The Haaland Paradox is an exceptional sub-plot to a curious season. Manchester City really should have bought Harry Kane. They didn't really need a No. 9.
Manchester City may have bigger things to worry about right now than the trials and tribulations of a striker with 25 Premier League goals, but the Haaland Paradox is becoming one of the more diverting sub-plots of an unusual season.
The price they’ve paid for Haaland’s goals is the ceding of midfield control. And it’s a price that’s too high for a team with Manchester City’s ethos. There’s also a clear sense that City are still coming to terms with the specific nature of the weapon they now possess. Again at Spurs it was noticeable how often he made runs that weren’t spotted by his team-mates, with Kevin De Bruyne’s inexplicable absence from the first hour of the game perhaps an aggravating factor.
If Kane is your striker, you don’t need to worry about a dip in the passing quality when the ball hits the front. You don’t need to worry that your clever attacking players around and behind him will find themselves starved of opportunity. You don’t need to worry that even if you have 65% of the ball and 70% of the territory your centre-forward will somehow still be isolated and unreachable.
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