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2021-22 Performances

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5.2 Season Average Rating
Appearances
27
Goals
1
Assists
9
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The guy gets hacked by 2 or 3 players every time he's on the ball and the refs just allow it to happen.
 
Our best player by a distance. Shame he’s blamed for everything. Will be hard to replace him in the summer.
 
Quality player. Our best by a long way. Will be sad to see him go while so many others who aren’t fit to lace his boots are continually celebrated.
 
He is playing well but he’s playing for a contract and I’m not sure these performances deserve a £500,000 one or if he wants one from us.

I’m just grateful we’re seeing the real Pogba before he starts packing.
 
He makes the other CMs we have seem non existent. Shame it's a mixture of injury record/consistency/giving a shit that he couldnt do it regularly for us.
 
Not seeing what a lot of posters did today, he was great for 30 or so minutes, and then seemed to vanish.

Still pops up with nice flashy moments, but he's basically nonexistent when the opposition has the ball, and holds on to the ball for far too long.
 
He’s probably been one of our better players every game he’s been back but his overall influence on a match is actually basically nil.
We’ve not actually won since he’s returned to the team. That’s by no means his fault but he has good moments on the ball in games but thats it. The game doesn’t really change because he’s playing. If he’s not on the ball you actually don’t really see him. And our midfield just always looks unbalanced regardless if he’s there or not.
 
Doing a good job of putting himself in the shop window.

Thought he was very good today.
 
Rajma said:
If only he could learn to release the ball sooner instead of hanging on to it needlessly that would help.
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Release the ball to who? None of our players make themselves available for a pass.
It's crazy that you'd think it's a fault of Pogba, when, for the French team he's capable of finding anyone on the pitch because they aren't scared to run off the ball, or have the quality to control it on the first touch.
 
Best player on the pitch by far. The difference in class between him and everyone else is just appalling.
 
Some of the passes he gives. So effortless. He's one of the most gifted players Ive ever seen. Doesn't really gel with United sadly.
 
Rajma said:
If only he could learn to release the ball sooner instead of hanging on to it needlessly that would help.
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That limits his game though, if he's having to be hacked to stop then it's a foul. If they didn't hack at him he'd have no issues with holding on to the ball for too long
 
villain said:
The guy gets hacked by 2 or 3 players every time he's on the ball and the refs just allow it to happen.
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It’s ridiculous. Maybe if he grew a slick back and put his shin pads down to his ankles they’d give him some decisions
 
My MOTM, great to see he didn’t get caught in possession against teams like Southampton that presses intensely

His technical ability alongside Sancho is on another level or two compared to their team mates.
 
Thought he was excellent today, especially first 45 barely put a foot wrong.

2nd half fell off a little but so did the whole team. He's working hard which is the main thing, as his talent is unquestionable.
 
Good game, but we used up 1 of his annual allocation of 10 good games and we didn't win the match.
 
In my opinion Pogba and Bruno are like our Trent and Robertson, the ones who will provide the assists and creativity. We need to build our team around those two. I just don't feel good losing this guy for free when the bigger problems are our CB, DM, and attackers.
 
Every time I see him play, I wonder: What if we bought a DM 5 transfer windows ago?
 
villain said:
The guy gets hacked by 2 or 3 players every time he's on the ball and the refs just allow it to happen.
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It's ridiculous but not new, the same was true for Fellaini and is true for McTominay. Being a large midfielder isn't a good thing from a refereeing standpoint.
 
JPRouve said:
It's ridiculous but not new, the same was true for Fellaini and is true for McTominay. Being a large midfielder isn't a good thing from a refereeing standpoint.
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At any level, speaking from painful experience of asking refs why smaller men were just allowed to boot me. and lunge recklessly in during my playing days. "You are a big lad, you can take it" but breathe on a smaller player and you were just the worst.
 
JPRouve said:
It's ridiculous but not new, the same was true for Fellaini and is true for McTominay. Being a large midfielder isn't a good thing from a refereeing standpoint.
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Just shows the double standard of refereeing in this country, like DWelbz said if Pogba was Grealish he'd (rightfully) be awarded free kicks more often, and opposition players would think twice about harassing him all game.
 
JPRouve said:
It's ridiculous but not new, the same was true for Fellaini and is true for McTominay. Being a large midfielder isn't a good thing from a refereeing standpoint.
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One thing I'll give McTominay is that he knows how to milk a challenge and win fouls.

Unlike Fellaini and Pogba who needed to be chokeslammed off the top of a cage WWF Mankind style in order to win a free kick, McTominay knows how to make every tackle look painful which, more often than not, gets the ref to blow.
 
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