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How is it drastic to expect an improvement of at least 5-10 goals from each of our attackers? I don't really disagree that we need a striker but at the same time, even if we do get one, we still need the others to score more than they did if we want to win the league or at least challenge for it.

Where did you get that stat? Because from what I've seen is we're in 13th (not that it's great), just one place below Liverpool. City won the league basically without a recognized ST and their conversion rate only puts #4 in the table. Is it wrong to believe that our attackers can add at least somewhere between 5-10 goals next season?

Yeah and nothing new...

How much time did you spend screenshotting all of that?? 😱

The only thing I've seen from Simon Johnson this... Otherwise, nothing new.

What Tomo said really...

The Athletic is not known to report every single transfer rumor. If they are reporting it, then maybe there is some truth to it. I don't think they have reported anything on Haaland, have they after the Fjortoft and Matt Law stories?

Even The Athletic are reporting it now... And according to them, the club's offer for Hakimi doesn't yet include Emerson or Christensen.

Fairly certain they did not, especially based on the 4 managers' profile during his loan spell.

Didn't Christensen also look decent in a back 4 at Gladbach?

If Christensen is a liability in a back 4, then so is Rudiger. Both of them have done their best work in a back 3, first under Conte and then Tuchel.

City just won the league without a 20-goal striker and their top scorer was Gundogan with 13 goals. They also had only two players with 10 more goals and ended up scoring 25 more goals than us overall. If our attackers chip in with additional 5-10 goals at the very least, if the midfielders and wingbacks can chip around 5 goals, then it's not impossible to challenge for the title at least. Even if we get Haaland, we can't expect him to be the only one to score the goals. Others also need to increase their output. And have said this long before, not sure how realistic is it as well to expect a 21-year-old to come to the Premier League and immediately lead a team to a title win/challenge, freak-of-nature or not.

If we don't get Haaland, it's not the end of the world. Haaland or not, I expect this team to do better next season and based on the trajectory and points gained under Tuchel, I'd say we're more than capable of achieving it. We don't have to throw money at every problem, not when we have a squad that can improve and be worked further.

Too much talk and speculation, KK...show me the money!

Am sure they would have thought all of that before coming out to insist they won't sell Haaland this summer. If they are open to do so this year, they would have set a price with him like they did with Sancho but all their stance up till now is "he's not for sale". As I said earlier, we would have to make a batshit crazy offer for them to maybe consider it. Just because they know better doesn't mean anything. They don't control what their board do, just like we here on TC or any other fans on other forums. I know you are VERY desperate for us to buy Haaland but chill.....

You think Roman and the board really care what the others do? With that kind of money being spent, they would expect a proper ROI back - e.g. winning the league title. After all, you have people saying Haaland is the missing piece, the difference between us winning the league and not...

Did they say that with Mkhitaryan? The difference is he had only a year left on his contract then, which forced Dortmund to sell him as Watzke later admitted - https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36693832. But on the flip side, there are examples where Dortmund stood their ground with Sancho and Lewandowski. And what does fans' views have anything to do with this?

Still. A major reason why we went bonkers with the spending last summer because we already got the money from the sales of Hazard and Morata in the bag. We haven't heard many, if any, rumors about the others so far. So god knows if there's any interest or not.