Erling Haaland

Compare him to someone like Kane.
Kane doesn’t score as many goals as him but he would score more than enough for City to win the league and at the same time, (as Kane has shown with Tottenham) he can make the team play well regardless of the shitters around him or shitty managerial decisions.

I don’t expect Haaland to come deep but he should find a way to influence the game when his teammates are not able to find him.

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It’s not really an argument, Kane is a superior all round player

However, even he would struggle in this City team.

Regarding Haaland Pep needs to ask more from him because Haaland should be capable of offering more. He demanded more of Aguero and Lewandowski and both were better players for it

Seems reluctant to do the same with Haaland for some reason

The guys got 194 goals in his last 210 games and 38 in 39 for Norway how much more of an influence does he need to have on games lol

Criticising strikers who score a ridiculous number of goals for not being as well rounded as players who don’t score as many goals is pretty ridiculous in my eyes.

He’s an absolute goal scoring machine the job of the manager and the creative talent is to feed him the ball not for him to find ways to make goals when nobody else can get it to him.

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I said what I said.
He is limited and you finding it ridiculous doesn’t make him less limited

I predicted that he would be incapable of doing anything when the team is not clicking and that’s exactly how it transpired.

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I don’t think he’s that limited really.

The whole City attack has been in poor form recently… You could talk about Foden, De Bruyne etc just the same. Are the limited system players too?

Their defence isn’t working, they are conceding and when they do the opponents focus on defence and it makes it much harder for them. Allround their whole balance is crushed on the pitch and it affects everyone.

Generally I don’t think he’s that limited at all. He’s no R9, Henry, Suarez, but he can beat his man when running at him, very dangerous on open space. Far from just a box merchant. He would do brilliant in a counter attacking team too. Let’s just go back to the time he just got to City. Many doubted whether he’ll be able to adapt to a possession team and he did a brilliant job. He would actually show even more ability in a team that allows him more space.

He’s good on the ball, very high general understanding od the game, he knows how to work with rest of the team and get assists too.

When things don’t works he’s just not a guy to drop deep, take the ball and make something happen. But just because City are going through a really really bad period (they could even get relegated withouth the PL point deduction at this point :tomi: ) doesn’t make Haaland a mediocre player all of a sudden.

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they got found out just like we got found out.

Yes but they’ve been found out in the court room :smile:

they got found out twice then

Haaland is a brilliant striker. It’s not even a debate.

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Petition to rename this to Erling Humble.

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Norwegian “Lenny” is one of the most unlikable so called stars in the game with a face only a mother could love.

Showed highlights from the game and the first Oliver game–how did he escape anything throwing the ball at Gaberial’s head???

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Henry being a bit critical of him, and fairly enough.

Can always bring it back to the goal count and justify anything of course.

I think he can be a lot more than what he’s being utilised as

Pep is not asking more of him which is odd because he did for Aguero and Lewandowski

Haaland is perfectly capable of being more involved in buildup , dropping deep etc. He has an exceptional football IQ and is very good technically

Debatable

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Hes gonna fucking kill it in the Championship

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Nah, microprocessor chips malfunctioning. Need to get some new ones from the Humbled Corps Organisation.

:fishing_pole_and_fish: .

https://x.com/alfiehaaland/status/1886120078288048638?s=46&t=eJpgg6uHWRsStnASv-OePg

lol, bitter dad.

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