Whose creating the chances for him? Going to rely on Amad who hasn't even kicked a ball for the first team yet? Greenwood who although showing improvement, certainly isn't at his best out wide?
Your crazy!!
. As a fellow striker the words R9 and Haaland in the same sentence should be blasphemy. You know your football though. But you're wrong and strong with this one mate. You can't hide behind the goalscorer tag either.. In the 90's era being a goalscorer didn't make you special.. you should know that.. he's a good goalscorer like Lukaku was and he's had an impressive start. He's nowhere near the level of strikers you think though. Whether he's here now or gets their later. Sometimes the stars just fall in line nicely for people.. Rashford being a good example of that. His career start was a fairytale. I bet you rate Haaland better than him though.Disgustingly boring to support though
Good points. I think City is our biggest rival to get him, and they hate Raiola even more than us and don’t have a history of paying record fees.
Not if you are a Bayern fan, let's be honest we are all just jealous because we cannot sign a player without a media circus surrounding it, actually we can barely sign a player these days
Also, Guardiola doesn’t really like out and out number 9s, especially big ones. Let’s see.
He isn't based on what Levy will want for him. Haaland will be value based on his contract.
I'm sorry to say this, but every club in the world would choose Haaland over Rashford.
I guess time will tell. No shame in disagreeing.Your crazy!!
), where he beats himself up for not scoring a fourth of fifth when he’s scored a hattrick.Being honest I think that doesnt hold enough weight, when he was in Leipzig Ole personally went and spoke to him and wasnt even able to convince him to join us before Dortmund. Now after he's done great in Dortmund he can get into pretty much any team in the world. If knowing Ole didnt weight enough then it surely wont right now.
That would make sense if he was a fan of ManUtd or something, the reality is a "rebuild" project is not as attractive as a full flowing team. First because the "rebuild" can take several seasons and after all that theres no warranty that it will work. See Pogba's case, he spent has spent several of his prime years here without glory. He could had easily stay in Juventus collecting Serie A titles or gone to another team.
Honestly just throw them the cheque book. If we want to win titles we need the best of the best and he certainly is the best young striker if not the best striker in world football and will be for the next 10 years.
Why I ask is I think United need Sancho this summer, Sancho and Haaland would be big but would it happen?
Your point about him choosing Dortmund over United I think is false. It was mentioned a lot at the time that Haaland had strong offers from Dortmund, Leipzig, Juve and United and that he chose Dortmund because he felt it was a necessary step in his development. I actually think that it was an extremely astute move from Haaland because he moved to a team that perfectly fit his profile in that moment. Dortmund at that time were creating heaps of chances but had nobody apart from and injury prone Paco Alcacer to put them away. They also provided an environment in which he would be guaranteed first choice CF playing in a team where there isnt the same scrutiny on winning every week as there is at United/Bayern/Juve. Haaland seems to have a good group of people around him who I think persuaded him to stick it out at Dortmund for a few years to bolster his already impressive reputation in an environment that would certainly work for him. You can see that they saw this as a stepping stone before moving to a huge club by the contract length he took there and the buy out clause they forced into his contract.
I think he would, it depends what he wants from his career. We shall see.
Recent comments on not choosing a club just because the manager likes you rather than the whole club were a reference to us i think. Ole wanted him before he went to dortmund but the club werent willing to meet the fee for a relatively unproven player. The problem nowadays as well of course, is that theres too few top centre forwards being produced so competition is fierce.
Our owners are the Glazers
It's also a premier league problem, not a United problem. The worse the team is, the more they play like that on Sunday. You end up with stacks of world class players needing something quite fortunate to happen in the 6 yard box. It saps the quality out of the football. It happened to City, Liverpool, us. I don't understand why it doesn't happen more across the European leagues to be honest.
This. Not enough creativity in the side for a quality striker to make a difference.
Yet Canavi missed a clear sitter in the box with an air kick... ok. We need more creativity but Haaland scores that
I see where your coming from however we've scored more goals than any other team in the league, therefore creating chances is clearly not a major issue for us. Finishing has been a major issue, somebody should make a compilation of our missed chances, it would be an hour long.
In fairness City and Liverpool have regressed in terms of goalscoring (though annoyingly City just decided to be amazing in defence). At this rate (~2 goals per game) we'd have 79 goals by the end of the season, which is pretty good considering how shite Martial has been and that we have nothing on the right. It's still a bit away from the 90+ that City and Liverpool were scoring but a top RW would put us up there I reckon.
He is such a completely different player to Lewandowski that it is hard to imagine Haaland functioning in a Bayern side.
Pretty much. To add to that, world class strikers aren't reliant on others spoon-feeding them service, they create chances for themselves through movement, anticipation, making runs etc.
Yes but we've conceded two more than we did at the same stage last season. While our offense has improved, our defense is no better. Most of the goals we've conceded this season have come down to 3 positions. DDG, and the two CBs. We improve on that triangle defensively and we're very much title contenders. As much as we need a clinical #9, we need at least two defenders even more.
Yeah couldn’t agree more.
Great post, this.
I think everyone expects at least another 2-3 years at the top level from Lewandowski. He is a physical freak like CR or Ibrahimovic, takes care of his body, is extremely professionel, never injured and also doesn't rely on pace for his game.
Time will tell if he can be as good as R9 but fair to say that he is a higher calibre to Lukaku even at this early stage of his career.Your crazy!!
Rather have faith in Mason him naturally seems like a better footballer than Haaland.
