No the fact being that one of the two has won something (successful) and was UEFA player of the tournament when we won something (helped to achieve).
In my opinion, to date the other started like a house on fire but has been consistently poor for 11 months now and ,other than the odd game, his form fell off a cliff when we went top of the league.
Both have had limited impact in big games but you can find good performances in them from both if you dig hard enough.
I don’t think either have been great, or very dissimilar overall. Pogba has been here longer and cost more. Is less of an impact player and has had streaks of good/bad form. We’ve struggled to find a way to get the best out of him but we’ve seen excellent performances many many times, but is swept under the carpet.
Bruno hasn’t been here as long and arrived with less expectation into a more balanced team, albeit with a lesser manager in hindsight, had a big immediate impact and was credited for single handidly transforming our season despite Greenwood, Martial, Rashford, Pogba and Matic all being huge parts of the post lockdown run. Even in that time Bruno started to have streaks of good/bad form as all players do, but we saw many excellent performances also, however he’s been poor since january and that’s almost a year now. The media do not and have not discussed Bruno’s poor performances in this time, while Pogba was excellent week in week out for much of the second half of last season, the Euros and the very start of this, the minute he has a run of poor form ‘We must talk about’ him.
I think we may also find a new manager struggles to fit Bruno into a functioning side, depending on how they set the team up.
I get that people don’t like Pogba, hence the discussions generally becoming personal whenever someone doesn’t share the opinion that he’s been a complete waste, but I also think that clouds people’s judgement massively and they become irrational.
You hit the nail on the head with regard to expectation. Pogba was bought for a club record feed and paid stupid money and given time to settle and every opportunity to show the type of form he had for Juve and France. He was accommodated and swapped partners and positions and pundits far and wide spoke about why
UTD, the manager, the players, could not get the best out of him...notwithstanding the fact that him and his agent court attention and play the media like no other and refuse to diffuse any tensions around his relationship with managers or long term tensions at the club. He seeks attention by expressing himself in the way he does but
does not back it up on the pitch...So while I respect his immense immense talent and ability...I think you reap what you sow...if he conducts himself differently, shuts up his agent, accepts criticism for his lazy performances and perhaps learned to adapt to a league where he has to play quicker and track back consistently then we wouldn’t be having this discussion...but he hasn’t done that and for a player looking for €400k per week or whatever- shame on him because what part of him looking in the mirror thinks he is playing at a level even close to a €400 k per week???? Mourinho had him pegged...so did Ferguson.
On the other hand, Bruno cost half the money and earns a third the salary...yet he didn’t need to settle into a new league even though he was coming from a farmers 5 aside in comparison to the PL...he made DVB and Fred and Werner and Havertz and Keita and now even Sancho look like fuking liars by needing so long to “adapt” cause he just kept doing what everyone expected him to...
we got what we paid for...and in keys stats alone (Which may be an unfair metric due to positional differences but none the less a metric with which impact on the team can be measured singularly) he slaughters Pogba’s output in less than half the time...he is never injured and runs a like his life depends on it...he is the antithesis of Pogba’s attitude...and even during this horrendous run of form his chance creation has remained high as he is a high risk player. That was who we bought-
we expected a high risk high reward player who
Lost possession but created relentlessly. We all saw his stats and we all knew that’s why NO ONE else was in for him...he is too wasteful for Klopp or Pep! but Bruno has done more or less exactly what it said on the tin while reinvigorating the whole team when he joined and showing a child like tenacity on the pitch we hadn’t seen in a Utd shirt since Rooney. He has been muck of late but his profile is to get the head down and work harder- and diffuse shit in the media as soon as it comes out...not to allow his agent to stir the pot.
Most of all...when the chips are down...and we have our backs to the wall and are being pummelled or need a late equaliser or winner...only oneof those two players is everywhere on the pitch closing down, CALLING for theball, shouting at team mates and at least trying to make something happen (even if his final product is off) the other plods around looking for someone else to take responsibility...I know which one I would want to be playing alongside and considering what Pogba himself thinks he is worth...that is shameful and it’s no wonder Roy Keane and other top midfielders of yester year question his application so often.
and finally...player of the EL...why yes, quite the achievement...or is it that he is the biggest name in the tournament with the most marketable Global presence to raise the trophies profile and show that it’s worth watching??? He was in his BOLLOX player of the tournament and stood out in exactly NONE of our really tame and limited performances against European cannon fodder. Truthfully - what game did he shine in? He is getting paid Messi and Ronaldo money and yet plays like Jonjo Shelvey on a good day...That cup was a Mourinho master class with several Utd players carrying out their instructions to a tee to allow us to win the thing...Pogba was part of that butname me the magical performances he put in that won him the award?
let’s leave it there...I like Pogba and love to see him boss other players like they are kids, swotting them away as he strides forward with purpose...but overall I see him for what he is...a flop. We expected and paid for much more but his own attitude and his choice of agent let him down. The pace of the league doesn’t suit him...I hope he goes back to Italy. On the other hand, Bruno for me has built up credit and deserves some loyalty...I expect him to get back to somewhat near his best but to be hanging him out to dry so soon...I just won’t do it.
People are still saying this too