He will be benched eventually
Nordic Ghost Yeti (Scandi Carroll) | Haaland at City
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I don't see how he doesn't get benched unless he makes improvements to his all-round game.
Right now, he's too one-dimensional to make a difference in key games and Baldy knows it. Alvarez will be doing heavy lifting.
He will be top scorer in the Premiership if he stays free of injury. We need a CF of this calibre if we are to have any chance of catching the top 3/4 teams here.
Hope he gets kicked all over the pitch at OT. He won't because our players are spineless cowards.
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Roy Keane to come out of retirement for one game?
Even if he provides his sperm and we just place it on the pitch it would show more intent and desire.
I can see him being the PL best scorer but City as a team scoring overall less goals because of them focusing it all on him.
Looks scary fast and big on the pitch.
Shame we had the chance and turned big headed.
Looks scary fast and big on the pitch.
Shame we had the chance and turned big headed.
Which will go to my point about the amount of cards he’ll cause the opposition to give up. But, you have to catch him first…
Who? ….struggling to think of one
I'll be shocked is Maguire gets close enough to even try it
There isn't one. There is a serious lack of CF depth right now. Haaland is alone.
Aye, banging the ball into the back of the net is a real head scratching issue.
Are you serious? He should’ve had a hat trick against Liverpool if not for one of the worst finishing games of his life. On another day, people would be talking about how Van Dijk couldn’t get near him. Also, West Ham away is probably the 5th toughest away game in the league for City…it nearly cost them the title last season.
Id love for him to flop, but it ain’t gonna happen.
Why?
He's not exactly Mbappe quickWhich will go to my point about the amount of cards he’ll cause the opposition to give up. But, you have to catch him first…
I do find it really funny that all the super smart, never wrong posters on this forum are convinced that you don’t need number 9s to win anymore. City get this guy who will score a ton, Nunez at pool looks like he will get a decent chunk and we know lewa at barca will score. All the best teams want a prolific striker but people on here are convinced the game has “evolved”.
The game has changed, but its always going to be about putting the balls more times in the opposition’s net to win. Strikers tend to do that.
The game has changed, but its always going to be about putting the balls more times in the opposition’s net to win. Strikers tend to do that.
They said identical things about Aguero. He scored a huge amount under Pep, including loads against the top sides. Pep is just much more adaptable than people want to believe.
I don't think I've seen anyone here or elsewhere say that, what most people are saying is that football has evolved from the Inzaghi/Trezeguet type of target men and that's true.
As for needing a pure striker to score a lot of goals, City already showed that they could outscore every other team in Europe in the course of a whole season without a striker, but that didn't mean they didn't need/want a very good one.
He doesn’t need to be. All that matters is how much faster he is than the defenders and how threatened they are by that, which will induce chaos.
Not true. I’ve had multiple people tell me that days of playing with a 9 are gone, pointing to how pep and klopp play. And they’ve both gone out and bought number 9s. The days of playing with someone like Inzaghi/Chica type players have been gone for the last 15 years, so that is literally nothing new.
Can see him scoring 40 goals this season
In terms of making impact at such a young age, Haaland is definitely up there with the very best. I’d say R9 and then Haaland is the best I’ve ever seen. Apparently Haaland is nowhere as talented or skillful as R9, but his strength/speed/goalscoring/ability to bully any defenders is something out of this world.
Frightening? Good lord the hyperbole is insane. The entire league apparatus, pundits, fans are all jizzing over this guy. WHU were pushed up the pitch at 1-0 down and got caught on transition, no one talks about this when Vardy does it.
I'd say he's not as good as Lewa was at Dortmund tbh:
https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bunde...ssia-dortmund-years-klopp-bayern-munich-18081
https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bunde...ssia-dortmund-years-klopp-bayern-munich-18081
I'm just reading the tea leaves.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...iverpool-man-city-haaland-nunez-b2138136.html
Because Vardy regularly goes on a run of 1 goal in 10 games and everyone's fed up with him by the end of it. He's a big part of why Leicester reliably have dreadful patches every single season.
Given you're looking at the recent couple of seasons when he's mid thirties.
Tell me, who holds the record for most consecutive games scored?
Maybe look outside of Europe.?
And you don't think that's going to happen to a lot of teams?
Haaland is very very fast.
If they sprint half a field, i actually think Haaland would get over first.
Nope, there isn’t anyone ….he’s a one of a kind.
He's very quick. But Mbappe is electric, Henry like speed.
Not much in i think - though Mbappe is definitely quicker with the ball at his feet.
Yes, but then there are multiple strikers who are great at that and have had massive success with that. Like Jamie Vardy.
I think if they had a foot race people would be surprised. Mbappe would win but it would be neck and neck.
Mbappe is much faster with the ball mind.
Salah or Haaland for captain in the next fantasy football fixtures?
I don't think anyone denies that Jamie Vardy was a good/great striker. Aubameyang is another one.
Man City have a 22 year old striker, who's base level is already at Jamie Vardy's best. The thinking is that Haaland will get even better because he's an insane athlete (he's fecking huge), and has room to develop technically.