Erling Haaland / signs for Dortmund
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You forgot the part where Haaland Snr told United to loan Mike Smalling so He wouldn't be stealing Haaland's spots in penalty area during corners.
Are people still going on about when the English four-piece band Keane tied Alf Haaland to a dentist's chair and took baseball bats to his right knee, while wearing Man Utd shirts and making Erling watch? For god's sake get over it.
Keane have released a new album and are out touring again. I doubt you hear many of their tunes in Germany, which is still dominated by David Hasselhoff.
That’s a far safer place for the young Haaland to play. Every time Haaland Snr. hears Somewhere Only We Know, he falls to the floor clutching his knee, that cannot be good for his son to see week in/ week out.
This is Eddie Izzard type comedy here
I heard he said no because Ole used the phrase "We're very keen to sign you" when they met up.
It's the type of stupid thing we would do though.
But didn’t give it to Herrera and re signed Jones
Removing the context of the player, would this not be the going rate for a starting striker of a team with top 4 / title aspirations?
Seems to be the par for us. We paid twice as much for that donkey Sanchez
Well done.
Has he signed his £500k a week deal at United yet?
It’s gone quiet since he and his dad went on the wind up before Xmas.
No, no. This thread is dead serious. You shouldn’t be starting rumours, though.
it’s not a rumour, I overheard a blonde man at an airport...
I hope we stay away and give more chances to Greenwood. Martial is a good enough ST and Greenwood is the future. We don't need another striker conundrum. Get a RW, CAM, CM or DM.
I’m dubious about these foreign next big thing players. Depay still grates with me. All the promise but I the end he was average at best. Seen a couple of videos of the Alfie’s lad but who was he playing against? Certainly wouldn’t spend £70m and £200k a week on such a youngster. What would you think if you were Mason Greenwood and this lad turned up on much more money?
We should still go for him if he wants to come here because we need a squad & a good collection of different quality strikers - I reckon Ole is building towards a 352
Rashford/Martial - Haaland/Greenwood
--------------------Sancho/Martial--------------
Mcneil - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - James
I think that's manageable as a squad.
Do you not remember when Martial was injured? Greenwood is good but not ready for that kind of responsibility yet. And when we change Martial, the game dies.
We need another striker, whether it's Haaland or not. There's enough gametime to go around.
Cake or death ...... or Haaland?This is Eddie Izzard type comedy here
Need a new left back and a couple of CM's before we add to the front line. Greenwood is class anyway. He's a goal scoring prodigy. Only Sancho scored more goals this season out of any teenager.
Haaland is still a teenager.
For me, he gets on the end of that McTominay cross in the first half.
I think it was Europe's biggest leagues. Didn't include the Austrian league.
Gotcha
I'm really struggling to understand the logic behind some of the arguments against signing Haaland. Just look at the state of the attackers we had on the pitch in the last 25-30 minutes. Absolutely shocking quality and real lack of depth. Haaland gives us a proper option and he adds much needed depth to the forward department. We can't compete just with the ones we have. That's asking for trouble with injuries, burnout, complacency etc.
Some people seem to think that forwards are like goalkeepers, that you only can use one at a time and the others have to rot on the bench. A club like United should be playing 55+ games every season. Assuming a best case scenario where we have double cover in every position and miraculously no injuries at all through the season, that still means 40+ appearances for even the bench attackers.
Some people seem to think that forwards are like goalkeepers, that you only can use one at a time and the others have to rot on the bench. A club like United should be playing 55+ games every season. Assuming a best case scenario where we have double cover in every position and miraculously no injuries at all through the season, that still means 40+ appearances for even the bench attackers.
Yeah look at our midfield, we need some other bodies.
Rashford, James, Martial, Grenwood and Haaland would be ideal. They would compete for places and we would have cover for injuries. Then for the big games, the players playing best get the call.
Sees a good step forward to me. Now about the CM position during this window...
Rashford, James, Martial, Grenwood and Haaland would be ideal. They would compete for places and we would have cover for injuries. Then for the big games, the players playing best get the call.
Sees a good step forward to me. Now about the CM position during this window...
If we do bring him to the club then all well and good but a player that has scored a lot of goals in the Norwegian and Swiss leagues hardly gets my pulse racing and I think Mame Diouf was prolific in Norway before we brought him in and that did not really work out.
I am all for bringing in potential but when we talk upwards of 50mil that is just crazy. Surely Dembele from Lyon is a better option as the league is a decent standard and he was good in the second tier in England and did well for Celtic and would be cheaper if reports are to be believed.
I am all for bringing in potential but when we talk upwards of 50mil that is just crazy. Surely Dembele from Lyon is a better option as the league is a decent standard and he was good in the second tier in England and did well for Celtic and would be cheaper if reports are to be believed.
What an absolute trainwreck of a post. Swiss league....
This thread is a good indicator of whose opinions can be ignored. How anyone would say no to a talent like that is beyond me when we are one injury away from not scoring goals again.
It’s the type of stupid things our fans would believe
A midfield actually nullifies all the issues we had with Martial being out because with proper creativity in midfield even Rashford would be able to play as a CF again and Greenwood would also have an easier task there.
Right now Martial role is elevated because he tends to drop deep in midfield thus helping our inept midfield creativity(Lingard and Perreira guilty of this) thus his role becoming even more essential because he's now tasked with making things happen for other forwards/attacking players.
But once you have a good and creative midfield we can play any type of striker there, not only one that can hold up play and drop deep to help create. Therfore Rashford becomes an option again as CF and Greenwood can also be trusted in there despite his young age.
Honestly, wanting a new striker shouldn't even be a topic when we technically have 3 strikers in the squad in Martial, Greenwood and Rashford. These talks have crept in only because our lack of creativity which led to lack of goals sometimes make it seems we don't have goalscorers which isn't actually the case. Creativity is what doing us in.
The reason I want Haaland here is because we have one left footed attacker in the whole squad & we desperately need another one. Nearly everyone bar Greenwood is right footed.
Buying another striker ahead of a midfielders/RW will be so typical of Man Utd that I half expect it will happen.
Who to say that our targeted midfielders are available in this window? Based on your logic we should ignore and give up on other players simply because we HAVE to wait until the priority CM / RW are bought in?
And can you remind me when the last time we bought a striker and still play for us?
we had Pereira, Mata, Lingard yesterday playing against Newcastle and few think we shouldn't sign CF (who is available for around 20 million).
I agree that midfield is our priority. The type of midfielder we need is not available in Jan, unless we throw silly money at Bruno (who seems like a great player, but the fact that he had no real interest from any teams in the summer should have alarm bells ringing).
I disagree that Rashford could do it, even with proper service. He just doesn't have the positioning, runs and consistent first touch to be a deadly CF. He's doing wonders out wide and has finally made that position his. No reason to move him.
At the rumoured release clause, Haaland is a no brain buy. Despite CF not being a priority, we will require additions there at some point soon and we'd be silly not to get him at such a low price whilst he's available.
I honestly think it'll be Haaland or nothing in Jan.
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