Erling Haaland

[Kompany Car]

The financials would stack up even more when we do sell Raheem for £50m and lose his £300k a week.

Granted, Sergio's wages were absorbed by Grealish, but £14.4m per year freed up on Sterling is not to be sniffed at.

We were going to hand Kane £300k a week and also pay a £100m transfer, so even my fag packet maths, says we can do £600k a week wages no problem, whatsoever.

Add the circa £50m Sterling fee to the supposed £100m saved on not signing Kane, and even Haaland's £65m release leaves us the best part of another £85m to play with.

That's more than enough to absorb the related costs and massive signing wedge on top of Haaland's weekly £600k.

Even reading that back has convinced me the finances give us a real fighting chance!!!!

Ahem there's also erm Mendy's wage. We will however need a replacement for fern when he hangs up his boots at the end of the season.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Cancelo's playing as good as any LB we could conceivably sign and we have Zinchenko who's barely kicked a ball this season, who was our first choice LB last season and completely solid in our European run.

Wilson-Esbrand also looked pretty tidy in his cameo.

It's an area we can improve on at some point, but it isn't a glaring weakness.

The glaring weakness was Pep continuing to persist with Mendy.

We only have 3 fb's in the squad, so either the kid is given a proper chance or we need to sign one.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Paying someone 600k a week will surely rock the apple cart when it comes to other players negotiating their contracts. I dont think it's quite as easy as some make out.

 

[cityboy1]

Paying someone 600k a week will surely rock the apple cart when it comes to other players negotiating their contracts. I dont think it's quite as easy as some make out.

at some point we need to break our wage limit to remain competitive in the future 400k a week can't be our limit forever haaland is already one of the best strikers in the world hes worth us paying a lot more than what we normally pay players.

 

[hilts]

Paying someone 600k a week will surely rock the apple cart when it comes to other players negotiating their contracts. I dont think it's quite as easy as some make out.

I can’t inagine we would pay the fee or the wages, there is some desperation in people keep pushing this. I would imagine the club are looking elsewhere.

 

[hilts]

at some point we need to break our wage limit to remain competitive in the future 400k a week can't be our limit forever haaland is already one of the best strikers in the world hes worth us paying a lot more than what we normally pay players.

If Haaland had never been born would we be stuffed? No is the obvious answer, if he signs for another club should we turn the lights off? No is the obvious answer. We will do fine without him. In fact if we can get 3 players instead for the same price the team as a whole could do even better than if we spunked daft money on him.

 

[Tartarian Blue]

Paying someone 600k a week will surely rock the apple cart when it comes to other players negotiating their contracts. I dont think it's quite as easy as some make out.

Well every single attacking player has had a year now to step in and do the striker's job and failed. So I'm not sure how any of them will be able to successfully argue during their next negotiation they should be paid like a striker. "Different gravy" as someone said.

 

[LucahArchie10]

The financials would stack up even more when we do sell Raheem for £50m and lose his £300k a week.

Granted, Sergio's wages were absorbed by Grealish, but £14.4m per year freed up on Sterling is not to be sniffed at.

We were going to hand Kane £300k a week and also pay a £100m transfer, so even my fag packet maths, says we can do £600k a week wages no problem, whatsoever.

Add the circa £50m Sterling fee to the supposed £100m saved on not signing Kane, and even Haaland's £65m release leaves us the best part of another £85m to play with.

That's more than enough to absorb the related costs and massive signing wedge on top of Haaland's weekly £600k.

Even reading that back has convinced me the finances give us a real fighting chance!!!!

Dino wages + we will move a couple more out in the Summer inc Sandler, Poro, Mendys wages will be gone 100% then of course will we keep Berny & Laporte?

 

[cityboy1]

If Haaland had never been born would we be stuffed? No is the obvious answer, if he signs for another club should we turn the lights off? No is the obvious answer. We will do fine without him. In fact if we can get 3 players instead for the same price the team as a whole could do even better than if we spunked daft money on him.

we dont really need 3 other players we need a striker and hes the best option. Obviously we can survive without him but wouldn't it be great for us to just buy a world class player not by someone who we need to spend time developing. Obviously he'd need to adapt to us and the league but he would be great for us imo.

