Haaland to the city, the central striker is ready to fill the void. Will he be able to live with Guardiola?

“We don’t have a striker position because our attacking center is space.” creative phrase with Pep Guardiola He explained his way of envisioning football, a sport he has tried to revolutionize in recent years with innovative ideas in keeping with the times. He is one of the most successful coaches of all time, but far from Barcelona he failed to win the Champions League; He tried first with Bayern Munich and then with Manchester City, always collecting a little satisfaction and a lot of unkind criticism.

Next season he will try again, relying on the new Prince For the center striker: Erling Haalandat this point, He can be considered by all intents and purposes a city player. An exceptional possession, because the Norwegian will celebrate the next decade with Kylian Mbappe and because his numbers, at the age of 22, are already incredible: 154 goals in 198 professional matches, 15 in 17 matches with the national team. An authentic phenomenon, it has slowed down in recent months due to some very many physical problems but it is of indisputable value. Many wanted it, in the end it would be enjoyed by Pep, who had never had an exceptional sense of numbers 9: from Eto’o to Ibrahimovic, and even Aguero and Lewandowski, many had problems receiving “information” and adapting to some “schemes”, especially mental ones. Coexistence may not be easy but everyone is in a home Citizens They hope to bring coveted big eared mug. The first signal has already arrived: Manchester City, after a few days of the bitter disappointment of elimination against Real Madrid, are already thinking about the future. And they do it massively.