Erling is the player I wanted Lukaku to become. A country producing young players like Haaland, Ödegaard and Berge with a population of ~5 million is impressive. I guess it helps when all of the Norwegian citizens are technically millionaires. Two of those three are physical freaks, not even sovereign wealth fund money can buy that.
I thought only angry video gamers that have just given a bullshit goal away were capable of doing this type of thing.
I am half Norwegian so I am ashamed. It’s muscle memory to use an umlaut when discussing soccer players.
That second Haaland goal was a thing of beauty. Right after Neymar scores too; eat shit you little prick.
Futile exercise: If Dortmund were to try to sell Haaland RIGHT NOW a couple weeks after they signed him for 22 million euros, what would he go for? 100 million? 150?
He's got England or Bayern written all over him being a Diehard villain lookalike. could see Chelsea or United dropping a solid 125+ mil on him
Haaland will be sold to United, Barca, or Madrid for 150 million euros this summer or next. I hedge by saying next because if you are Dortmund, don’t you have to try and win at least one trophy with this monster? This kid could score 50 goals in bundesliga and fire them to a title by himself. ETA I guess there is a release clause. Ignore the hyperbole above he will be in a United shirt in August.
When a release clause being triggered, how does it work when a player doesn’t agree to terms? or is it an inevitable agreement due to the amount of money given to the player?
You including this year in that(outside of the 50 goals part) because Sancho is most likely gone? jk that isn't happening
Word. I ask because Haaland outright chose to be at Dortmund over United. Curious if this happens if MU triggers the release clause.
I assume he'll take the ridiculously inflated wages United would pay him over Dortmund even if he has to go back to playing on Thursday nights.
I thought United was offered him first but turned down the opportunity to sign him because of 3rd party ownership or not having to deal with Raiola?
That was reported by some of the Manchester rags. Raiola denies a lot of those reports. Haaland also wanted to go to a club where he was going to be first choice up top every week. Rashford was scoring a goal a game around that time and likely had an impact on the decision. Wouldn't surprise me if Raiola pushed him towards another club because of the current Pogba situation as well.
Guys, Raiola sent him to Dortmund so he could collect 25 million dollars in fees twice in two years. That’s it. with all respect to Marcus Rashford, Haaland would have had his ass on the bench by March.
I know where both are in their respective tables, but I was surprised to see Leipzig as a strong favorite to advance over Tottenham. Would seem closer to a toss up, imo.
I know very little of Atalanta so I was just looking at their roster on their wiki to see what names I recognized and I noticed they have 65 players currently out on loan. how in the fuck is that possible?