@hungrywing When you typed this part , were you sober ? There aren't many players of his age, if any at all, who would accept playing for less money. That's just delusion
Stone cold sober, man. :sadfaceemoji: Hence the 'easier said than done' part.
Again, that was about psychology and how specifically Woodward contributed greatly to propping up Pogba's mental deficiencies. For Paul Pogba to actually become $89m $290k/w Paul Pogba, he has to paradoxically accept and embrace that he's NOT $89m $290k/w Paul Pogba. And once he does this, he'll actually become $89m $290k/w Paul Pogba. Sounds crazy, I know. The lesser-intelligent posters might react with a '
what did I just read' but posters like you and sammsky at least have questions regarding specifics.
It's like a man or woman coming into the doctor's office, two hundred pounds overweight, smoking three packs a day, drinking a fifth every day. '
Patient: Doc, I feel horrible. The only time I feel okay is when I'm smoking or drinking or eating.' 'Doctor: Okay, if you want to feel better, you have to stop doing all those things'
Is it delusional to expect them to stop? Probably. Is that advice technically wrong?
It'd be easy to just say no, but in truth, it's paradoxically yes and no, since alcohol and sugar do make one 'feel better' temporarily due to science things. Paul can go on thinking he's '$89m $290k/w Paul Pogba' (thanks to Raiola and Woodward), and sadly that would be exactly the thing that would and will always keep him from becoming that.
I've posted about the quirky phenomenon of ultra-elite performers in various fields asking for less pay when they anticipate positive trade-offs for the organization so I'll try to refrain from doing that again. (Btw, we have someone in our squad right now who I believe is very likely to be in this category. And I would love - loooooooove - to be in the room when his contract re-negotiations happen.
Woodfart/Crudge: We want to up you to $300k/w. Player B: But then that's 12m/yr that you could use to do _____ for the club. I don't want. Bye. Or even better:
Player B's Agent: Woodfly wants to pay you more. Player B: Tell him to feck off. Literally tell him that. I don't want him to call you for another five years. That idiot does everything out of fear, and if he wants to pay me more it's because he's afraid others will make fun of him for not paying me 'what I'm worth'.')
Just when I thought it was exactly impossible to hear another excuse mitigating Pogba’s lack of consistency or commitment to the club, you came up with this beauty! Serious respect!
I hope you've noticed that I disapprove - to put it mildly - of his whole time at the club and want him gone yesterday, so it most certainly is not an excuse for his attitude. It's a technical analysis of
how he could fix his attitude/mentality; it's the only way, although extremely unlikely he'll understand why.
But Woodward's role in the whole Pogba fiasco is far, far greater than generally realized on the caf. Pogba's contract, dressing room status and squad role were a manifestation of Woodward's rampant insecure narcissism and the damage it causes to an organization. I say 'were' there because it looks like Ole's done a good job of excising the latter two elements, and soon, we hope the third.
P.S. The rest of this isn't specifically in response to samn's post; just some additional musings regarding the Pogba contract.
Even now, a year or so on from when the tide finally turned and people have largely stopped even calling Wooddumbass a 'financial genius' and the caf as a whole seems to at least a vague notion that everything he's doing is harmful to the organization, one can still find people calling out Sanchez' contract as 'the worst deal in the history of the club'.
Pogba's contract holds that title and It's not even close. If the Sanchez contract is at the top of Everest, Pogba's is on the ISS. Sanchez's contract was a merc contract given to a merc by a moron that by that time everyone in the important parts of the footballing world knew to be a moron. Pogba's contract was a merc contract given to a merc pretending-to-be/packaged-as the savior of the organization a by a moron that everyone in the important parts of the footballing world weren't maybe quite sure was a moron before, but were VERY sure he was an absolute-fecking-idiot-and-then-some after. That contract was a desperation-bomb - '
We'll whore ourselves out to anybody!' whose effects are still being felt today and from which only just now - almost half a decade later - the club is showing signs of possibly escaping from.
Very few people - at least on the caf - understand how much the blood was in the water after that contract. After the Pogba contract, even the least-sensitive-to-this-kind-of-shit executives/agents realized how ignorant and narcissistic (and hence manipulable) Woodward was.
