would either answer make you feel any better? There was no way he was coming to this absolute shit show of a club. Would have been the worlds stupidest decision to join us right now.
Nordic Ghost Yeti | Haaland at City
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Oh no please don't bring that up again I might actually be physically sickCan't wait to see all the stories about missing the phonecall to sign him as a youth player again.
Really rub it in.
City to win 5 out of the next 7 titles at the minimum now.
Exactly. We are 3-4 years of perfect management away from being remotely close to them and given how much better they are run, their resources and growth rate over the last decade it’s not unthinkable that they will surpass our trophy haul at some point as well. They will win their 8th title this year and will almost certainly get to 10 if not 15 by the time we even manage to challenge them slightly.
I think they will win their 20th title before we get to 21 too, similar how we got to 19 before Liverpool.
Sounds like you are after a ban as well which I'm sure we can arrange
All the money and trophies you win yet you still can’t sell out your stadium
Embarrassing. You may be better then us at the moment but you’ll never ever be bigger then us.Definitely most gutted I have felt since the Aguero/Silva/Toure days
Not sure why everyone is doing the "Where were we?" discussion and using this news as some kind of stick to beat our club with.
From all the rumours in last 1 year or more, wasn't it clear he wanted to go to City and not to us? Haaland is/was in a position to choose whatever club he wanted and the only one that he wanted was City. It has been obvious for quite some time.
From all the rumours in last 1 year or more, wasn't it clear he wanted to go to City and not to us? Haaland is/was in a position to choose whatever club he wanted and the only one that he wanted was City. It has been obvious for quite some time.
I think a lot of posters here are very dramatic, of a young age or just utterly depressive. Whichever it is it’s a strange concoction and makes the Caf become a bit of a negative cesspit.
I genuinely don’t know how some of them function with normal day to day challenges and set backs.
Just stay away from the thread son. What were you expecting ? Congratulations & flowers ?
Yeah good advice, your gloating in our faces isn't welcome whatsoever
I've created a billion threads on him
Weirdly enough I'm not particularly arsed by this move. I was depressed when we didn't pick him up for peanuts from Molde, and then it ruined my Christmas when we somehow didn't manage to secure him from Salzburg. This time we were never really in the race.
City is a colossal 'meh' from my point of view. They've been winning for a decade but their success is completely irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. All this hopefully does is make it harder for Liverpool to win anything for the next couple of years. Hopefully by then we've managed to get our shit together.
I didn't mean that in a negative context. More like that they're both big names.
But yeah, we need to have a younger goalscorer than Ronaldo for the long term and someone like Kane could fit that.
Maybe he feels he has to move at some point because so far, he has no trophies to show for his career.
Not that winning anything here would be easy, far from it, but we'd probably offer him a better chance than spurs at this moment.
Good for City, good for Haaland. It's a great fit, he should do great there. It's also going to cost a fortune - it's somewhat comical how differently the fees will be reported if it was a United signing but so be it.
We should have signed him before he signed for Dortmund. That was our opportunity, but we missed it and it was never going to emerge again.
I would be more thrilled if this meant we wouldn't have to deal with Raoila, but I guess that's not a major concern now.
What will be fascinating is that everything about him screams 'move again in 3/4 seasons' but City don't typically have players doing that.
We should have signed him before he signed for Dortmund. That was our opportunity, but we missed it and it was never going to emerge again.
I would be more thrilled if this meant we wouldn't have to deal with Raoila, but I guess that's not a major concern now.
What will be fascinating is that everything about him screams 'move again in 3/4 seasons' but City don't typically have players doing that.
Well this is less than ideal...
Eh? The transfer fee is only a fraction of the deal. The agent fees alone are reported to be around £50-60m. Hardly what you'd describe as 'dead cheap'.
We where dumb to not give him the release clause when we could have bought him.
Either he would have helped us succeed and maybe have stayed or we would have helped us and moved on for a tidy profit.
Either he would have helped us succeed and maybe have stayed or we would have helped us and moved on for a tidy profit.
I've considerably cooled on the Haaland hype after this last season. I thought he was going to dominate the next decade with brutal goalscoring but now I realize he'll spend at least half of it injured while acting like a, butt-ugly, diva.
Why cry about some scumbag who wants to play for Manchester City. His arrogance and attitude suits a club like that I think. I bet he'll spend half his time there with various injuries.
What do you define as success? Because only a title or UCL would have been worth the risk of City (or any club) doing what they're doing to Dortmund to us
Real Madrid was good for one facking thing. Get this guy and keep him out of the Prem. Why couldn't those slimeballs take care of this....pisses me off.
Another nail in the coffin for football, will be totally ignored as usual and be glamorised as a fantastic purchase for city. When in reality it just brings football (premier league in particular) to a constant one horse race that no one can compete with.
Liverpool are doing incredible considering the finances at their disposal and considering this is the best 11 they might have for the next 10 or so years they are still not good enough.
It's dull and boring and slowly killing the sport i loved.
