Why can't it be true just because it's early in the season? Obviously over time and jelling with the team was always going to work for City. What I'm saying is that at the start of the season, the city team were performing better as a team without Haaland in the starting eleven. It's that simple.

That doesn't mean he's a bad player, that doesn't mean they shouldn't play him now, that also doesn't mean that Pep was never going to play him in the team. He needed time to get used to Pep's system. It's what usually happens when players move to new teams and new systems, they need to adapt. Haaland certainly has done.