United have outspent City, both in gross and in net spend. Money wasn't the determining factor. United could've easily matched any offer by City. It was the choice between winning the PL + possibly CL and playing Sherif Tiraspol while fighting for 4th place that made the difference.
Nordic Ghost Yeti (Scandi Carroll) | Haaland at City
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United have outspent City, both in gross and in net spend. Money wasn't the determining factor. United could've easily matched any offer by City. It was the choice between winning the PL + possibly CL and playing Sherif Tiraspol while fighting for 4th place that made the difference.
I think he might be. Having said that, Van Nistrelrooy scored 44 goals in all competitions during a time when football wasn't as expansive and top strikers didnt get as many chances as they do today. But Haaland is well on pace to break Ruud's mark which.
City should start with an automatic one goal deficit with him in the team. Give the other side at least some fighting chance.
Must be a little bit boring to be attacker on City too. They seldom counter attack and mostly play safe passes. Don’t understand why they don’t playy more behind “enemies lines” when they have a player like Haaland.
City are winning, but their play isn’t very convincing. I thing Pep has taken their possession play to far.
City are winning, but their play isn’t very convincing. I thing Pep has taken their possession play to far.
Money isn't the reason he's playing for them over us. It's mainly been bad decision making from Woodward and co.
Ignoring that we could have signed him years ago, once we signed Ronaldo last summer it was easily predictable that we'd regret being stuck with a past it 37 year old while City had a perfect spot for Haaland.
Shame Madrid don’t buy City players.
You serious? If that challenge was in the street jail time would have been served. You don’t think the father of Drago hasn’t brought this up over dinner? Alf never played the same if I recall, missed most of the season after the assault, and really don’t know if he ever played a full 90 minutes after that all for saying get up. Money doesn’t cover up what happens to family and Haaland at City has to be making the father satisfied.
We’ve spent or shall we say wasted buttloads of money, difference is they’ve had a plan whilst we made it up as we went.
Good decision making vs poor decision making is all the difference.
We’re not very good at this buying trophies thing.
City don't work to play him in often, interestingly. Outside of De Bruyne and Cancelo, he's not getting premium service. Foden seems to be at odds with deferring to him and others are playing secondary passes amongst themselves rather than spotting very good runs and trying to hit the balls through to him.
Clear this City side have a lot of work to do and are going to get better as a collective. They're strolling through rather than working on patterns and movement like they should be doing. I bet Pep isn't happy about that.
Clear this City side have a lot of work to do and are going to get better as a collective. They're strolling through rather than working on patterns and movement like they should be doing. I bet Pep isn't happy about that.
We almost had him, we wanted him before anyone else because Ole brought him through at molde. It is surprising though that city seemingly had a free run at him
Yeah, they're really struggling at the moment.
Ha only 1 goal against 10 men. Overrated
You learn and hone when battering fodder. They switched off once the second goal went in and stopped working on their game. It's when the serious games come that what you've been working on needs to be on point. City need to win the CL and should be working towards that with every game they play.
Really hope people aint thinking that if he signed for us, he would look the same or produce the same as in City.
How many goals in the league for this kid now?
Can we please stop perpetuating this myth. Alf literally played the rest of the match and his surgery was for a recurring problem with the OTHER knee. Also, according to the Manchester Evening News, he had nothing but good things to say last year about the prospect of his son joining United.
edit: a few words
11 Goals in 7 apps.
11 in 7 in the league
They can definitely match the weekly wages. What they can’t match is the under-the-table backhanders that don’t show up in the books paid to Haaland, his dog, his mum, his mailman; and his dad’s medical fees for round the clock care after Keane ended his career.
There’s a reason why Real didn’t go near Aguero, Toure, Kompany and David Silva when they were tearing the league apart.
I just don't think there's any evidence to support this
No we can’t. Facile minds are fertile ground for this bullshit. It’s intellectual whack a mole, and you can’t win.
So 22 more in 31 matches by my math and he will set a new record. I'm sure he will hit a rough patch but it's entirely doable. Kid is unreal.
Only guy on his team who respects the kit man too.
He would not. It was City, Madrid or Bayern.
There’s a decent documentary actually on the process Haaland and his team went through. They portray it as quite a holistic evaluation with
- Which team has the best chance at success
- Which team needs a number 9
Being two central parameters, among others. Each parameter is scored out of 10 and the decision was made based on which club has the highest total score. They say that 5-6 clubs were included in the evaluation, but there were only 3 real contenders. Haaland senior talks about different clubs, but City, Real and Bayern are the ones that get the most attention (Bayern seemingly missing out because they still had Lewa - they also make it seem like Bayerns pursuit of Haaland is the main reason Lewa left).
Sadly, no objective observer can argue City is a bad choice for any player (if they can get game time..), but I guess it also depends on how heavily a player weights things like history, culture, ethics etc.
Does he have a release clause in his contract right now? If yes, how much is it?
The rumour is second year of his contract it kicks in for 200m, and the third year it's 150m.
None of this was confirmed though.
Comparing with how many chances Ronaldo is wasting per game, I'd say he would be in the same ballpark.
It’s a good meme though. Keane went full WWE on Haaland’s father. Heard he has PTSD around Irish people.
I remember that day, Jaap Stam and Dennis Irwin made a young Erling watch as Keane tortured his father and just laughed
I’d prefer Martial anyway
The tackle was made in early 2001 when Alfie was 29 years old. After that his career seemed to have ended. I wonder how this impacted the Haaland household finances when he was growing up … did he suffer some level of poverty? Does his son blame United?
No chance but thats just me.
Couldnt even do that in football manager. feck me.
his dad got £35 million in ‘agent’ fees On top of what they already had paid for his release clause. I’ve absolutely no doubts that there’s all sorts of dodgy money around Haaland.
I have no doubts that he is „unofficially“ on Mbappe level money
Was always going to bang in a tonne of goals. City are champions, have been a well oiled machine for years and added the biggest young talent around. Doing exactly what he was expected to. He would probably struggle a bit more for us, but then so would anybody. Our team isn’t quite there yet, but hopefully will start to take shape soon.