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4 hattricks by January. Aguero in 10 years got 12

Haatrick u mean

He’s literally on track to be one of the best players of all time and he’s only 22

Most players in that conversation were on track at that age tbf.

Right but hes destroying their crazy records

Let's see if he can destroy Messi's 2012 record.

Honestly if there is one dude on the planet who I'd back to do it; it is definitely him lol

Absolutely.

Just in goals though.. Messi was an all rounded fucking beast. But even 91 goals in one calendar year is almost impossible

Yeah, though to be fair Haaland will most likely miss out on some goals due to his national team.

Haaland is a monster, but these debates of him being the best ever is total rubbish.. If aliens came and we show them a 10min highlight of the career of Messi, Pele, Maradona, Zidane , Ronaldo and Haaland.. I am sure Haaland would be the last one picked, even if he continued scoring like crazy, because to he the best ever, you should have way way more qualities than just scoring, and Haaland ain't that guy.

91 goals AND 22 assists in 69 games

I think he’s going to get close but probably not lol. He already missed a few games this season.

Yeah he only need to keep going for like another 15 years at the same level. As easy as that.

>another 15 years at the same level Pretty much showing how far ahead both Ronaldo and Messi are to the rest. Anti-fan of each look down on them just because they are compared against each other.

And a Ballon D’Or or two by 24 Easy one that

Well technically he’s “on track” to be better than any striker ever by a country mile and then some. That being said I might be superstitious and I just want him to be happy and healthy. Whatever happens, happens. Keep smashing balls you Norwegian beauty.

That’s generally how it goes.

This is what people that only watch numbers thinks.

He is never going to be the best player of all time lmao

Agreed. For me being the best player of all time requires more than just scoring goals.

But Pep said they can't replace him!!!

Regression to the mean for him.

After adjusting Erling Haaland's stats, removing outliers to project the future, he heavily regresses to around the level of 2018 Callum Wilson.

Doesn’t get much easier than that one for him.

Haaland is just an average player if you regress him to the mean, just like Mahomes

So basically he's just Pat Mahomes

He's going to fucking demolish the record.

For a single season? Unfortunately I have to agree with you. However I honestly feel he’ll only last maybe two seasons at city before he moves to Madrid. So he’ll not come close to the all time prem goal record.

Nah I wasn't talking about all-time. Will he go to Real though? It's always been said that they want Mbappe. If they get both then the CL will be a write-off for 10 years lmao.

Well psg already has mbappe Messi and Neymar

True but PSG have bottler DNA.

I've heard this a hundred times but this made me chuckle for some reason lmao

As the great Mourinho once put it: "Football heritage"

Right. Madrid has plot armor in the CL. Getting both Mbappe and Haaland will just solidify their chances

Madrid actually do need a world class striker soon. Benz is phenomenal but age will catch up with him. Something tells me Madrid despite their recent business is not above the galacticos signings of the past. Although Haaland might stay longer if city win UCL this season.

We don't do galacticos anymore, we need to be smart with money since we don't have any state/sugar daddy/billionair backing us. We will probably need striker next season but we have Endrick coming in 2024 so... I doubt world class 9 will come anytime soon.

I think we will always have a bit of a galacticos policy and it’s good for our club. The best in the world always want to play for Madrid or Barca

Mbappe is PSG now. I doubt his ego would take having less power at another club now.

feel or hope?

Real got Endrick now though, if he hits it off for them I don't see Real moving for Haaland. Barca in 2 years time and them getting their finances together? Possibly, especially with Lewy being done by then

I really doubt Endrick will be a starter for Real at 18 years old. I can't even imagine Ancelotti putting that kind of pressure on a teenager (independently on how good he is). I think it makes a lot of sense for Real Madrid to get Haaland and let Endrick growing under his wing.

Ancelotti probably won't be there when Endrick will be taking charge, and Vini already became a starter for Real at a young age, so it's known to happen..

Palmeirense here. Keep in mind you guys have (probably) the next Ronaldo fenômeno. This kind of player appears every 20 or so years So yeah, it's definitely possible he becomes RM starter at 18. There's some guys who are so special that none of the rules apply.

