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Former Tottenham playmaker Rafael van der Vaart has sensationally claimed that Manchester Metropolis striker Erling Haaland shouldn’t be a world-class participant.
Since arriving in England simply over two years in the past, Haaland has scored 107 objectives in 117 appearances for Metropolis, serving to the membership win the Treble in his first season earlier than they retained the Premier League title final time period.
He has received the Golden Boot in his first two seasons at Metropolis, and is on target to say it for a 3rd time having netted 12 occasions in 13 outings in 2024-25.
Nevertheless, Metropolis have hit a dismal run of type underneath Pep Guardiola, failing to win any of their final seven matches throughout all competitions. They had been crushed 2-0 by Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday and at the moment are 11 factors behind the Reds within the league desk.
The objectives have dried up for Haaland throughout this winless run, and Van Der Vaart has accused Haaland of not contributing sufficient when he isn’t scoring.
Talking about Haaland on talkSPORT’s present The LineUp with BetMGM, Van Der Vaart defined: ‘I at all times stated, take away his tempo, I believe it is a regular participant. I do not need to get impolite to him, however technically-wise I believe it is usually not adequate.
Erling Haaland shouldn’t be thought of a world-class participant, in keeping with Rafael van der Vaart
Ex-Spurs star Van Der Vaart believes Haaland is only a ‘regular participant’ with out his tempo
Haaland has suffered a dip in type amid Metropolis’s run of seven video games and not using a win underneath Pep Guardiola
‘Usually, Metropolis has the ball and he is scored numerous objectives, however I miss one thing to speak a couple of world, world, world-class striker.’
Van Der Vaart, who spent two years at Spurs between 2010 and 2012 and received 109 caps for the Netherlands in his illustrious profession, added that Haaland couldn’t be in comparison with nice strikers of the previous, together with two of his fellow countrymen.
‘If you examine him up to now to (Marco) Van Basten or (Ruud) Van Nistelrooy – no, no, no, no,’ he stated.
When requested if Haaland belonged in the identical class because the likes of Van Basten and Van Nistelrooy, Van Der Vaart doubled down, including: ‘I do not assume so. Folks will giggle however that’s my opinion.’
Haaland flew out of the traps initially of the season by scoring 10 objectives in his first 5 league video games.
However his drop-off has coincided with Metropolis’s alarming stoop in type which has led to some pundits ruling them out of the title race already.
Haaland struggled to have any influence in Metropolis’s defeat by Liverpool as he got here off a distant second-best in his battle with Virgil van Dijk.
He’ll get the prospect to silence some his doubters – together with Van Der Vaart – when Metropolis bid to return to profitable methods at house to Nottingham Forest on Wednesday evening.