The wage figure is irrelevant there's solid proof they have paid 2 wages to individuals multiple times so the real figure will never be revealed and the media will run with whatever city want you to hear.
Liverpool are doing incredible considering the finances at their disposal and considering this is the best 11 they might have for the next 10 or so years they are still not good enough.
It's dull and boring and slowly killing the sport i loved.
The wage figure is irrelevant there's solid proof they have paid 2 wages to individuals multiple times so the real figure will never be revealed and the media will run with whatever city want you to hear.
Hang on, what happened to transfer windows?
Imagine if we’d had him for the last 2 years, won nothing and imploded as we have done, and now we had to watch him go to City as we’re powerless to stop him due to a release clause. I think we made the right call.
The bigger question is why didn’t Ole get him straight from Molde if he’d managed him there. He went to Salzburg whilst he was United boss.
Maybe he just didn't rate him that much.
Can't spend our whole time being fearful of what ifs.
I'm sure he would have agreed to a buyout clause with an anti city clause and Liverpool clause.
Any trophies would have been a success considering the price he was going for.
We can't pretend we have leverage anymore.
Premier League becoming like La Liga where top 2 are so far ahead than the rest it's a struggle to keep up.
That being said all this nonsense in your post above, would not have been said if he were to sign for us or Madrid. It's because it's a direct rival you've had this reaction.
No it's not its because he's going to a club that are blatantly cheating and have been for years and its never mentioned or even questioned its swept under the carpet.
If you can't see the obvious fact football as a competitive element is dying right infront of your eyes that's not my issue.
This is before even mentioning the Newcastle problem which in 5-10 years time will make the whole thing even more laughable.
No. A Europa League or two wouldn't of been worth losing him for a pittance this summer
Good question
wtfFor me David Silva and de Bruyne stung so much more. With Haaland at least his injury problems make coping easier.
What's nice is that they don't really have much room for improvement results-wise.
Haaland is bloody brilliant when fit and he might just be what they need to go to an imaginary next level where,
it seems from this thread, that they'll win every match 15-0 and bathe in the sun with unicorns around them...
But they're not going to suddenly get 105, 110 points just because they'll field an exceptional striker instead of one of their technical midgets up front.
They'll win the games they usually win most likely, they'll drop points when the pressure is on, and well, they'll probably win another league or finish second and nobody will give a toss about them.
I take great pleasure in the fact that fans of all other clubs seem to have some feelings towards pep (mostly hatred or mockery),
But City as a club doesn't seem to elicit anything from fans, other than the older local United fans who hated them years before they won the lottery.
quite strange how from a historical perspective in years to come they might just be regarded as the best ever English team- especially if they keep winning and have, say, 6 league wins in seven years- and yet they can't fill their stadium more often than not...
Never seen anything like it.
I've some sort of sympathy for old City fans who have to do some heavy mental gymnastics in order to be able to justify and support what they become- a much more evil, curropt and soulless version of what they always claimed United had turned into because of success. Ain't karma grand...
Haaland is bloody brilliant when fit and he might just be what they need to go to an imaginary next level where,
it seems from this thread, that they'll win every match 15-0 and bathe in the sun with unicorns around them...
But they're not going to suddenly get 105, 110 points just because they'll field an exceptional striker instead of one of their technical midgets up front.
They'll win the games they usually win most likely, they'll drop points when the pressure is on, and well, they'll probably win another league or finish second and nobody will give a toss about them.
I take great pleasure in the fact that fans of all other clubs seem to have some feelings towards pep (mostly hatred or mockery),
But City as a club doesn't seem to elicit anything from fans, other than the older local United fans who hated them years before they won the lottery.
quite strange how from a historical perspective in years to come they might just be regarded as the best ever English team- especially if they keep winning and have, say, 6 league wins in seven years- and yet they can't fill their stadium more often than not...
Never seen anything like it.
I've some sort of sympathy for old City fans who have to do some heavy mental gymnastics in order to be able to justify and support what they become- a much more evil, curropt and soulless version of what they always claimed United had turned into because of success. Ain't karma grand...
This pisses me off.
Madness.Good question
predicting he’ll start ridiculously strong and probably have the best strike rate we’ve ever seen for the first third of the season then one of the lower prem midfielders or CB is gonna clatter him to see what he’s made of and he’ll be out for the next third of the season then become just an average striker in the premier league from then out.
Why outrage? ManCity are already a very good attacking side and buying Haaland makes them slightly better. Relax. It is not like they suddenly became title favorites from nothing.
Yeah this past decade bar a couple of domestic cups and Europa has been hell, this utter mismanagement combined with City signing Haaland is gut wrenching.
Still pray that one day we can find someone willing to pay the 4bn to save this club from those yankee leeches. Also why has it taken Arnold being appointed to finally see changes needed since Fergie left.
Who cares ? He's not what we need anyways. Better them than the dippers.
Ugh why didn't we see how great he was going to be when at Salzburg, christ Utd you have monumentally fecked up not having that foresight. Every goal leaves me thinking should have been us instead of Dortmund.
Pep and PEDs will get him firing on all, all the time in no time.