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Nordic Ghost Yeti (Scandi Carroll) | Haaland at City
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Genuinely would still take Kane at Utd if he didn't have such injury issues with both ankles
He's a freak. Ridiculously good,might even get better. Also he scores goals at an all time clip, one of the greatest snipers ever at a young age. Hope he fecks off to Spain asap.
Sure he would Alan.
Not much of a slight really.
Lazy point to make especially given a certain Sergio Aguero was in that team not too far ago and putting up normal numbers.
Salah’s premier league goal scoring record is getting smashed this season by Haaland, no doubt
It's kinda funny seeing people pull out stats to prove Kane could have done it. It's not like Haaland was bettering them even before joining City or anything.
Besides, Kane, even the version in his physical prime, lacks the pace, agility and flexibility to get to the end of some of the chances Haaland is scoring from.
City is a one-man team now. No Haaland, no party.
I’d be interested to see how many meaningful, game winning goals Haaland has scored. His recent hat tricks are almost “pointless” and the very definition of stat padding.
So to answer the earlier post about having someone to compete with Haaland, it’s not that important. The other top teams need an efficient 20-25 goal striker to compete, they don’t need to out score him, they just need to score game winning goals.
So to answer the earlier post about having someone to compete with Haaland, it’s not that important. The other top teams need an efficient 20-25 goal striker to compete, they don’t need to out score him, they just need to score game winning goals.
These stats?
It’s hardly the most outlandish claim in the world. Kane is a phenomenal striker.
I belive leauge 1 was ranked 6 behind the Dutch or Portugese leauge last season so only 9 of Mbappes goals are in "top 5 leauge", but anyway Shearer got a point and Kane would also score a ton for City, but not sure he would score same ammount as Haaland have started on.
Kane 30 gamesThese stats?
It’s hardly the most outlandish claim in the world. Kane is a phenomenal striker.
Mbappe 27 games
Haaland 22 games
Kane is a phenomenal striker though.
That stuff is expensive isn’t it?
I think both ideas can be true:
Haaland is a superior and unique talent, who might be beyond unplayable once he hits his prime.
Kane could very well put up eye bulging numbers with KDB, Foden, Ilkay, Cancelo and company feeding him.
Haaland is a superior and unique talent, who might be beyond unplayable once he hits his prime.
Kane could very well put up eye bulging numbers with KDB, Foden, Ilkay, Cancelo and company feeding him.
He definitely would, he's an amazing striker but the numbers Haaland is putting up is unlike anything the league has seen. Kane is no better than prime Aguero so it's lazy to say Kane would have done it too especially as his physical prowess that's getting him a lot of the goals is something Kane just doesn't have.
He will probably go past Cavani this season and be in the top 20 goal-scorers when he’s only 22 years old. That’s an insane statistic.
And, If he does what he is doing for another two seasons, I will finally have seen a better number 9 than Ronaldo Nazario.
OG Ronaldo is much more technically enabled than Haaland
can't take the heat so you want him to fark off asap ?
His hat trick against Palace got us 3 points
His hat trick against United got us 3 points
He scored the winner against Dortmund
He scored both goals against West Ham
Anything else?
Ruud would score a huge amount of goals for any dominant team today. It's more a modern game thing. Put Haaland in any world class team from 20 - 30 years ago and he'd score nowhere near as much as he does now. The game favours attackers to make the sport more pleasing on the eye.
Hell, never mind strong tackles. A defender can hardly lean on an attacker without the foul being called. Smalling used to be super effective for us pushing up high and man handling attackers. When the FA changed the rules to be more stern with this, Smalling was nowhere near as effective.
It's why we think todays defenders are shit compared to the past and almost all the greats are from 10 years or more ago, they aren't actually allowed to defend like grown men nowadays.
This is really lazy and unfair.
Both goals vs West Ham (and won the penalty), in a game we were otherwise pretty bad in, so that's three points.
Scored the goal to spark the comeback from 3-1 down against Newcastle. That's another one.