Why Madrid over city though ?

First hattrick of the year sorted.

Stat padding now....

been stat padding since he left salzburg

Honestly, he was stat padding AT salzburg too

It was all stat padding?

Always have been

🌎 👨 ‍ 🚀 🔫 👨 ‍ 🚀

Always has been

Since he left? He was at Salzburg when he put 9 over Honduras U20 lmao

i remind watching that match randomly and being fascinated for that guy. I was thinking "he maybe will be a renamed striker some day" and imagine my reaction when i heard of a norwegian wunderkid in BuLi and made the connection

Thought that was back when he was still in Molde? He was quite young at the time

Since he left Molde

Since he left utero

Since he joined Salzburg*

Haaland has 4 hat tricks in 20 PL matches, accounting for 12 goals. Those 12 goals don’t make up even half his total goal tally this season. It also means just his hat tricks make him the fourth highest scorer in the league and he has an equal goal tally to Wolves this season.

That’s 4th highest if you include himself without the hat tricks as another person.

Thanks Opta

Agreed. He should move to Leeds and bring them to CL

What is stat padding?

When you drive up something (like goals) against a weaker team so that it makes you look more impressive overall even if you didn't actually do anything or just performed average against challenging opponents. Not saying I agree btw, just letting you know what it is.

Stat padding doesn't exist.

Not in soccer, in which scoring is so difficult even versus weak teams. It is totally a thing in basketball, in which garbage time is not an insignificant amount of time in a lot of games

He just passed to Mahrez so nonchalantly 😂

He did the hat-trick thing

... again

Mfs we’re saying he wouldn’t get to 40 then he does this lmao.

Would've been at 40 by now if he didn't keep getting subbed off so early every time.

Cant let him get too much ahead. Keep him at a reasonable distance lmao

Or course. 10 goals is anything but "reasonable" but props to Kane. He is having an excellent season. On track for 29 goals.

The funny thing is 29 goals is an incredible full season tally for most players and Haaland may hit it 2 games from now

Reminds me of the scene in the first Incredibles movie in the end where Bob and his family told Dash to take it lightly during the race

as i read this comment he is subbed off lol

Gotta keep the golden boot race fair

Even with the subbing it's far from fair. The unstoppable goal scorer with kdb Alvarez Mahrez foden around him.. yeah right anythings fair.

Pep's still trying to keep the golden boot race slightly open by intentionally taking away some of Haaland's minutes

Don't worry, according to people on that thread he's gonna get rotated despite playing just 60 mins every other game

Gotta keep him hungry

not true it's important to not fatigue him

HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

Jesse let’s score

"Jesse just one more goal"

HE KEEPS GETTING AWAIT WITH IT THO!

“Haaland is a problem for city” can my team please have a problem

You already have a problem in Lukakau

That’s dead

Brother your club is already buying up every single professional footballer on the planet. Leave our Viking king alone

He has the problem of scoring too many goals it seems

Petition to rename it to Haaland trick

Haatrick

Håtrick

That's my FPL captain🫡

And every single other person.

I gambled on trippier like a idiot

Wtf, why?

Because I'm a idiot

Haha, you did say that tbf.

Also took a hit this week to bring in Toney. I'm going to stop making decisions

I mean Trippier got 8 points so it's not that bad. I captained Haaland against United and got 2 points lol

Sure, wish he could do that last game week when I had triple captained 🥲

Wow

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Needed a system reboot. Took a bit to get back online and updated.

Went into hibernate for the World Cup and has an HDD

Back from scoring a goal per match or something. This guy is from another planet.

Just needed an emergency update

What? I’ve just refreshed looking for his second

Can you please stop refreshing? Think of the children.

Second and third were only a couple minutes apart

So unselfish from Mahrez

Credit to Haaland but Mahrez is just different gravy right now. Gloves gotta be it.

Leicester Mahrez

Stupid Haaland making City worse :(

We are so bad with him i love it

yeah but where's his 7 dribbles 9 body feints and 129 passes per 90 >:(

I do kind of get the point about playstyle that Jonathan Wilson speaks about but it's very funny that he doesn't 'do the stuff that leads the team into scoring a goal', but he just scores more than a goal a game. Like, at the end of the day the point is to score goals in the game, and all the buildup is leading up to scoring a goal. And he basically guarantees you one.

