Erling Haaland

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I remember reading loads of comments elsewhere about how he wouldn't be able to do it in England.

Anyone who's seen him play knows what he is. Sky's the limit for him, such a physical powerhouse, with speed and some skill. He knows he's good too, I quite enjoy how full of himself he is. Zlatan-esque.

Think he's had a couple of leg injuries though, not sure of specifics, dunno if they'll be a theme for him.
 
Hammi said:
I remember reading loads of comments elsewhere about how he wouldn't be able to do it in England.

Anyone who's seen him play knows what he is. Sky's the limit for him, such a physical powerhouse, with speed and some skill. He knows he's good too, I quite enjoy how full of himself he is. Zlatan-esque.

Think he's had a couple of leg injuries though, not sure of specifics, dunno if they'll be a theme for him.
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I agree with the Zlatan comparison now you mention it, aye looking forward to seeing what he can do in the next few years
 
Hammi said:
I remember reading loads of comments elsewhere about how he wouldn't be able to do it in England.

Anyone who's seen him play knows what he is. Sky's the limit for him, such a physical powerhouse, with speed and some skill. He knows he's good too, I quite enjoy how full of himself he is. Zlatan-esque.

Think he's had a couple of leg injuries though, not sure of specifics, dunno if they'll be a theme for him.
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To be fair, he could be injured 3/4 of the season and still finish top scorer at this rate!
 
How many English strikers do it abroad? Lineker… and I’ll give you Archibald… any others?
 
Hattie said:
How many English strikers do it abroad? Lineker… and I’ll give you Archibald… any others?
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None in the modern era really, Owen went to Madrid and wasn’t great. Tammy Abraham at Roma is the only one I can think of recently.
 
Remember he scored against us once upon a time. Really impressive rise to the top. Great football player.
 
Can remember heading over to Molde in 2018 quietly confident after a 0-0 first leg safe in the knowledge their star prospect Erling Haaland was completing a move to RB Salzburg (having sat out the first leg).

Unfortunately he would only join Salzburg later that season and re-appeared in the second leg against us scoring a brace in a 3-0 win! ☹️
 
Oddly enough one of my mates went out with a girl that looks exactly like haaland... she was a rugby player. Was his first ride right enough but he still gets stick for it to this day.... id like to say his standards improved over the years but nah
 
And yeah, forgot about av few of these.. any other Scottish strikers? Apart from Law and Baker.. although Baker was “technically english 🙈
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
Was just amazed at someone gettin stick for sayin someone was ugly when there are 2000 senseless slaggings off of any but hibbies and hibs players all day long here.

Not good for your auras, y'hear, all that spunked negativity 😇🤑
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Was only joking.

And I'm the first to jump in when the players are getting slagged all day long 😁
 
Hattie said:
And yeah, forgot about av few of these.. any DenisLaw andother Scottish strikers? Apart from Law and Baker.. although Baker was “technically english 🙈
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Alan McInally did not bad at Bayern Munich. Eric Black was pretty successful at Metz.

Denis Law and Joe Baker were fairly short-lived at Torino with 27 (10 goals) games and 19 (7 goals) games respectively. Against extremely defensive cattenaccio systems and normally double-marked that was a pretty decent scoring rate. Denis attributed his heavy scoring back in Manchester to the unnacustomed freedom he now had on the pitch. Joe scored prolifically at both Arsenal and Forest. Jimmy Greaves also played around 10 games for AC Milan, scoring almost a goal a game before promptly heading homewards.

Welshman, John Charles was probably the most successful and enduring of them all with 155 appearances and 108 goals over five seasons with Juventus.
 
Stu said:
Alan McInally did not bad at Bayern Munich. Eric Black was pretty successful at Metz.

Denis Law and Joe Baker were fairly short-lived at Torino with 27 (10 goals) games and 19 (7 goals) games respectively. Against extremely defensive cattenaccio systems and normally double-marked that was a pretty decent scoring rate. Denis attributed his heavy scoring back in Manchester to the unnacustomed freedom he now had on the pitch. Joe scored prolifically at both Arsenal and Forest. Jimmy Greaves also played around 10 games for AC Milan, scoring almost a goal a game before promptly heading homewards.

Welshman, John Charles was probably the most successful and enduring of them all with 155 appearances and 108 goals over five seasons with Juventus.
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On the Baker front, I’m sure he broke his leg while at torino then got a good name at Arsenal i believe 👀
 
Stu said:
Alan McInally did not bad at Bayern Munich. Eric Black was pretty successful at Metz.

Denis Law and Joe Baker were fairly short-lived at Torino with 27 (10 goals) games and 19 (7 goals) games respectively. Against extremely defensive cattenaccio systems and normally double-marked that was a pretty decent scoring rate. Denis attributed his heavy scoring back in Manchester to the unnacustomed freedom he now had on the pitch. Joe scored prolifically at both Arsenal and Forest. Jimmy Greaves also played around 10 games for AC Milan, scoring almost a goal a game before promptly heading homewards.

Welshman, John Charles was probably the most successful and enduring of them all with 155 appearances and 108 goals over five seasons with Juventus.
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John charles from Leeds? He was the first “british” player to go to Italy.. With Baker and Law not far behind him
 
Hattie said:
John charles from Leeds? He was the first “british” player to go to Italy.. With Baker and Law not far behind him
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Yes, Leeds were his first club. According to older relatives who saw him he was an immense player, could play centre back too.
There was a another forward a bit later, Gerry Hitchens from Villa who spent a few successful years in Italy playing for Inter, Torino, Atalanta and Cagliari.
 
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Hattie said:
On the Baker front, I’m sure he broke his leg while at torino then got a good name at Arsenal i believe 👀
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No tsure he broke his leg but he was involved in a serious car accident with Denis as his passenger when Joe crashed his Alfa Romeo into a city monument. He needed surgery and was on a drip for a month. At Arsenal he was top scorer for the four seasons he was there. Joe sustained a nasty injury at Forest in a cup game against Everton and was never quite the same player again, sadly. Forest had lost just once in 28 games with him and were challenging for a league and cup double. It all fell to pieces when Joe was sidelined for the rest of the season.
 
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