I have a slightly different idea, Haaland is not the key factor that helped Man City win the championship. Erling Haaland is a small player in a big match, he always fails in the final. Typically, the 2024 FA Cup final, lost 1-2 to Mu. When not scoring or assisting, Haaland played the entire match and did not create any chances for his teammates. And Haaland is also considered one of the reasons why Man City stopped playing in Europe's most prestigious playground. In the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Man City lost to Real Madrid. Haaland's lackluster partly caused Man City to fail. Actually, Haaland always disappears in important moments.
However, few people can match Haaland's scoring record each season. Won the title of top scorer in the Premier League for 2 consecutive years.
Since Erling’s early days of football at Dortmund and his boyhood club, you will understand how prolific of a striker he will become. Now at Man City, he has been consistently scoring and taking his chances real good and that now makes him to be placed among the prolific strikers that have graced the game of football. Now the problem you can say is with the style of his play, for Haaland he just stays up front and wait for the midfielders to do the job of getting the ball and bringing it to him and that, he hits the goal.
This style of play is always of disadvantage to most style of play, especially a style that involves the whole team participating, this leaves him up idle and most times the team suffers it because they are playing with a man down while defending and progressing with the ball. In so many matches we have seen how he has gone ghosting and you don’t expect that from a prolific striker like Erling. In the FA Cup final against Man United and Quarterfinal against Madrid.
You can see how Man City were playing most times without him and that goes to show the need for a ball playing striker that can progress with the ball. Haaland being compared to great legends of the EPL, means that Haaland will have huge work to do especially in terms of ball playing with the team because that could be the only thing lacking in his style of play to bring him to same level with other EPL legends.