Fair play, he's brilliant. Thank goodness he plays for them rather than Liverpool or Arsenal.
Nordic Ghost Yeti (Scandi Carroll) | Haaland at City
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It's very impressive what he's doing. Hyperbole it is not and never was. And this comment was from the first match of the season. He was never a fluke coming from Dortmund and his European scoring up to that time forced a second look. And then just his first match in the league, it made you think...yeah, never have seen this before and it's crazy what could happen.
All the physical traits and putting him in a City team under Pep, but he's got pure striker instincts added on top of it. Genuine class movement, anticipation and feel around the box.
That's half Messi's total in the 2011/12 season.
8 goals in 120 minutes wtf. Hopefully he has saved some for next week too.
Insane 
Imagine how many goals he’d have if Pep didn’t keep taking him off after an hour. I could genuinely see him scoring 7 or 8 goals in a game if he got the full 90.
And he will probably get an injury.
Well yes, I understand why he keeps coming off since the objective is to win football games. Wonder if it’s at all frustrating to him though.
The best strikers in the world score a goal a game. This freak seems to score a goal every 10 minutes.
I'm increasingly convinced that he's some kind of AI-driven football robot.
I'm increasingly convinced that he's some kind of AI-driven football robot.
How many hat tricks is that this season? It’s got to be a record? Mental form.
Yes, he is.
But he makes them worse apparently
Sickening that with a more competent ownership we could have signed him a couple of times. One of those players you would love at your club but otherwise has a massively punchable face.
We sent our scout Tommy Moller Nielsen to watch him at Molde when he was 17, he scored 4 goals in 20 minutes I think.
He should of been signed there and then, before the match was even over.
42 goals and 6 hat tricks already. Any debate about him to the negative is pointless.
In that season Messi scored 73 goals in 5,221 minutes. That's a goal every 72 minutes. Amazing.
So far Haaland has scored 42 goals in 2,871 minutes. That's a goal every 68 minutes....
He’s a robot, he must be, guys do you think he’s a robot? He’s a robot is Haaland. He’s not human, guys he’s not human is he? He’s a robot.
Annoying that he plays for that soul-less sham of a team..
Ole… you had one job…
Ole… you had one job…
Nice article on the Daily Mail website right now, saying Haaland might be great etc, but it's very hard to turn a blind eye to how City got to this point anymore given the investigation they are under.
A lot more of this moving forward from the media would be very nice.
A lot more of this moving forward from the media would be very nice.
He's actually scoring at just above par for the course really - historically 1 goal per game now up to about 1.13 due to City's ability to absolutely overwhelm.
What's actually impressive is that City have actually managed him tremendously well and he's almost certainly going to push past 50 games for the first time, since he's likely going to start almost every game left unless they truly fall out of PL contention, which would put at 52-56 games, when his previous highs for a club season were 40 and 41.
What's actually impressive is that City have actually managed him tremendously well and he's almost certainly going to push past 50 games for the first time, since he's likely going to start almost every game left unless they truly fall out of PL contention, which would put at 52-56 games, when his previous highs for a club season were 40 and 41.
I think the stats I'm looking at include internation football (Messi scored 9 for Argentina, including 6 in friendlies during that season). And they got Haaland at 40 (before today's goals). Also at 1 goal every 74 minutes... He has got to be at 68 with tonight. And even better ratio when you take away international football.
In terms of production, Messi was even better the year after. In 12/13 - Messi scored 60 goals in 4,070 minutes - a goal every 67.8 minutes. He would've broken his record from the year before if he didn't get injured.
easier to report when he doesnt get a hatrick.
He so good. He's destined to score a hat trick vs Bayern.
He's obviously great but I still don't think matches like Leipzig or Burnley prove the criticism wrong. Part of the truth is also that you could void 28 of his goals without changing one match outcome.
Player goals are no means in itself. It's fun seeing a player like this and thinking 'haha, he scored ANOTHER hattrick' in disbelieg to the point he almost becomes a meme but I still think people overlook the weaker aspects of his game because of it.
Anyway, hope he destroys Bayern next
Player goals are no means in itself. It's fun seeing a player like this and thinking 'haha, he scored ANOTHER hattrick' in disbelieg to the point he almost becomes a meme but I still think people overlook the weaker aspects of his game because of it.
Anyway, hope he destroys Bayern next
If that happens he might get a statue outside the Ethiad before the season finishes.
He's obviously great but I still don't think matches like Leipzig or Burnley prove the criticism wrong. Part of the truth is also that you could void 28 of his goals without changing one match outcome.
Player goals are no means in itself. It's fun seeing a player like this and thinking 'haha, he scored ANOTHER hattrick' in disbelieg to the point he almost becomes a meme but I still think people overlook the weaker aspects of his game because of it.
Anyway, hope he destroys Bayern next
In fairness, overlooking his weaknesses seem fair if he covers them in hattricks.
Guy is collecting matchballs to open his own ballpit
Ah right. Don't think the 40 would include Haaland's international goals this season though. Add them in and he's now on 48 (6 in 6 internationally). At any rate as a ratio he's keeping up with the best to ever do it having his best ever season.
76 games Messi played that season. Started in August, ended with a hat trick against Brazil in June. That's gotta be knackering. Unbelievable consistency.
Please calm down
He's scored more goals himself than we have scored in the league. Gulp.
Dortmund need charging for selling him for 51m to city, what was they thinking!
Dortmund need charging for selling him for 51m to city, what was they thinking!
No choice cause of release clause and there's no way they could match loyalty and agent fees on a new contract
If he blanks twice against Bayern and they lose the league to Arsenal, the questions will still remain no matter how many he puts past Leipzig and Burnley.
Not that it matters anyway, it’s all for nowt when you haven’t followed the rules.
Not that it matters anyway, it’s all for nowt when you haven’t followed the rules.
I wonder if Guardiola will go for a more traditional winger in the summer to get even more out of him. He's not opposed to it and used Douglas Costa especially quite well when he had Lewandowski.
Ive never seen anything like this in the PL. Insane goalscorer!
Haaland had always had a plan to develop this way. He was never going to a big club after Molde. It was a methodical approach and it obviously paid off for everyone involved in all his transfers. United and everybody knew about him. Blaming Ole and the club is stupid. All the other big clubs who could afford him missed out too and were stupid to not sign him...but only blame United?
Whatever. He actually makes it look too easy and I lose some appreciation as a result.
He's what Nunez thinks he is. Physical freak who can outrune and outmuscle himself into scoring positions.
He is a giant Inzaghi.
But Messi is Messi, not just a goal scorer. A genius of a footballer.
Halaand is like a perfect machine. Just so fecking efficient. But he doesn’t make football an art, like Messi does.