The Scousers will be laughing their heads off as soon as it's announced like "hah, we got you, you're so screwed, enjoy!"I think a lot of non united supporters would secretly be pleased if we sold him.
1st for assists in open play. Pretty impressive considering we finished 6th.
Look at the world we live in, Trump, Brexit, lazy media narratives are the only thing people are interested in.It makes me sad to think there's too many Utd fans out there, too busy being sucked into lazy media narratives to critically think for themselves.
If he gave his all in every game he wouldn’t be getting the criticism. He’s deserved much of it whether he’s our best player or not. And I say that as somebody who likes Pogba and thinks we’re in trouble without him.The racist/xenophobic element is pretty obvious. The constant character assassination, attacking his hair, clothes etc. is reminiscent of the whole Sterling situation. It’s just disappointing that so many of our own fans have bought into the nonsense spewed by the media. I always thought our fans are generally a supportive bunch but watching so many turn on him, even booing him and then seeing people jump through hoops to justify this was an eye-opener. Pogba’s not infallible and his performances have often not been good enough but the way he’s been singled out is disheartening and I wouldn’t blame him for wanting to leave. The vitriol is intolerable.
The fella played about 60 games last year for club and country. I strongly suspect he was burnt out at the end of the season.If he gave his all in every game he wouldn’t be getting the criticism. He’s deserved much of it whether he’s our best player or not. And I say that as somebody who likes Pogba and thinks we’re in trouble without him.
What about at the start?The fella played about 60 games last year for club and country. I strongly suspect he was burnt out at the end of the season.
1st for assists in open play. Pretty impressive considering we finished 6th.
Funny the way they restrict assists to open play but include all his penalties in the goals scored column.
If I remember correctly, he had a hand in creating a good amount of the penalties he scored, and if not for the fouls a lot of them would have been assists.
He has been here 3 seasons now and we still havnt aligned the planets properly for him. What are we supposed to do, pay him more money?I hope he will get some more love next season which will bring out the best of him
What about at the start?
Occasionally. When either could be arsed. Which is why they get criticised.He and Martial were our best outfielders granted Paul's form fell off when he came back from injury. These two probably kept Mourinho in his job during that spell
Finally get a good team together.He has been here 3 seasons now and we still havnt aligned the planets properly for him. What are we supposed to do, pay him more money?
No, no, no. We can't tolerate a luxary player. Kroos or Modric would obviously take a team with Jones, Young, Lingard, Matic, Rashy, Lingard and Lukaku around them and make them champions while getting 30 assists, 20 goals from open play, running 15km per game and not using social media or cutting their hair during the length of their contract.Finally get a good team together.
ok so its another 2 years before he can play well for a full seasonFinally get a good team together.
He has still been our best performer and best player we gotok so its another 2 years before he can play well for a full season
Who says he hasn't already played well? This is his individual stats in a broken team that finished 6th.ok so its another 2 years before he can play well for a full season
Funny the way they restrict assists to open play but include all his penalties in the goals scored column.
Not to mention the usual caveat that players who rack up the most minutes will tend to top a lot of those stats and Pogba probably played more minutes than all the other midfielders he’s being compared with. Apart from, maybe, Jorginho?
Who says he hasn't already played well? This is his individual stats in a broken team that finished 6th.
Looks like a standout season to me.
It is ignored because that doesn't fit the narrative the media has created and people need their scapegoats.
Why can't people grasp the fact that one player cannot carry a whole team to victory, regardless of how good he performs.
The fact that Messi hasn't been able to carry Argentina to World Cup victory should make people realise the importance of the collective team at the highest level.
When Messi looks half the player for Argentina as he does for Barcelona, does that mean his commitment and quality should be questioned?
So... why is this argument accepted against Pogba? When we know how bad the team has been?
Found on Whoscored he's ranked 87th in terms of passing accuracy in PL :
As I said the passes attempted stat is very well driven by the tweet. It means nothing, as a player can attempt 3000 passes, half of them are miss passes.
What a useless statistic. Passing accuracy means nothing in football. The more you are a good player, the more you will attempt the most difficult passes in order to make things happens.
That's a terrible logic. Your logic doesn't correlate with the fact that other attacking midfielders have higher passing percentage than him. For example David Silva has about 88% passing accuracy percentage, or is he doing sideway passes ?
And a lot of CBs and DMs has a better % passing accuracy than him.
If you think that passing accuracy is a good way to judge a creative player, you don't understand the game. Sorry
Your picture.
Passing accuracy WTF.
Yeah but passing attempted is more accurate. I can attempt 3000 passes and miss all of them but who cares.
Passing attempted isn't the best stats but it's still tell a lot more about a player than the passing accuracy ffs.
As you wish.
The stats in the tweet is very well driven and it will suit the narrative for some here.
They play under guardiola so of course they'll always keep their pass in check.but out of curiosity pogba or silva who do you think attempts more difficult pass?Who mentioned CBs and DMs ? I'm talking about attacking midfielders. Way to escape the point I made because you have no answer on the fact that other attacking midfielders who attempt risky passes have higher passing percentage than Pogba.
City's two most creative midfielders this season, David and Bernardo Silva, have passing accuracy of 88% and 86% respectively, higher than Pogba's 82.8% one.
Unless you believe Pogba is the only attacking midfielder in the league who attempts risky passing.
Terrible logic. Just being rude isn't going to enforce your point against actual numbers.
Not more than your terrible picture.