Harry Kane

BlueDejong said:
I don't understand the Haaland fanboys...
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What is a fan boy in this context? Someone who'd like to sign him?
Someone who copies his hairstyle? Dress sense? Willing to name their first child after him? I need to know these things before I place myself in the fan boy category.
 
BillyShears said:
Personally I think people get far too invested in single transfers. I've seen it year on year on Bluemoon and it is very rare that the players we miss out on goes on to have the impact that they are supposed to have. I keep referring to this because it is probably the best example. We signed Gundo the summer Pogba went to United and some people on here had a minor meltdown because Pogba was the only player on the planet who could replace Yaya. In football things just don't work like that.

Haaland won't stop us continuing to win PL titles regularly or get to the latter stages of the CL regularly. Missing out on a player is irrelevant when you're run as well as we are and you have a squad as good as ours.
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Two names: Van Persie and Hazard.

Missing out on them saw United win a title they'd otherwise have had no hope of winning, and saw Chelsea rebuild themselves into a title winning side again.

I think Haaland will have a similar impact for whoever he joins, and I really fear we'll live to regret standing idly by and allowing him to join a rival, in preference of Kane.
 
Phil Mitchell Foden said:
Two names: Van Persie and Hazard.

Missing out on them saw United win a title they'd otherwise have had no hope of winning, and saw Chelsea rebuild themselves into a title winning side again.

I think Haaland will have a similar impact for whoever he joins, and I really fear we'll live to regret standing idly by and allowing him to join a rival, in preference of Kane.
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I'm not afraid of him going anywhere and I don't agree with those examples. Neither of those players to my mind have massively impacted what City went on to do. We lost the title in 12/13 because of Mancini.
 
EricBrooksGhost said:
Not like you to go over the top about Manchester.
Yeah it's not utopia, no one says it is.
Thing is I have two work colleagues from Lisbon who are making a good living here and are planning to buy a house.
Be amazed.
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It's still highly unusual and even more so during this pandemic when friends and family are far apart.
 
BillyShears said:
I'm not afraid of him going anywhere and I don't agree with those examples. Neither of those players to my mind have massively impacted what City went on to do. We lost the title in 12/13 because of Mancini.
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Van Persie singlehandedly won an awful United side the title in 2013, if we'd signed him that wouldn't have happened. As much as everything crumbled with Mancini/the dressing room at the time.

Hazard won two titles with Chelsea and was a key player in both those sides. Not sure how you conclude that him not joining us didn't have an impact on us or Chelsea.
 
Phil Mitchell Foden said:
Two names: Van Persie and Hazard.

Missing out on them saw United win a title they'd otherwise have had no hope of winning, and saw Chelsea rebuild themselves into a title winning side again.

I think Haaland will have a similar impact for whoever he joins, and I really fear we'll live to regret standing idly by and allowing him to join a rival, in preference of Kane.
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Good point on the surface, however it wasn’t missing out on them players that put us a step behind. It was the shite recruitment from ourselves in general, we missed out on both hazard and van persie in the same summer and signed a load of crap like Maicon, Scott Sinclair and Javi Garcia. Our two competitors moved forward while we stood still. Since then we’ve still been more successful than the two clubs them players headed off to.

City have certainly learned that we need to continue to strengthen while on top. If we don’t sign haaland but sign kane it’s no big deal and still excellent recruitment that fills a massive gap in the squad with a world class player. Kane will give us probably 5 years of goals up top. Obviously theres potential that haaland in 5 years time will be a better striker than Kane but that’s not guaranteed, and it’s also not guaranteed he’d offer us more than 5 years which has been alluded to as one of the perks to sign haaland.

I think kanes more suited to our side currently and a better all round player than haaland currently is, while also not bringing the baggage of Raiola. The way I see it, haaland is a very very exciting player, more so than Kane, but in terms of efficieny and being the better player and fit for this city team currently, Kane walks all over him imo.
 
Phil Mitchell Foden said:
Van Persie singlehandedly won an awful United side the title in 2013, if we'd signed him that wouldn't have happened. As much as everything crumbled with Mancini/the dressing room at the time.

Hazard won two titles with Chelsea and was a key player in both those sides. Not sure how you conclude that him not joining us didn't have an impact on us or Chelsea.
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As I said, I don't think those players effected City's future in any way shape or form. You can disagree but I'll count all the trophies we've won in the last decade and be very comfortable in my opinion that single players make fuck all difference in the medium term.
 
Damocles said:
I wore a United shirt once. It was the United goalkeeper top in about 1995 that had Sharp Viewcam on it and was given to me by a mate's Dad to wear as my regular top was soaked in mud. I still think about the shame of it sometimes.
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Fuck that would have rather wore the mud than anything with that shit on
 
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