Erling Haaland

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BillyShears said:
It's the way he said it. Like a whiny little private school boy who's found out the neighbour's kid has got a bigger car than him.
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I know what you mean, but I also think that things are looking pretty dark and gloomy for a non-City fan.

You look around the league -

- The Glazers in charge at United, Ole as manager.
- FSG showing they're not going to be big spenders unless someone donates another £150m for a bench player.
- Roman pulling back investment significantly to mostly just investing money raised from sales.
- Arsenal floundering entirely and falling well behind Everton, West Ham, Wolves & Leicester.
- Spurs blew their shot and now are trudging through Mourinho's second season with a messy divorce inevitable.

The idea that we could sign a good LB, Messi and Haaland this window would will be as depressing for non-city fans as it is exciting for us.

If I was neutral, I'd be really worried about who is going to seriously challenge us in the medium-long term. Klopp and Liverpool will bounce back, but they have an old squad and Klopp won't be around forever. We tripped ourselves up quite often in the first decade of Abu Dhabi ownership, but Khaldoon, Txiki and Soriano have learned their lessons and it's going to be very hard to keep up.
 
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domalino said:
I know what you mean, but I also think that things are looking pretty dark and gloomy for a non-City fan.

You look around the league -

- The Glazers in charge at United, Ole as manager.
- FSG showing they're not going to be big spenders unless someone donates another £150m for a bench player.
- Roman pulling back investment significantly to mostly just investing money raised from sales.
- Arsenal floundering entirely and falling well behind Everton, West Ham, Wolves & Leicester.
- Spurs blew their shot and now are trudging through Mourinho's second season with a messy divorce inevitable.

The idea that we could sign a good LB, Messi and Haaland this window would will be as depressing for non-city fans as it is exciting for us.

If I was neutral, I'd be really worried about who is going to seriously challenge us in the medium-long term. Klopp and Liverpool will bounce back, but they have an old squad and Klopp won't be around forever. We tripped ourselves up quite often in the first decade of Abu Dhabi ownership, but Khaldoon, Txiki and Soriano have learned their lessons and it's going to be very hard to keep up.
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I guess I expect these mugs to check their own support at the door when working for a media organisation. More fool me!
 
Ever since I've been a City fan (about 12 years now), it seems to me that we've never bought the then-current consensus top 1 or 2 players available for a position; instead, we've tried to buy high quality players a bit under the radar - expensive, but perhaps a bit undervalued.
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Haaland is a very hot commodity and is one of the very top targets for clubs looking for a striker.

So what do you think? Are we willing to spend very big on Haaland? - I honestly don't know for sure, but if so, this seems to be a departure from our previous signings. I hope that we are all in for Haaland - as I think he's likely the best striker of his generation.
 
BillyShears said:
It's so easy to use City's name as an agent because the assumption is always we have loads of money and will give massive contracts out.

What irks me a little bit is that some of the most respected transfer 'gurus' have no problem doing an agent's bidding for them. Castles is another one (like Ornstein) who keeps his relationships alive by happily peddling whatever they want him to.

Hence the Athletic glossed over Haaland, and didn't mention Daka or Nunez. Instead focussing on players in the middle of contract renewals. Very transparent.
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I have to ask, is there a reason why when it comes to transfers/contracts for the whole team (with foresight, not just hindsight) there are 2 or 3 legitimately trustworthy ITKs on here but none really in the journalism world? Do they hear the same stuff and not publish it or are they not privy to anything outside of briefings or something else even?
 
BillyShears said:
I guess I expect these mugs to check their own support at the door when working for a media organisation. More fool me!
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I hope they will be neutral, and as a neutral I'd be looking at the seemingly inevitable Messi+Haaland window and our current squad, looking at Liverpool's crash to earth this season and feeling like a Formula 1 fan seeing Mercedes and Hamilton in 2014 and realising there's not going to be much of a title race for a while.
 
mccity said:
I have to ask, is there a reason why when it comes to transfers/contracts for the whole team (with foresight, not just hindsight) there are 2 or 3 legitimately trustworthy ITKs on here but none really in the journalism world? Do they hear the same stuff and not publish it or are they not privy to anything outside of briefings or something else even?
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Don't be shocked to learn that the media know who the genuinely ITK people on this forum are and have cultivated relationships with most of them in real life.
 
domalino said:
I hope they will be neutral, and as a neutral I'd be looking at the seemingly inevitable Messi+Haaland window and our current squad, looking at Liverpool's crash to earth this season and feeling like a Formula 1 fan seeing Mercedes and Hamilton in 2014 and realising there's not going to be much of a title race for a while.
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Yeah, I guess that my issue with that is that they ran with the same things in summer of 2018 and 2019. Football isn't that simple and they know this.

