen.

Would I take him as part of our squad, absolutely. Would he fit into the same 11 as KDB, probably not, would be a bit like Gerrard and Lampard imo in that you wouldn’t get the full benefit of one of them if you tried to accommodate both.

To answer your other question, world class to me is being one of a small number of players who are the best in the world in their position and who would not look out of place in a world 11.

KDB - world class
Mahrez - very good but not world class
Bernardo - for me his work rate combined with his talent make him world class when he’s at his best
Peak Fernandinho - world class
Cancelo - based specifically on this seasons form, world class
Foden - Very good and will undoubtedly become world class.

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Your not objective at all then mate. Of course he dives, so does Sterling, so does Salah, Ronaldo has done it all his career... A couple of months from now it’s very likely his fellow premier league footballers are going to vote him as being the best player in the league this season. They all clowns too? 35 goals from centre midfield since last February, with loads of assists on top would suggest not. That’s not my personal view as for me it should be Dias but it’s what I think will happen.

Would I take him as part of our squad, absolutely. Would he fit into the same 11 as KDB, probably not, would be a bit like Gerrard and Lampard imo in that you wouldn’t get the full benefit of one of them if you tried to accommodate both.

To answer your other question, world class to me is being one of a small number of players who are the best in the world in their position and who would not look out of place in a world 11.

KDB - world class
Mahrez - very good but not world class
Bernardo - for me his work rate combined with his talent make him world class when he’s at his best
Peak Fernandinho - world class
Cancelo - based specifically on this seasons form, world class
Foden - Very good and will undoubtedly become world class.

On what planet is Fernandez world class?
World class players deliver against the bigger teams.
What’re his stats against the big 6, two goals, both penalties right?

People only think he’s world class because of the shit he’s playing with.

edit; I spelt his name wrong but I hate rags so I’m not correcting it

 

[FantasyIreland]

Can we forget about the Rag ****? or if you have to....discuss him on the Rag thread please?

Cheers

 

[waspish]

Roman is making it his job to get Haaland now when he sets his sites on someone he promised them offers them the world even talks of a swap with Werner. Think Roman looks at us getting level with Chelsea premier titles and knows we get Haaland probably be another season they going to find it tough to win it. Hopefully it’s not money that motivates Haaland.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

What happened to this thread? Seems like hundreds of pages were deleted

 

[BlueAnorak]

That's a little unfair. He was fantastic for Arsenal as well, and of course had that amazing season 2012/13 for the scum when he just could not stop scoring. He only went off because he became perma-crocked afterwards.

Well yes but a good job in the long term that we didn't get him.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Bruno will be voted FOTY. A worthy follow up to Jordan Henderson, another world class player. That's my final word on the subject.

 

[Akira]

I know people try to push that agenda, but take off the blue tinted specs. He’s an unbelievable footballer, playing in a fucking shite team. He’s single handedly carried them to 2nd place. Look at his numbers there and imagine what he would get playing as an 8 in our side. In terms of attacking centre mids he’s 2nd only to De Bruyne in world football right now imo.

Bias aside, he is a fantastic footballer. I don't think he'd fit in as an 8 though. The games I watched him, he suffers the further he is from the penalty box (cue jokes about diving/Penandes). His best contributions are when he's in the attacking midfielder spot, almost as a second striker.

 

[Akira]

A player so good, we have two threads for him.