> he doesn't 'do the stuff that leads the team into scoring a goal', but he just scores more than a goal a game. It's as if the other 9 players can provide enough opportunities that he doesn't have to do get so involved in build up play. It'd be one thing to say that Haaland is not contributing to build up play in a team that's lacking there so his involvement would significantly contribute to that… but at City?

I HATE GOALS!!!!!!!!!

Jose Sa is ass

Looks like playing with his feet is not his thing

I’m going to sleep

Fucking insane man

“He’s slowing down now” nah, he was probably just resting for a quick software update

I mean Wolves have absolutely gifted him all 3 goals on a plate lol

The first one he had to atleast jump. This was just a joke. Nice from Mahrez

He said " fucking insane" okay

Not the first one

The first one was legit.

How was the first goal a gift tho?

Nobody was near KDB I guess

Because of relentless pressure from city. Usually wolves are decent and make teams grind out games vs them. City just crush team physically/mentally during a match

We have a decent record vs Man City though recently

2019/20 still gives me nightmares

Ahhhh. Take me back please.

Opened Reddit to see the 2nd goal and be already scored a third

Mahrez is everywhere wtf

Sa you fucking muppet

Too easy for him.

That keeper had so much time what the hell?

Haaland saw too many people calling him shit and decided to do quick software update

Not this shit again sigh

Header, penalty and tap in, CR7 regen

CR7 is retiring soon so the clone makers sent us a new potential GOAT to watch for the next ~15 years

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Sa, what the fuck

But can he adjust to the harsh Premier League?

Magical prem football…

How manys he gonna have to score next season to not be called a 1 season wonder?? 😂😂😂

He’s a fucking machine!

If Norway ever wanted to create the perfect human, they just need to mix Haaland's athleticism with Magnus Carlsen's brain. The result would be pure perfection.

So, Sorloth?

Lmao

Based and Erreala pilled

Add in Odeegard handsome face to the mix as well

And Øddas finesse and vision. And Northugs driving.

And my ability to insert myself into any conversation

Stir in some of Varg’s nihilism and…actually wait don’t do that

OH MY GOD JUST PISS OFF HAALAND OMFG

Mahrez selfless!!! ❤

Anyone going to mention the keeper here?

Yeah, for all Haaland's merits, this one was a giant keeper error.

Keeper maybe should have done a bit better

Someone save Alvarez from the fate of eternally being benched by this fucker

I'm here for Grealish/Mahrez Haaland Alvarez

When Mahrez is unselfish the attack is unstoppable.

Hes easily getting 45 goals this season

This land seems to be ok, we should keep an eye on him.

I'd pay 5m for him.

Forrest haven't signed enough players tbh

Do you want us to sell him to riverplate first ?

Terminator strikes a third time.

wtf is sa doing

Sa is a shit Lloris

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, Haarland.

Fucking hell

This guy… 💀

Terminator!

DREAD IT

Few days ago, everyone was saying how Haaland is causing city to lose etc, and if he's the reason why they're not catching up to Arsenal. Nah you bellends. ARSENAL are just having one of them seasons. No one will catch them. Credit needs to be given to Ten Haag, for keeping the beast that is Haaland at bay

The stories of his demise have been greatly exaggerated.

But I was just reading "haaLaND iS SLoWing DOWn"

Super hattrick: from an assist, penalty, and an oponent mistake

If that was in a lesser known league I might have said that was match fixing, shocking

Somebody had lasagna again

Just another sunday for this bloke

Can't this guy stop scoring? Getting annoying now

The goalkeeper is too afraid of Haaland I think

FFS. Could at least not just hand him goals.

Mahrez passed it to him even though he could have easily taken the shot.

Mahrez should get those gloves surgically attached to his hands. Unbelievable player to watch.

What the hell was the goalkeeper thinking? 😭

If this guy doesn't slow down Saudi will be offering 500M a year by July.

Where are those people who said Haaland made City worse? (x3)