Also, if they're that arsed about City dominating, it's interesting that they had no problem with Liverpool being the best team in the world for 12 months. I don't hear any fear about them signing Mbappe. No worries when the narrative was they have the best XI in the world and the best recruitment department.

Another thing which is in the same area. Whenever United or Liverpool are linked with massive players who could change the entire league's landscape, there's always a sense of excitement and also entitlement that those clubs should do those things. When City threaten to do them it's always framed as "how is anyone else meant to compete".

I'm sorry, as you can tell I'm definitely an agenda-monkey about these things!
 
BillyShears said:
It was definitely inside his ball park of bullshit. But there were others on that one too.

Also whilst I'm here and taking shots at people in the media. Adam Crafton has gone from "Is Guardiola still as desirable as he was a few years ago?" (basically is he finished) to yesterday giving it "It'll be awful for everyone else if City sign a striker this summer. They'll be so far ahead they'll dominate for years to come. Nobody can compete with them".
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In what way would that be awful?


:-)
 
I remember back in the day not being as sure as others on here about whether Aguero was the best target. I can't remember if I who I was hoping to get...maybe Forlan? lol

So what do I know this time round either.
 
BillyShears said:
Don't be shocked to learn that the media know who the genuinely ITK people on this forum are and have cultivated relationships with most of them in real life.
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That makes sense. So do you know why they don't publish/tweet the stuff from here then? Is it too risky?
 
BlueMoonFromAcrossThePond said:
Ever since I've been a City fan (about 12 years now), it seems to me that we've never bought the then-current consensus top 1 or 2 players available for a position; instead, we've tried to buy high quality players a bit under the radar - expensive, but perhaps a bit undervalued.
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Haaland is a very hot commodity and is one of the very top targets for clubs looking for a striker.

So what do you think? Are we willing to spend very big on Haaland? - I honestly don't know for sure, but if so, this seems to be a departure from our previous signings. I hope that we are all in for Haaland - as I think he's likely the best striker of his generation.
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It's great when "the ones that got away" turn out to be duds (like Pogba or Fred) but there have been lots of times when "the ones that got away" turn out to be hits (Hazard to Chelsea, Modric to Spurs, Isco to RealMadrid) ........... and of course the non-movers like Messi and Kaka.

So who knows if we'll get our targets or if they'll be a hit or miss wherever they go.

Just wish the transfer window was 1 week so could be all done with quickly.
 
Semper aggressus said:
No idea who Adam Crafton is, but he sounds like a snivelling rag bitch so he can fuck off with his ignorant, unimportant opinion.

Anyone who criticises City, or Pep is wrong and can go fuck themselves and their mother.
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The silly thing is that like everyone else he's missed the context. Pep wasn't talking about the incident, he was talking about how there was a huge reaction and everybody left, right, and centre was accusing Bernardo of being a full blown racist. He was relating it to the over the top reaction and death threats Mike Dean was receiving lately due to errors he's made in refereeing.

He probably used Bernardo as an example because he would know just how much the reaction would have affected Bernardo and is using his case as a means of empathising with Mike Dean.

Of course, everyone out there who hates City is using this as a chance to jump on Pep and pretending he's saying that Bernardo did nothing wrong (which he may actually believe but that is irrelevant to this). Crafton isn't the first journalist to make this leap.

Considering I expect a bunch of these journalists to have graduated universities with English, History, or Journalism degrees, there is a sure lack of analytical approaches and critical thinking from these people.

Sometimes it makes me want us to sign Haaland just to spite them, ahead of actually improving the team (sad I know).
 
mccity said:
The silly thing is that like everyone else he's missed the context. Pep wasn't talking about the incident, he was talking about how there was a huge reaction and everybody left, right, and centre was accusing Bernardo of being a full blown racist. He was relating it to the over the top reaction and death threats Mike Dean was receiving lately due to errors he's made in refereeing.

He probably used Bernardo as an example because he would know just how much the reaction would have affected Bernardo and is using his case as a means of empathising with Mike Dean.

Of course, everyone out there who hates City is using this as a chance to jump on Pep and pretending he's saying that Bernardo did nothing wrong (which he may actually believe but that is irrelevant to this). Crafton isn't the first journalist to make this leap.

Considering I expect a bunch of these journalists to have graduated universities with English, History, or Journalism degrees, there is a sure lack of analytical approaches and critical thinking from these people.

Sometimes it makes me want us to sign Haaland just to spite them, ahead of actually improving the team (sad I know).
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"these people"? Really? Racist!
 
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