Man City - the new bitters?

[DalyanPete]

1 minute ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

 

Yeah, but we don't that. Could be a Liverpool fan.

[TheHowieLama]

7 hours ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

I called us stupid for not getting Haaland before he moved to Dortmund. 

When he was at Molde?

[Numero Veinticinco]

6 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

When he was at Molde?

Think he was at Salzburg at the time. 

 

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[TheHowieLama]

3 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Think he was at Salzburg at the time. 

Ship had sailed by then is my guess, he was there for only a few months - no way we would have agreed to the terms they (Dad/Agent) demanded, and got, from Dortmund.

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

22 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Ship had sailed by then is my guess, he was there for only a few months - no way we would have agreed to the terms they (Dad/Agent) demanded, and got, from Dortmund.

 

Fucking should have. 

[JohnnyH]

I’m intrigued by this signing. He feels to me like a post-guardiola signing. He’s just not a Pep player, like Grealish isn’t either. Guardiola wants to control the game completely. He does this by not playing an actual striker.  So to play a striker like Haaland he has to give up something in his midfield, which he just doesn’t want to do.  He hates uncertainty, which is why his teams collapse when things go wrong like happens in the CL but doesn’t in a league. Haaland is a brilliant player, but probably more so for the next guy.

[TheHowieLama]

14 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Fucking should have. 

If we did he would be leaving in a month, probably still to City.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Maybe he signed to break their European cup hoodoo. Week to week they don't really need him they batter everyone anyway but in Europe they may switch up.

[Aventus]

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

Ship had sailed by then is my guess, he was there for only a few months - no way we would have agreed to the terms they (Dad/Agent) demanded, and got, from Dortmund.

 

I get the impression his entire career path has already been planned for about 10 years. 

[J-V]

Already score tonnes of goals, current highest scorers and batter most teams in the League. Meh.

[3 Stacks]

9 hours ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

I called us stupid for not getting Haaland before he moved to Dortmund. I think it’s even crazier now that I’m seeing him earning the GDP of a small country for Sportswash CIty. Bit gutted really. Hopefully he does the ‘joins another team and goes shit’ thing. 

He's always had a career plan. Even as he's signing for City, there are City journalists saying this is a stop before he goes to Real Madrid.

 

It's a clear plan; Molde, Salzburg, Dortmund, City, Real Madrid. Crescendo. When you're a top player in the making and you put release clauses at a club like Salzburg, then you agree to go to Dortmund because you can put a clause there too, it eliminates clubs. We would have never signed him from Salzburg because we're not a stepping stone club, which he was clearly looking for. Also, we had no relationship with Raoila. Haaland to us was always and is a complete non-starter. Mbappe was always likelier, but also very unlikely, obviously.

[ZonkoVille77]

Timo Werner MK II

[Bobby Hundreds]

Just throw a baby Ruth on the pitch that's him done.

[Numero Veinticinco]

58 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

If we did he would be leaving in a month, probably still to City.

Nobody knows. All conjecture really. 

[Baltar]

We really needed to win the league this season, next season these cheating cunts are going to piss the league with this bastard in their team.

[Bobby Hundreds]

4 minutes ago, Baltar said:

We really needed to win the league this season, next season these cheating cunts are going to piss the league with this bastard in their team.

I think it may just be a little late for that. 

[Vincent Vega]

I guess this has gone out the window then?

[Mudface]

Just now, Vincent Vega said:

I guess this has gone out the window then?

Melted away like every hair on his head and every ethic or moral he possessed.

[Code]

6 hours ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Think he was at Salzburg at the time. 

 

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[Megadrive Man]

6 hours ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Nobody knows. All conjecture really. 

His agent insisted on a release clause in his contract, so there's no chance we would have agreed to that.

 

It was clear that they were looking for a stepping stone move to a big club.

[Clem H Fandango]

Not arsed. Pep will ruin him with his cocktail of special vitamins.

[Numero Veinticinco]

5 hours ago, MegadriveMan said:

His agent insisted on a release clause in his contract, so there's no chance we would have agreed to that.

 

As I said, conjecture. 

[Aventus]

7 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

I guess this has gone out the window then?

In Peps world, buying a 21 year old counts as developing youth.

[TheBitch]

[TheDrowningMan]

47 minutes ago, Aventus said:

In Peps world, buying a 21 year old counts as developing youth.

Was just about to say; I guarantee he’d give a passive-aggressive answer along those lines if pressed on it.