His dad is a City nobody. He played 47 games for them.
Erling Haaland
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Former City player then. Him and Haaland Jr have gone to watch tonnes of City games together too when he was younger you're being intentionally ignorant to think their isn't a City link in the Haaland family
Look I get what you mean, its not a perfect scenario for us, but then we are no longer not at perfect situation. You don't have to go back all early 2010s to make a point. We haven't won a single trophy in past 5 years, this is the reality. The smarter we do our business, the less money it would cost us, and the better we could invest for future. We've already spent a billion over the past few years, and our most expensive signings are either flops or going to leave on free after their contract ends. We should work smarter
And I don't disagree that we have to make smarter signings to get us back to the top. It doesn't justify the need to act like sluts for every player/agent only using us as a stepping stone and big pay day otherwise Dortmund and Ajax would be much stronger than they are.
With our new football setup and soon recruitment/scouting department it's now their job to find the next best things who would actually be hungry to come here. It's worked well for our two biggest rivals
Agreed ... With Mino out of the way (RiP), I wonder if he will be more open to moving to a fallen/sleeping giant like United. United can clearly pay and he would have a higher chance of getting Balon d'Or ... I mean for all his brilliance why has De Bruyne never been in the top-5 of Balon d'Or? Pep's teams rely so much on teamwork that even the standout players don't stand heads and shoulders above their teammates. For example Salah/Mane clearly look superior to every other Liverpool player and are required to display more individualism, so they get noticed by everyone when Liverpool does well.
In all depends on what kinds of assists, right. I'm not talking about rebounds. In Haalands case he's surprisingly unselfish around the box and times passes well. Look up brace + 2 assists vs Frankfurt, and you see what I mean.
Pretty sure no one would be scoring for fun in this current side.
Rangnick has mentioned his name. Small possibility but still.
so you wouldn't have wanted him for the past three years? I'd have loved to have him in the side - I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have been in danger of a place in the Europa Conference at any stage
Well, at that time, he was 18 or 19 & still trying to make it whilst at UTD, Rashy & Martial were doing a lot better than they have done for the past year or so, so, he wanted to go to Dortmund to play football & not sit on the UTD bench, plus, that release clause thing was an issue for UTD, but this summer Haaland would know for a fact he would've been a regular starter (even with Ronaldo still here)
I think, based on his camp's briefing to the Norwegian media at the time, that it was Ole's very insecure position as a manager (strong reports of him getting sacked at the time) that made Team Haaland opt against moving to United. They felt that only Ole wanted him, not the club.
I'm going out on a limb here and have a feeling we are going to sign Haaland this summer.
Rangnick keeps mentioning him almost like he is trying to convince the board.
Rangnick keeps mentioning him almost like he is trying to convince the board.
Keep up the optimism!
shame the rumours weren't true!
Erling is a Leeds fan
He's a member of a Manchester City Facebook Fan Page since like 5/7 years ago.
It was unearthed beneath the archives some months back
I wonder how raiola's passing (rip) is going to affect his transfer , I'm assuming there won't as bug of a commission for riola like it would have been but maybe his father is going to that instead?
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Sums up how circumstances have transpired against us that City get Haaland when Riola's no longer around to cause trouble
It's been all over the news for days that the man has passed yet you gnomes still can't spell his name. It's Raiola, not Riola.
Not point in daydreaming about Haaland. He's City bound, its done and dusted imo
Neither are true.
The only reason Haaland didn’t end up at Utd was because we refused to have the release clause in the deal. No other reason.
Dortmund CEO even confirmed it this week that Haaland would be at Utd if it wasn’t for the clause.
Someone compared him to Lukaku and the frightening thing is, that I cannot get that out of my head totally. It is not THAT wrong… Explosive speed, strong, okayish technique, strangely not great with the back to the goal, lacking a good first touch… Haaland‘s vision is better and he has age on his side but the comparison got me thinking.
I think he is much better than Lukaku.
I hope (and think) you are right, i just stumble upon the comparison and it kinda stuck.
I presume they won't push ahead for Kane now and that he wouldn't go there to possibly play second fiddle. Not that he's be stupid enough to come to us...
City will be going all out to get him now.
Outcome of today's game has no bearing on that.
Let's face it, City desperately need him more than we do tonight 
You bet they are cooking up a sponsorship deal with the Emirati Heavy Goods Transport Authority for 200 million as we speak.
I think Lukaku comparisons are not totally wrong. I’d even say Vardy is a player who Haaland is similar too.
Playing for City will be an easier task than playing for Chelsea or United but I’m really interested to see how he gets on in the English league.
Playing for City will be an easier task than playing for Chelsea or United but I’m really interested to see how he gets on in the English league.
I can see a clash of styles with haaland and pep, haaland doesn't strike me as the type of striker you have for a tika taka style of play and the best pep sides have centred around small agile attacking players that can be flexible in their positioning and play in tight spaces.
Could it be another Ibrahimovic/Barca scenario for pep?
Could it be another Ibrahimovic/Barca scenario for pep?
It is. Totally wrong.
Dortmund CEO confirmed that THEY wouldn't have gotten him if they didn't agree to the buyout clause. Meaning he was leaning towards United until they agreed to the clause.
That doesn't mean we would have gotten him if we agreed to it as well.
It's never just one reason for choosing a club, there was many factors for the decision, ultimately he got a great stepping stone club with guaranteed starts and guaranteed Champions League, with a big upcoming payday for sign-on fee with the clause as long as he stayed on his upwards trajectory.
Why? Both are tall, physical strikers with explosive acceleration and great movement who's aim is getting in behind defences.
Both are potent finishers but lack the all-round technical game of other strikers. I don't see the comparison as being that far off at all.
Lukaku has explosive acceleration? Lukaku has agility and balance?
I have never seen Lukaku run this fast
This is peak Owen/Martins acceleration and top speed
I have never seen Lukaku run this fast
This is peak Owen/Martins acceleration and top speed
Both feast on their physical talents, aren’t good at heading the ball, have a suspect first touch and are surprisingly bad as hold-up players with their back to the goal.
When is / was this buyout clause supposed to be active then
Wasn't all the talk it had to be activated by the end of April?
Wasn't all the talk it had to be activated by the end of April?
Allegedly €75m until the end of May.
Anyone think we hijack this deal
No chance in hell.
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