Erling Haaland

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Dobsy said:
I think this is an interesting angle because of what happened with Garcia last summer. City were talking to Barca and then Garcia mouthed off to the Spanish press that he would never sign another City contract. At that point City stopped all negotiation. This seems counter intuitive, surely you just cut your losses. So why stop, and hold onto Garcia only to lose him on a free?

Because by speaking publicly Garcia had taken things beyond this single issue, and put himself in the crossfire of a wider, longer term issue: City's negotiating approach. If they had conceded on anything after Garcia spoke publicly, it would have sent a message to other City players and potential buying clubs: you can bully City in a transfer negotiation. Complain publicly and City will back down, your new club will get an X% discount. In this way, Garcia made it impossible for City to sell him. The long term cost was too high.

Along these lines I wonder what impact Mino's parade will have had. If I was in Txiki's place I'd be thinking "If I up my offer now I will simply encourage this sort of behaviour." Based on Pep's comments that appears to be the way City are thinking. It seems less likely to me that we'll sign Haaland now, not because we can't up our offer but because if we DO up the offer then we're locking ourselves into this sort of transfer saga for a decade or more. Add to that the contract negotiation sagas with our current squad.

Bring me Andre Silva in a quick, Bernardo style, under the radar signing and I'll be happier than 4 months of public negotiation and obscene headlines to get Haaland through the door. This approach has not done much good for United in recent years.
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My thought is that Haarland, as prolific as he is in that Dortmund side, is only 20.
He’s a big fast lad who’s developed at a terrific pace but that fact remains that many players go off the boil in their early 20’s and never seem to be able to fully reignite the flame that burned so bright in their late teens.
He’s great with Dortmund, that’s for sure, but could he get found out in the Premier League?
Could he be found out and managed out of games in the way that Andy Carroll was when he went from being the next Alan Shearer to being a fairly ineffective big lad to hoof the ball up to?
And sometimes a seemingly innocuous injury takes the shine right off a player - remember Negredo? He couldn’t put a foot wrong, seemed to score from the smallest opportunities and then he injured his shoulder and never got his mojo back.

Well I kinda doubt Hararland will wilt on the vine but that doesn’t mean that it won’t happen and, with respect for the fragile and often transitory nature of an athletes peak, maybe it’s not such a good thing to invest as heavily in one individual as Raiola will surely encourage us to.
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This place will probably be a nightmare this Tuesday and next Wednesday if we managed to successfully stop him, with a bunch of people who have never bothered to watch Dortmund before coming out of the woodwork to claim “he’s not all that”... forgetting we all should want him and Dortmund to fail. Better to stay away
 
Guscruz said:
This place will probably be a nightmare this Tuesday and next Wednesday if we managed to successfully stop him, with a bunch of people who have never bothered to watch Dortmund before coming out of the woodwork to claim “he’s not all that”... forgetting we all should want him and Dortmund to fail. Better to stay away
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We as fans can only judge on what we see, I won't slag him off if he doesn't get a kick for two games, but when he is on the ball I expect to see a player better than most, movement, control, desire, what's he like when things aren't going his way, what he does to get involved, we are talking 100m approx and for that I want a player that makes a difference and looks the part
 
any idea if he is going to be speaking at Dortmund's presser? would love to ask him about the old photos of him in city kits
 
Guscruz said:
I can’t believe people will really get me to start defending Mino fucking Raiola here. But I guess here we are.

There is legitimately nothing wrong what happened last week. NOTHING AT ALL. This is literally the same thing he and Alf did before he joined Dortmund. As far as we know, it is Alf who really wants to hear from the clubs interested on his son. And he should — if he eventually thinks that a different club is offering a better sporting project, then maybe that’s where he should advise his son to go.

If people still can’t figure out that the picture taken at Barcelona was a shameless set up by the Barcelona president, I also can’t help them. A little cynicism would have helped. There were no pictures taken at Madrid, no pictures taken in London. They were used. The same guy who knew when they would arrive to send them a car also let the paparazzi know... coincidentally a paparazzi from a media vehicle that has consistently put out his propaganda. At least we now know where Haaland will never play for.
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