It's not any different for those players, people were saying the exact same thing about Haaland prior to his City move. It's childish to think that way.
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He's so good.
He might just come good in time.
What hurts most is he could have been playing for us. However he wouldn’t get the same sort of clinical service.
He'd be worse off playing for us.
I'd hate to see that type of a players career regress. I mean we managed to make Ronaldo look like shite.
If Butt is responsible for this feck up then no wonder he has left the club, clearly didn't want to see him ripping us to pieces so walked away
How on earth Rashford beats him for player of the month
Yeah that's down to someone in our scouting team who turned down opportunity to sign him at Molde. Could have signed for absolute peanuts but no our clueless clowns were blind to talent.
Ok.
Someone at this club knows it's on them, really hope they are hanging their head in shame
He’s a year older going along with 100% health compared to an injury interrupted season last year. He’s definitely improved.
don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest a 21 year old will improve playing for a superstar coach and a superstar team.
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He for sure has some weaknesses, but he overcomes them with pure footballing brutality.
Yeah weaknesses Utd thought couldn't be overcome later in career,fuming at such stupidity.
so he will fail badly at united ?
Does he make passes/assist like he did last night when he was at Dortmund and Norway ?
Haaland may well go on to become the outright greatest goalscorer in history. The second coming of Gerd Muller. His goalscoring talent is undeniable. But his lack of ability in other areas means there will always be a few who will be considered better footballers.
Ofcourse in a perfect team, like City under Guardiola, he is thriving but should he play for a team that requires him to do more, he would definitely find it much tougher and may even struggle.
Ofcourse in a perfect team, like City under Guardiola, he is thriving but should he play for a team that requires him to do more, he would definitely find it much tougher and may even struggle.
Dortmund chief Hans-Joachim Watzke, speaking just two weeks ago, confirmed what sources had indicated two years back. "We gave Erling Haaland a release clause, otherwise he would have gone to Manchester United," Watzke said.
You buy him for 20 mil, have him 3 years and then he will maybe stay and maybe not. If not, you get 60 mil for him.
But noooooooo, we are big Man Utd. We don't put release clauses in contract. We have our dignity.
And the sad part; if we signed him then, he would maybe leave this summer but not in City.
Our worst transfer call ever. We missed on a player and he ended in biggest rival.
Haaland only has 30 games left to get 9 goals in order to equal last seasons’ Golden Boot total of 23.
Is he already as good as prime C.Ronaldo as a goal scorer?
The last part is pivotal. He wouldn't have been at city if we signed him
He had 3 long injuries last season with BVB, with his body type and wight it is almost impossible to avoid muscular injuries. City are lucky Norway is not playing in the World Cup and he will be home chilling.
What if he wanted to go to city after united? That would have been the biggest embarrassment in history of football.
Haaland is an incredible player playing in the best coached team in the world. He wouldn't have struggled to fit in with any PL side really as he's just that good but in that city side he was always going to be a monster.
He should set his target higher. how about break the most epl goals in a season record ?
Haaland is an exception of the last few years how many players have successfully made an immediate impact coming from the Bundesliga into the premier league ?
Even more recently the likes of Ndombele who had some fantastic performances in the UCL for Lyon fell apart at Spurs. I think Haalands movement is what will allow him to excel irrespective of whatever domestic league he's in. I would take KDB over Neymar and Messi without hesitation. He not only plays at a higher level more consistently but performs. He's city's most influential player since Pep has taken over.
He's probably the most one dimensional 'great' player of all time. I've no doubts he'd have been a failure at United due to his limitations.
What limitations does he have?
He's good on the ball, strong, quick, reads the game, timing of runs is exceptional, deadly finishing, can hold the ball up, can lay the ball off brilliantly, works hard,
What limitations are you seeing?
just noticed, he's now got 82.1% ownership in FFL, that's surely some kind of record.
It feels like you can forget about FPL for a week this season but as long as you have Jesus and Haaland as captain it doesn't matter.
Would've been hounded out because he doesn't press like Kante and doesn't link up play like Ibrahimovic.
Our fans would've been looking across the road as Guardiola would've continued to use a false 9 and still be successful - and then come to the conclusion, you can't succeed without a false 9 type of striker.
He has 21 in 23 for Norway, a team even more dysfunctional than United. Sure. He would probably not have 17 in 11 for United, but he would still be bagging goals at a very good rate.
Yes, he does. Quick 1-2s, squaring it to better placed teammates, crossing it and the occasional threaded through ball.
He's made 33 assists since he exploded at Salzburg at the start of the 19/20 season and has had an assistratio of 0,31 assists per 90 minutes.
The other really good #9s out there:
Harry "when passing becomes art" Kane had an assistratio of 0,22 assists per 90 minutes (30 assists) in the same period.
Karim "Soon to become B d'or winner" Benzema had an assistratio of 0,26 assists per 90 minutes (36 assists) in the same period.
Rob "should have won the B d'or" Lewandowski had an assistratio of 0,21 assists per 90 minutes (28 assists) in the same period.
CR7 had an assistratio of 0,11 assists per 90 minutes (14 assists) in the same period.
Mo Salah had an assistratio of 0,27 assists per 90 minutes (39 assists) in the same period.
The assistkings in the same period:
Mbappe is on 0,44 assists per 90 minutes
Messi is on 0,48
KDB is on 0,53
Muller is on 0,61
He is definitely more than just a goalscorer. He is extremely direct in his style and doesn't need many involvement to have massive impact
A fair few players have already scored multiple hat tricks in one game. Frankie Bunn did it many years ago for Oldham.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...goals_in_an_association_football_game#England
It wouldn't have mattered because we would still be a poor team. And just because of that he would've been a 'problem'. The caf would've wanted to straight swap him for Jesus
He’s made it boring IMO.
Who is actively playing it and doesn’t have him as captain?
17.9% of players are either thick as mince or have stopped playing.
haha think there is something in that, last couple of seasons when I've had a disaster couple of weeks I've sacked it off
Hypothetically speaking, if he leaves City in few years time, he wouldn’t break all those PL records.
He could be one day
but right now such suggestions are bizarre, he hasn’t even finished his first season in the EPL yet, and in the Bundesliga his highest League goals tally was 27
Ronaldo’s was 48 in La Liga then 35, then 25, then 26
Let’s judge him over the seasons
not 8/9 games
he’s started like a madman though and looks at this stage to be capable of blowing all records out the building