Erling Haaland

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Dobsy said:
Ideas I can think of are ...

- The glamour and history of success at the club. They're in a relatively low moment but realistically, they will remain competitive in the medium to long term. - - He's young and a long term project could be sold to him.
- The climate
- The opportunity to live and work in Spain could be very attractive, learn the language, culture etc.
- City is his old man's club, might want to plough his own furrow.
- Money. With creative accounting and this potential cash injection from Saudi, they may be able to blow others out of the water for the right player (which for them I think is Mbappe personally).

I think he's obviously got an affinity for City and we're a good option but he's the only one inside his head. Money will be the number 1 factor I suspect.
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He can always go to Madrid after spending about 7 years here. At the moment City is the better option for him.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Sergio not coming on at all this evening looked decidedly odd to me. To be on the bench is one thing. Not to come on at any point when a game changer up front was clearly needed is another.
Could be completely wrong, but I have to wonder to myself whether he is gradually being frozen out. And that leads me to wonder — do Pep and Txiki know something about Haaland that the rest of us don't know?
It's tragic to think that about Sergio, and it's probably just idle speculation, I suppose.
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so you think that the manager and the football director might know a bit more about haaland than the average bluemoon punter , with all the know it alls on here i doubt it
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
So, Madrid's long term project COULD be sold to him... Spain COULD be very attractive ... he MIGHT want to plough his own furrow Madrid MAY be able to blow others out of the water and you SUSPECT money will be the number 1 factor. Congratulations - you make out a very convincing water tight case. On his way to Madrid then.
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I wasn't trying to make a watertight case. By highlighting all those words you've made the exact point I was making: there are a lot of 'maybes' involved. People getting giddy on here and deciding it's set in stone doesn't mean it's set in stone.
 
FantasyIreland said:
Cheers for reply.

Personally i dont think money will be his main concern,but that matter is kind of redundant anyway when both clubs are gonna be starting talks at a minimum 300k/week.
He has the opportunity to be the main man and legend here,a club that is soaring and maybe the best in the world,for the next 10 years.

I genuinely think we are a marriage made in heaven and i suspect he's the kind of character that will see footballing reasons as his main motivation.
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Tbh I tend to agree with you. He's not a City fan in the way a lot of footballers say it about clubs they join, where they mean they had one top once when they were ten. It runs through his family like a stick of rock.

What keeps my feet on the ground is that Alfie's career was ended quite suddenly by injury. That must have had lasting financial consequences for them as a family and have been a relatively worrying time, that won't be forgotten. 300k sounds like a lot but Bale is earning double that. 100k a week extra on a 5 year contract = 25m! You could do a lot of good with 25m. Then the question becomes "is playing for City worth 25m and what I might do with it when retire?"

The presence of Raiola also suggests they are going to negotiate very hard.
 
As much as I think he'd be perfect for us, I just can't see us getting involved in the inevitable bidding war. Unless he really has his heart set on coming here, and unless he is willing to fight with Dortmund for that and potentially be held to see out another year, he'll probably end up elsewhere. I wouldn't get your hopes up.
 
City is the most stable club in the world at the minute and both alfie and erling will see that imo. The best manager in the world, an absolutely amazing squad of players who seem happy and together, no financial worries and a plan of how to grow further to keep on winning trophies. All the other so called elite clubs are either feeling the pinch cash wise (understandably), don’t have the squad we do or a guarantee that the manager won’t be sacked or leave in the short term?
 
Dobsy said:
I wasn't trying to make a watertight case. By highlighting all those words you've made the exact point I was making: there are a lot of 'maybes' involved. People getting giddy on here and deciding it's set in stone doesn't mean it's set in stone.
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You clearly dont know how it works on here.
 
When you look at the salaries being paid to the new generation of elite players I would imagine he / Alfie/ Mino will be asking to be the best paid player at the club.
 
after watching that "angry"video ,the more i see of him the more i think, mmmm , i know all the haaland "cant do anything wrong" boys on here will be up in arms, his touch is average/poor, he comes across as petulant and a bit of a slapped arse , i could see pep losing his fucking mind over haaland, and im still not convinced we will be in for him. he's big and fast, and for 100m i would want a better footballer, not a battering ram.

now that's my opinion so far, i expect the usual know it alls to have a go, but i think he is very over hyped, sorry for not loving him, he has got a lot to do to convince me(but its not my opinion that counts) he is the next coming.
 
peace frog said:
after watching that "angry"video ,the more i see of him the more i think, mmmm , i know all the haaland "cant do anything wrong" boys on here will be up in arms, his touch is average/poor, he comes across as petulant and a bit of a slapped arse , i could see pep losing his fucking mind over haaland, and im still not convinced we will be in for him. he's big and fast, and for 100m i would want a better footballer, not a battering ram.

now that's my opinion so far, i expect the usual know it alls to have a go, but i think he is very over hyped, sorry for not loving him, he has got a lot to do to convince me(but its not my opinion that counts) he is the next coming.
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Don’t be so arrogant as to claim that anyone who disagrees with you is a “know it all”. He doesn’t have to do a lot to convince you; his numbers speak for themselves. When we play Dortmund in the UCL, remember they’re in the QF nearly exclusively because of him.

we need a guy with personality. That first paragraph reminds me of this little incident:

 
Guscruz said:
Don’t be so arrogant as to claim that anyone who disagrees with you is a “know it all”. He doesn’t have to do a lot to convince you; his numbers speak for themselves. When we play Dortmund in the UCL, remember they’re in the QF nearly exclusively because of him.
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Nearly? :) Fucker beat Sevilla pretty much single handedly. Can't think of anyone else in their squad that scores the goals he did in that tie.
 
He's a winner. Petulant, but a winner. He'll grow out of the petulance you'd think (i always thought that about Mario).

The only thing that will stop us going for him is if Kane becomes available. Can see Haaland and Kane at both Manchester clubs, just a case of which one where.
 
Guscruz said:
Don’t be so arrogant as to claim that anyone who disagrees with you is a “know it all”. He doesn’t have to do a lot to convince you; his numbers speak for themselves. When we play Dortmund in the UCL, remember they’re in the QF nearly exclusively because of him.

we need a guy with personality. That first paragraph reminds me of this little incident:

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fuck me, i mention know it alls and the biggest one on the haaland thread appears , bit like Beetlejuice, as for that video, ive no idea what its supposed to mean,one incident of aguero being angry at being taken of v a 6 minute video of haaland throwing his arms in the air, kicking the ball away and getting involved with anything and everything, wind your neck in, as for arrogant, have a read back at anyone who doesnt agree with you and a couple of others ,now that is arrogant,
 
I’ve always said that if this came down to us and Madrid, it would become personal to some people at our club who hate that Spanish club that rivals another certain Spanish club, which means (I hope) they’ll fight like hell
 
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