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Originally Posted by Mr_Ed
Can we buck the trend here and acknowledge that, in first impressions he’s going to be a goal scoring machine and will bag a hat full? He’s an excellent purchase for them.
It’s a shame he didn’t come to us but given our recent decline, City’s unlimited wealth and money splurging, manager pull, family ties and all that then we were probably never serious contenders.
Reckon he’ll be there 4-5 years then schlep off to Spain to rack up even higher numbers.
Let’s not sound too bitter eh?
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Nobody is denying the fact he's going to score a lot of goals. It's city ffs, they score a lot of goals regardless. They'd have probably scored 5 goals at least against Forest with Gabriel Jesus still up front. If City can create enough chances for Raheem Sterling to score 25 goals a season it should be no problem for someone like Haaland.
But i'll be £#%&!ed if i'm going to sit there crying and keep bttt the thread every time he scores because United didn't sign him. What's the point? We've missed out on the likes of Alan Shearer, Ronaldinho, Eden Hazard, Karim Benzema down the years to name a few and that was when we were good.
Oh and just an aside - we
were serious contenders but apparently refused to put the £130m release clause in his contract from 2024 that his dad and Raiola wanted. There's a reason teams like bayern, Madrid and Barcelona didn't go anywhere near him despite the fact they all wanted a CF .....and it wasn't for anything as sentimental as £#%&!ing "manager pull and family ties" it's because they didn't fancy the £40 million in agents fees on top of the 51 million transfer and then a relatively modest release clause in 2024.