‘It’s not about more points’ – Man City fans react as Liverpool legend offers blunt Erling Haaland verdict

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes new Manchester City signing Erling Haaland is not a ‘game changer’ for the reigning Premier League champions.

Pep Guardiola’s side pipped the Reds to the league title for a second time in four seasons last term as they won by just a single point. They’ve now invested in their squad further with the acquisition of the former Borussia Dortmund man.

However, Carragher doesn’t believe this will have a huge impact on the title race as City have already won the league so many times without him.

Speaking to Talksport, he said: “I still think City are favourites, but I don’t think Haaland is a game-changer for City in terms of winning the league, because they win the league now.

“Are they going to get 110? There’s only so many points in a season. I think Haaland is the icing on the cake for the Champions League and if he’s playing away in Madrid, they don’t lose that game.

“I think that is the difference he will make. He won’t make a huge difference to the league because City are that good anyway. I think when you look at what Liverpool did to catch City and get to that level of 90 plus points, they bought Alisson, Van Dijk – they were game changers.

“They took Liverpool from a team who got 75 points to a team looking to get 95 points. City are already at that level so I don’t think it’s going to be like that for Haaland, but you’d think with a striker like him and the players they have around him, it will give them a great opportunity in the Champions League.”

These Jamie Carragher’s comments shared on Twitter gathered a number of replies from a wide range of Man City supporters, who were not shy in sharing their thoughts on the matter.

“Not sure what is difficult to understand. We try to win every single trophy we can and Haaland will b part of that. Be it Carabao cup, FA cup, PL or CL, whatever trophies Haaland helps us to win, we are going to enjoy it to the fullest.”
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“It’s not about more points it’s about taking chances and giving us a better chance of winning games when they are close.”
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“Yeah his real agenda in this statement was to attack Haaland. Throwing in the ‘I still think they are favourites’ line was just designed to hide the attack.. Pathetic!.”
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“He’s the game changer in terms of continuing to get 90+ points as opposed to dropping off.”
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“He’s giving a new dimension to the attack. Now we can play long balls and provide an aerial threat for those crosses to not the box. Teams can’t just sit deep, crowd the middle and defend crosses against us anymore. He will provide the finish to those KDB through balls.”
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“In terms of the league I think his point is we will probably go from Champions of England to Champions of England. But Haaland improves us in those moments, the types of moments that can make or break the biggest games. Haaland is tailor made for competitions like the UCL.”
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“I do think whilst haaland doesn’t take us to a significantly higher level, the change in not having a striker is necessary to maintain this level. How many more seasons can we maintain this level without and outright goal scorer? Probably only one more?”
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“Halaand to us is a game changer we’ve been missing a point striker a lot in our past seasons many chances were wasted.”
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