We only thrashed Forest because he scored a hat-trick in the first half. The other three goals came after the game was already done and dusted, because of him. But we'd probably have won that game without him so I'll give you that one.
Scored the only City goal against Villa. One more.
Late winner vs Dortmund is worth 2 points.
We were trailing and playing badly against Palace when he scored the first of his hat-trick. Even if you assume we'd have leveled it up without him, that's two more points.
He was involved in five of our six goals against United. Unless we're saying every goal scored after it's already 1-0 is just 'stat-padding' he was the single most crucial part of that win.
He's made an enormous difference.
Only scores against the small clubs 
Tap in merchant. Always knew
Flat track bully
Only scores hattricks against shit teams
Useless. As I said earlier in the thread city will win nothing major with him in the team. He is holding them back.
I still think they'll win the league but the idea he was going to put them on an even higher level to what they were before him was nonsense.
Early days or not the fact they're 4 points of the top despite all the records he's breaking is testament to that.
I told you that Haaland's too one-dimensional to be a difference maker/big threat and that he needs to elevate his game. You guys were too distracted by tap-ins to notice.
It was also obvious that City are weaker this season. They didn't even need to face elite clubs... even an out of form, injury ridden Liverpool team managed to expose them.
They'll win nothing this season!
It was also obvious that City are weaker this season. They didn't even need to face elite clubs... even an out of form, injury ridden Liverpool team managed to expose them.
They'll win nothing this season!They don't look invincible. There are quite a few areas to exploit.
They will lose the odd game when the opponents treat it as their Ciup Final and get the run of the green as happened today.I told you that Haaland's too one-dimensional to be a difference maker/big threat and that he needs to elevate his game. You guys were too distracted by tap-ins to notice.
It was also obvious that City are weaker this season. They didn't even need to face elite clubs... even an out of form, injury ridden Liverpool team managed to expose them.
No worries.
Who do you think is going to win the league then? Arsenal? Spurs?
City are pretty obviously going to win it and Haaland is going to score 30+
he wasn't even bad against Liverpool, showed some quality at times but to be fair to them Liverpool defended well
City are not a better side than previous years.
People going to say he is a flop, only can scored against average and weak teams. Had no answer against strong team
I'm not surprised. His all round game is average and as much as people say it doesn't matter, it does. For his stat padding it might not. For him as a footballer it absolutely does.
I'm not sure if City are weaker than last season. If I'm not mistaken they started last season poorly? But I'm sure as a team they'd prefer a contribution from him in this game rather than piling on the misery on other well beaten teams
I'm not sure if City are weaker than last season. If I'm not mistaken they started last season poorly? But I'm sure as a team they'd prefer a contribution from him in this game rather than piling on the misery on other well beaten teams
They don't need to be, they won, what, 4-5 out of the last 6 PLs? They're just different with Haaland. They weren't exactly pulling trees last season either if I remember until they turned it up? Or maybe it's the season before that I'm confusing with.
I don't think Haaland is a flat-track bully though, he scored against big teams in the past, but I do think defenders and managers will learn better ways to neutralize him and he's not capable of scoring a goal on his own when the team is out of ideas and the opponent box is full of defenders. That's why, for as brilliant of a goal scorer as he is, I kind of roll my eyes at people who claim he's the best player in the world or even better than Benzema as a CF, or Mbappe as the best young player. He might get there, but I have a hard time seeing him develop the tools to be a game-breaking player that can affect the game on his own. I also don't really think he needs to. He will set himself up to be in teams that will focus on creating the chances for him and he'll put them away at a world-class level the likes we haven't seen. That's good enough for me.
The difference between his and Salah's impact on a game of this calibre was stark.
Haaland has no real individual quality except to get on the end of chances crafted by his team mates.
Haaland has no real individual quality except to get on the end of chances crafted by his team mates.
Just gotta laugh at the flip flopping in here. For weeks he is the best striker in the history of the game and after one quiet match he now has no skill or ability and is just a tap in merchant