Is this really been the case like ever or just another made up scenario by people who just don't Like Pogba .
Right but I'm unsure how you think he was underappreciated.
I don't think he was a negative influence at all, people just don't like the constant dancing about like a wanker, the haircuts, the tiktoks, etc, all of which took his focus away from his performances, and gave fans a stick to beat him with.
Didn’t Pogba win four league titles with Juventus in a row? You can’t say he’s done nothing in club football. Pogba’s a great player in an already great team, but he is never the type of player to drag a team above its level.
Was he with the chair chucker?
Be mad if he doesn’t take it
He barely managed 3 months of full consistency in his entire time at United (Ole's caretaker stint November to Jan). I think that says everything.
fair enough we're all entitled to our opinions.At some point you just gotta say hes not that bright, and its reflected in his football, very skilled, lots of talent, half the time terrible at using it, looked clueless.
I do think people are unfairly harsh on his first four years here. He got so much abuse for inconsistency and poor performances, when in reality he was probably the most consistent player we had over those four years. Still inconsistent as all hell of course, but him being 50/50 good/bad is better than basically everyone else who were about 30/70. Him getting so much more criticism than his teammates despite actually outperforming them never sat well with me. Others had individual seasons where they were better than him, but when looking at the entire time Pogba was better.
Imo the main reason is he's simply a showboating attacker disguised as a midfielder. Guy lacks basically all the discipline, work ethic and consistency to be a top midfielder. Then he relies too much on his physical to beat the press which might works well in a less physical and slower league like the Serie A but obviously not very well in the PL. He might give you the occasional brilliance but not the consistency, which is probably the most important thing for a midfielder imo.
Thing is, the defenders of Pogba hailed him as a generational talent who is incredible to watch when on song. But the same folk don't want to hold him to generational standards.
Some of that is certainly true. He definitely needed to keep Raiola on a shorter lease, and some of his social media work was poorly timed. Although once again other players have certainly done the latter without the save level of blowback about it.
Difference of opinion. If you dick around allowing your spokesperson to unsettle the squad before key CL games, and you yourself undermine the manager in your own interviews, and you dick about on social media when you're clearly in poor form, all while being a top earner at the club, then you get the brunt of it. It's that simple.
this made me genuinely laugh out loud. Guy in an absolute nutshell
See, for me, this is the kind of over-exaggeration that made it hard to discuss Pogba on this forum over the years. He had many brilliant performances in his time here, far more than a handful. Yes, he did show inconsistencies over the years too, but so did the team around him and frankly I think it was a two-way street, neither Utd nor Pogba made enough of his talent during that spell. I don't want to defend him too much as those final seasons, with injuries, his moaning and that stupid documentary, did sour the taste, but he's always faced over-the-top criticism compared to others.
Funny how people only remember the bad.
I genuinely only remember than one game against City where he scored 2 goals. The rest is a blur that mostly involves him or his agent running their mouths about leaving and being injured.
