Manchester City* - 130 charges (and counting...) (Part 2)

Got no gold watches then

Given this is the only football forum I use, I think not.

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Haalands just a poor mans Harald Brattbakk…

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Hehe. Harald Brattbakk was quite good in his day (totally different player type though :smiley: ).
I remember well the 90s :slight_smile:
Rosenborg in Champions League and all that.
I used to have several friends who supported Rosenborg. Brattbakk, Jacobsen, Hoftun, Strand etc. were great players in those days (in a Norwegian specific setting, they were awesome).

Some of them, the best Rosenborg players from the 90s, could likely also have done well in England. Not all of them though.

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Yeah I remember highlights of that Rosenberg team in the CL. The Norwegian team in the late 90s was a decent side - I wonder if the current crop will be able to outdo them and make a WC quarter final?

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I don’t know, but we have certainly far better players today.
The side in the 90s (National team) was fearsome due to strategy (a simple but effective one), but not technicallly gifted compared to other teams. What is new is that today we have technically gifted players and we can ā€œrunā€ games and not just soak up pressure.

I think we have a chance to get all the way to the quarter finals, but I think getting out of the group is already quite good and then there is a substantial knock our phase with best of 32 and best of 16. We were drawn into a fairly difficult one with France and Senegal and didn’t really get one of the easiest groups like we had maybe hoped for.

Time will tell.