Andrij Lunin: “I prefer Erling Haaland over Kylian Mbappe as the number 9”

by TheBiasedSportsLover

18 comments

  1. Mbappe creates his own chances. Haaland needs constant service plus we still don’t know how he does against low blocks

  2. The title makes it sound way more serious than the spirit it was said in. But, no fault of OP here. I wouldn’t know how to phrase it to give it the tone that Lunin used.

  5. I agree definitely as the box striker, Haaland is positionally strict and will be a constant threat in the middle which will space out the field well. Mbappé doesn’t even like playing the #9 “#pivotgang” and drifts out wide too much. Obviously though if I’m Perez I’d still go for Kylian because you have the best player in the world for probably the next decade and a huge brand, but sporting wise Erling would be the better signing as he would perfectly co-exist with Vinicius. But we all know Florentino didn’t go for Kane in 2023 to save for Mbappé’s signing bonus and contract

  8. Same here. And not because I think Haaland’s a better player, far from it, but he’s absolutely a better #9 there’s no doubt about it, and it is a position we *need* to fill after Benzema left. Joselu is a very solid stopgap, he’s actually been good despite some lackluster finishing ability at times, but we need a world class #9 and Mbappe is NOT that.

    Mbappe occupies Vini’s space, I genuinely don’t understand how they’d both play together if he actually joins us, not to mention that Vini is practically our “starboy” and I don’t know how the dynamic would work if Kylian joins.

  10. Haaland is the number 9, Mbappe is the better player. Simple as that.

  11. He seems like a pretty cool guy, also he is a great goalkeeper

  14. Mbape is not a 9. It’s going to be a problem for Vini and I think he’ll eventually be pushed away, which I think is the real plan anyway

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