At some point some freak will come along who ends the game of football as a contest. Like they literally get a sight of goal and score. Put the ball wherever they want whenever they want.
Nordic Ghost Yeti (Scandi Carroll) | Haaland at City
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Find it funny people creaming them selves over his scoring, when Ronaldo was notching over a goal a game for Real, he was just labelled a stat padder for doing it against the CL canon fodder.
Haaland is really good and his numbers this season are remarkable, if he continues it for the next ten years he could be the greatest striker ever. I do think he benefits from the game being less physical now and there not being many really aggressive and strong defenders out there capable of handling him.
That record was achieved in 39 games too. If he stays fit he'll break all the records he wants to. And a lot of it is down to playing in what is arguably the best team in Europe that routinely dominates teams and provides him immaculate service. But still, quite incredible.
He did, his names Cristiano Ronaldo
United fans have been beaten into submission and are now bringing out the pom poms out for a City striker.
What a horrible timeline
What a horrible timeline
Given Aguero and Jesus (both are/were good to extremely good players) didn't break the all the records while they played for city, i would say Haaland deserved the credit.
On track for 8 million career goals
Yeah, freak of nature.
Yes it's quite sad isn't it.
Dont think this release clause is big deal for City. They are being run by a filthy rich Oil state. They can give Haaland billions by some other means and it would make no difference to their owner. If Haaland continues like he is doing at the moment, i expect him to be at City for a very long time
5 in 3 UCL games. You’d expect City to go deep into the competition.
Ronaldo’s record of the most goals in a champions league season (17) will be under threat.
Ronaldo’s record of the most goals in a champions league season (17) will be under threat.
Its just fecking stupid 
That record will be broken pretty soon anyway. More teams and games in the competition from 2024.
Ah yes good point. These competition changes devalue the achievements some of the greats did!
Aside from goals is there anything special about what he is doing? He’s not someone you turn the TV to watch
Maybe watch Golf instead mate.
You can add fans of the rest of the league to that. My dads a casual fan and rarely expresses much emotion about individual players. He didn’t know a thing about haaland till he signed for city that’s how disconnected he is. Now every time I see him he’s telling me how incredible and beautiful it is to see something like haaland in the league.
I imagine there’s plenty of people who’ll tune in to city games just to see him score.
Aside from goals? Everyone watches football for the goals mate. There’s a reason why strikers are the most popular players world wide. What a wild take. This guy is on a path to score more goals in a season than pretty much anyone before him, in what is apparently the toughest league in the world, and people are still thinking there’s nothing special about it
That depends, if pep decides to stay he might just decide to have an extended spell in the PL. He’s seen the level of service he’s going to get and that hasn’t changed before now so isn’t going to change whilst peps there.
He’s definitely going to swan off elsewhere at some point though. He seems like he wants to do the Ibra route, he’ll go to Madrid then Milan and presumably PSG if he bothers with the French league.
I wonder will City score more goals with him in the side overall…in the league they score about 100 goals as a team.
It will be interesting to see if Haaland just scores a big percentage of those goals without the combined total being any higher.
It will be interesting to see if Haaland just scores a big percentage of those goals without the combined total being any higher.
Where is Keano's son???
No ... mainly because Pep will want him well rotated at the end of the season to keep him fit and hungry for the CL. But Pep will definitely give him enough games so he can break Salah's record.
Er what? Ronaldo was one of the best 2 players by an absolute distance for basically everyone when doing exactly what you describe. All modern players are stat padders to a degree, it's hardly a disservice to them, only genuinely great players/athletes get that 'criticism'.
Harry Kane must be crying himself to sleep every night
Broke his leg, ended his career. Karma, or something.
I’m a little bit worried about what he’s going to do against us in 10 days.
I wonder what his relationship is with his brother (who is also his agent)? I think his brother was blamed for not having definite terms in his contract.
I bet he would have been shit here at United. We are capable of doing that to any good player.
It’ll probably be on porn hub
Blame the clowns at the club who wouldn't listen
Only because we should have moved heaven and earth to make him our player not folded at the mention of a release clause. I understood refusing for Reguilon but not for this guy.
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No chance
Bolt's acceleration over the first 30 yards isn't that good. What made him the best was that he kept accelerating long after everyone else had reached top speed and his speed endurance was better than everyone else by a mile.Even 1cm lower
And when city does have a bigger goal number than usual… i imagine people say, “yeah but the team got better overall” or “the rest of the PL teams have gotten more shyte..”.
Credits are were credits are due… this cnut is a freak of nature, nothing less than that. Actually, it doesnt even hurt that much, he is theirs atm knowing that United doesnt have a slight chance at the title.
It’s not (just) Haaland. What you have is a very carefully curated Man City team which - under Pep - is a different beast to anything we saw before in the PL. It’s the old Barcelona tiki-taka dominance but with Pep having had 10+ years to truly perfect it, and an open chequebook to build the perfect team.
Enter Haaland, one of the most complete and clinical strikers we have seen in a long time, whose sole job in the team (unlike any of their previous strikers) is to simply convert those chances. It’s a perfect storm.
Enter Haaland, one of the most complete and clinical strikers we have seen in a long time, whose sole job in the team (unlike any of their previous strikers) is to simply convert those chances. It’s a perfect storm.
He would still be at City right now even if we had signed him. He’d have done his 2 years here and moved on, which is exactly why we didn’t sign him.
An open chequebook. But yet, still do fantastic business signing guys for cheap such as Alvarez, Gomez and Akanji who come in and look fantastic. While other teams spend way more on players who ride the bench.
might not have made us title contenders but would have guaranteed top four - this guy not only scores half chances, he seems to score from 1% chances. Have to admit, he's wonderful to watch. Let's just be grateful he seemed to give the dippers even less thought than he did us!