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2016-17 Performances

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6.3 Season Average Rating
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51
Goals
9
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Not taking any risks whatsoever but Zlatan is making absolutely no runs for him, and the wingers are far too deep.
 
£90 million and garbage against City, Liverpool and now Chelsea. Not acceptable
 
He's a massive problem. So lazy and not doing anything going forward to make up for it.
 
Emdad Ahmed said:
He is not helping Herrera and Fellaini defensively in that midfield
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Good to be honest. Are we supposed to have 3 defensive midfielders?
Our players are handcuffed at the minute. Expect more excuses as to why Mata / Martial and Miki can't play so he can have Fellaini's height and extra fullbacks in Lingard and Rashford.
 
Ed Woodward's marketing signings haven't been to successful, have they?

Still time for Cavani.
 
Dont get me wrong, hes a quality player at his best, but he would barely be worth 40m if it wasnt for the United contract shite. Nowhere close the best midfielders in the world. Hes not fit to lace the boots of the likes of modric, kroos, iniesta, pjanic, vidal, verratti and so on
 
I said it at the time and was slandered. He is a 40 million pound player. The 90 million puts so much pressure on him, that he wont be able to meet.
 
Hugh Jass said:
I said it at the time and was slandered. He is a 40 million pound player. The 90 million puts so much pressure on him, that he wont be able to meet.
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He isn't even playing like a 40 million player.
 
But he looked like Messi in his latest advert! Truly made him look like a gift to this world.
 
He needs to work more for the team. make simple passes, keep the team ticking. Instead he's trying too much and its going horribly wrong. Keep it simple lad
 
Painful first season back at United. He's still young enough to become a huge player for us but at the moment he is just creating more problems.
 
Flat-track bully.

He got dominated by a guy that was a quarter his size. Has all the presence of a carrier bag.

He needs to stop fannying around on social media and fancy hairdos and work on his trade.
 
What worries me so much about Pogba is not necessarily his performances, but what Mourinho said in the summer about him (and all our transfer targets in general). If Pogba was signed because he fit Mourinho's 'profile' of a midfielder that we needed, then what the feck was that profile?

Because I see nothing to suggest that Pogba is rounded enough to fit into one particular defined role and the more I watch him the more he looks like a £90m jack of all trades and master of none. More to the point, the fact that he's now played in about 42 positions suggests that Pogba's suitability to the so-called profile has to be questioned. Did we really sign him because he fit what Mourinho was looking for in a midfielder, or did we sign him because his name is Paul Pogba?

There's almost no doubting the boy is talented, even today he managed to do something I'm not sure many else on the pitch could have done, but for £90m you expect the world class finished article. Pogba is a long way from that.
 
Weirdest player I've ever seen. Infinitely gifted but doesn't have much impact on games. The midfield battle between him & Kante was as one-sided as it gets.

Not sure his young age is the greatest excuse either Verratti, Koke, Kante, Thiago are all lesser talented players in the same age bracket that are all more impactful over 90 minutes. He's played alongside two outstanding midfielders in Pirlo & Vidal who dominate games in very different fashions yet he plays like he's still learning the game.
 
NinjaFletch said:
What worries me so much about Pogba is not necessarily his performances, but what Mourinho said in the summer about him (and all our transfer targets in general). If Pogba was signed because he fit Mourinho's 'profile' of a midfielder that we needed, then what the feck was that profile?

Because I see nothing to suggest that Pogba is rounded enough to fit into one particular defined role and the more I watch him the more he looks like a £90m jack of all trades and master of none. More to the point, the fact that he's now played in about 42 positions suggests that Pogba's suitability to the so-called profile has to be questioned. Did we really sign him because he fit what Mourinho was looking for in a midfielder, or did we sign him because his name is Paul Pogba?

There's almost no doubting the boy is talented, even today he managed to do something I'm not sure many else on the pitch could have done, but for £90m you expect the world class finished article. Pogba is a long way from that.
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42 different positions but not once in his actual position as left of a midfield three, with two actual footballers next to him. That's the real problem.
 
Irrational. said:
Flat-track bully.

He got dominated by a guy that was a quarter his size. Has all the presence of a carrier bag.

He needs to stop fannying around on social media and fancy hairdos and work on his trade.
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Even flat track bully would be an over statement so far this season
 
He's been awful in the big games, but I feel the price tag is getting to him.

Still, I think he'll come good.
 
Far too casual. He needs to impose himself more. I'll keep saying it, there is a fantastic player in him to be unleashed but unfortunately it's taking longer for him to show it.
 
Manchie said:
Invisible in the fecking 90minutes for fecking 90 million
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I'm in Tanzania in a game reserve. Listened to the game on BBC Swahilli where I did not understand a word expect the players names.

I think I heard 'Pogba' less than 10 times in the whole game.
 
He is lazy in defending.. we are not defending as a team.. and he is not doing his job, so we are always on the backfoot
 
11101 said:
42 different positions but not once in his actual position as left of a midfield three, with two actual footballers next to him. That's the real problem.
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He's played on the left of a midfield three lots including today and at no point has it lead to any indication that his performances might be better there. Sure football is a team game, and he needs help from his midfield partners, but the inverse is true too. If we've spent £90m on a midfielder who has to play in a narrow, defined position with two very specific types of player around him before he becomes capable of putting in a remotely competent performance (and thats the low standard we're talking about here: competency) then thats an even bigger worry than his performances so far have been.
 
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