Welcome Erling Haaland | Signing confirmed on a 5 year deal

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simon23 said:
Of course the article makes perfect sense if you read the article...Im sure it will articulate it well.....here we go:

Nunez makes sense because:

1. He is a year older than Haaland - hmmm ok not much difference there - ah but does he have a better goals to game ration than Haaland at club or country level .....ah no.....oh ok so........

2. He is physically strong and quick and will adapt to the prem.....ah thats good....nut wait a minute....Isnt Haaland reknown for this.......hmmmm

3 He bullied Liverpool in the CL -......great....hm i seem to remember Haaland putting Dias on his arse and getting an assist for Dortmund against us....!

Ok so what next.....he is good with his feet (but not as good as Firmino or Mane - ah I can see this makes complete sense then (sarcasm!)
"More importantly, Nunez can not only link play and fashion deadly counter-attacks - he can also finish them." - oh ok thats a good trait....but wait a minute....isnt halland again Known for this?

"His 26 goals in 28 Liga Portugal games come with the usual warning of the competition not being the same standard as the Premier League.
And although Diaz was hugely impressive after his arrival in January, he was unable to hit the same numbers he was achieving for Porto."

So it doesnt quite as much sense as the headline says then according to this part of the artcile

But scoring six times in 10 games in your first season in the Champions League is no mean feat, which is what Nunez did.----- think Haaland holds the record for this doesnt he?

"Nevertheless, Nunez does not have the pedigree of Haaland. The Norwegian, despite being a year younger, has two and half seasons in a big five league and the Champions League already under his belt." ---- so again contrary to the headline

Where Nunez has been prolific for just one season, Haaland has been banging them in at a rate of better than a goal every other game for four campaigns.

The fact Nunez will cost considerably more than Haaland’s Borussia Dortmund buyout fee of £51m gives pause for thought. - ok DAN KING (reporter) - this is just getting silly now!!!!!!!

Yet for all the talk of City needing a centre forward, do they? And if they do, is Haaland the best fit?

City scored 99 Premier League goals last season, which doesn’t suggest a side struggling to find the net. Nor do you associate Pep Guardiola teams with players of Haaland’s size and physicality. - DIdnt Pep play with big strikers at Bayern Munich?!?!?!?!

"But in Nunez, it seems Klopp would have an oven-ready replacement for Mane and/or Firmino who could hit the ground running." - but you have literally said previously in the article that he is not ready and that he aint as good as Mane or Firmino when pointing out that Klopp improves players when they arrive - of something Pep has real pedigree in

So to some up why it Nunez to Liverpool makes more sense than Haaland to City is becuase

He is older, scores less, creates less, isnt as fast or strong, doesnt have the pedigree in terms of league of CL games currently, isnt a ready made replacement for the outgoing players, costs considerably more in initial outlay (£30m + more)

Whereas Haaland - is stronger, quicker, better goal scoring record in league and CL, cheaper, has played in a harder league while at Dortmund, has lived in the UK before and in terms of actual pedigree, his father is an ex pro footballer who has not only played in the league he is going to play in but also played for the club he has played for, knows the staff, the fans, the stadium (from both a players and fan perspective), is a fan of the club and is filling a ready made gap left by one of the best strikers ever seen in this country with a settled team behind him in KDB, Foden, Bernardo Silva, etc etc etc etc while Liverpool are losing one of their best players, with an ageing squad in VVD ( a key player for them) their main man in Salah running down his contract by the looks of it, Firmino how the article says is past his best days and a distinct lack of creativity in the midfield - and a tam who have not only just lost the prem league to us for the 4 time in 5 years (and by one point for the second time) but have also just lost a CL final that they should have won in reality

YEAH this transfer makes WAY MORE SENSE!!!!!!!!!!


Because of their appalling representation of what happened at Hilsborough and the subsequent reaction of all scousers and the public in general to the Sun newspaper after that (understandibly so)) with the Sunbeing pretty much banned on Merseyide - this rag of a newspaper has spent the last 30 odd years trying to suck up to the scousers so to increase their sales/clicks from that area of the world.

The real ammusing part is that we all know (except obviously the people in charge at the Sun) that scousers never forgive and forget and being the perenial victims that they are, will NEVER EVER forgive that rag of a publication


This article and this journo - whoever he is - is fucking hilarious!
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But apart from that......?
 
west didsblue said:
Sentimentality over a number is a bit daft especially as Sergio had 16 for half his City career including the most famous moment.
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Doesn't matter, excuse my ignorance (I'm usually dripping with it) but who wore 21, 45, 42, 16, 20, 17 etc before they were iconic city numbers?
 
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