 

[Semper aggressus]

If Haaland had never been born would we be stuffed? No is the obvious answer, if he signs for another club should we turn the lights off? No is the obvious answer. We will do fine without him. In fact if we can get 3 players instead for the same price the team as a whole could do even better than if we spunked daft money on him.

I disagree, because we’re already so good in every other position it would be very difficult to improve on what we already have. No point signing three players, who would we replace? It’d be a waste spending £150m or whatever on positions already good enough.

All we need is a proper, top class striker, which we need to focus our efforts and money on.

 

[LucahArchie10]

It doesn't need to be complicated in the first instance. Sign the boy and the sponsorships will come as a matter of his global following and City winning trophies all over the shop.

It's time to stop fucking about, forget holistic.

The time is now. Time to leave our morals at the bank vault door and get this deal sealed whatever it takes.

Failure is not an option.

PUMA would want this kid for the next 10 years?

 

[hilts]

we dont really need 3 other players we need a striker and hes the best option. Obviously we can survive without him but wouldn't it be great for us to just buy a world class player not by someone who we need to spend time developing. Obviously he'd need to adapt to us and the league but he would be great for us imo.

You can’t say we don’t need other players and then factor in affording because raz, Dinho Bernie and Laporte leave. It may happen but if he is that good we will have competition and silly season will erupt. The chances aren’t high as with a lot of transfers.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I disagree, because we’re already so good in every other position it would be very difficult to improve on what we already have. No point signing three players, who would we replace? It’d be a waste spending £150m or whatever on positions already good enough.

All we need is a proper, top class striker, which we need to focus our efforts and money on.

Fern replacement, Rodri can't play 60 games, we only have 3 full backs, not enough over a season, unless we are very lucky with injuries. So the club either trust the kids to step up, or go into the market.

 

[cityboy1]

You can’t say we don’t need other players and then factor him affording because raz, Dinho Bernie and Laporte leave. It may happen but if he is that good we will have competition and silly season will erupt. The chances aren’t high as with a lot of transfers.

Raz is third choice on both wings hes only playing right now because we have no striker. He won't need replacing in the squad. I dont think berny will leave tbh. Laporte could go either way but if he keeps getting game time i can't see him wanting to leave unless madrid come with a big offer. We will need to replace ferny in the squad ill give you that but we could just promote lavia to second choice. I dont see what else we really need more than a striker and again haaland is the best option for that position. imo haaland is the one of the few players who can really replace aguero.

 

[hilts]

Fern replacement, Rodri can't play 60 games, we only have 3 full backs, not enough over a season, unless we are very lucky with injuries. So the club either trust the kids to step up, or go into the market.

In fairness we have 1 actual full back

 

[cityboy1]

In fairness we have 1 actual full back

Cancelo and walker?

 

[hilts]

Raz is third choice on both wings hes only playing right now because we have no striker. He won't need replacing in the squad. I dont think berny will leave tbh. Laporte could go either way but if he keeps getting game time i can't see him wanting to leave unless madrid come with a big offer. We will need to replace ferny in the squad ill give you that but we could just promote lavia to second choice. I dont see what else we really need more than a striker and again haaland is the best option for that position. imo haaland is the one of the few players who can really replace aguero.

I agree about raz point taken however your hopes for the rest don’t mean much and relying on youngsters coming through is folly how many have in the last 10 years?

I’m not saying I don’t want him, we need a striker but not at any cost either financial or weakening other positions. Look at it as a bonus rather than a need.

 

[hilts]

Cancelo and walker?

Walker is our actual fullback I see Cancelo and zinc on the left as more doing a job because Mendy became a disaster.

 

[cityboy1]

I agree about raz point taken however your hopes for the rest don’t mean much and relying on youngsters coming through is folly how many have in the last 10 years?

I’m not saying I don’t want him, we need a striker but not at any cost either financial or weakening other positions. Look at it as a bonus rather than a need.

What do you think we should do about our striker situation out of curiosity? Stick with the false 9?

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

In fairness we have 1 actual full back

Not really, we have 3, non of who are alike in style and all do a decent job.

Don't forget next season is the Qatar WC in Nov/Dec, fuck knows how many of our players get through that unscathed. Squad depth will be more important than ever next season.