Paul Pogba - Free Agent | ban reduced - able to play competitively from March 2025

talking robot said:
If I were him, I'd go play lower level football somewhere for the next few months...maybe a club like Bordeaux who are in a dog fight for promotion. Have some fun, re-find your love of the game, and then see what the future offers. He's got plenty of money already. Just make a decision for the love of the game.
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Can't say how much money he's still got
 
Sounds like a nightmare in all honesty. Football is untrust worthy and you are advised to eliminate all your friends and hangers on before you before a big star (Gary Neville just dumped all his mates and moved into digs as a teenager.) But you should be able to trust your family. Pogba's brother is scum of the highest order.
 
FujiVice said:
Sounds like a nightmare in all honesty. Football is untrust worthy and you are advised to eliminate all your friends and hangers on before you before a big star (Gary Neville just dumped all his mates and moved into digs as a teenager.) But you should be able to trust your family. Pogba's brother is scum of the highest order.
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Money corrupts.
 
talking robot said:
If I were him, I'd go play lower level football somewhere for the next few months...maybe a club like Bordeaux who are in a dog fight for promotion. Have some fun, re-find your love of the game, and then see what the future offers. He's got plenty of money already. Just make a decision for the love of the game.
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Yeah or at least something similar. There's no guaranteed road to success with all this, but it could be worth it to just try to join a team that won't pressure him too much, isn't too much of a playstyle misfit, and also a bit ready to give him more responsibility when/if he gets back into shape.

Very different situations, but it did work out very well for Eriksen. Pogba is a bigger gamble in both approach/playstyle and level of fame (or even status in general, as Eriksen got a lot of leeway and support besides just his introverted personality)

I like the type of player he is, the type of promise that allows even spectators to dream of the possibilities. That's all subjective and all, of course, but I would really like to see a return or reinvention at least attempted~

In the end it's his decision, and if you're used to a certain style of spectacle and stardom (and income) I can also imagine it being hard to go in another direction, even if the other direction is the only one available. But on a personal level I hope we get to see something, even if it ends up a huge failure.
 
kouroux said:
Can't say how much money he's still got
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I might be completely off base here but I get the impression the boy likes to spend. That being said, you can spend a lot of money and still have a lot when you are on £250K+/week for years.
 
mctrials23 said:
I might be completely off base here but I get the impression the boy likes to spend. That being said, you can spend a lot of money and still have a lot when you are on £250K+/week for years.
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You can but only if you stop spending it when you don't earn that much, the reality is that a lot of footballers don't know how to manage money and end up broke a few years after they stop playing
 
kouroux said:
Can't say how much money he's still got
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fair enough, though his net worth is still estimated to be around $125 million. if that's anywhere close to true, i'd stick to my original point. just do something for the love of the game in the short term. maybe it pays off next year, maybe it doesn't, but at least he'd be out there playing and using his god given gifts.
 
talking robot said:
fair enough, though his net worth is still estimated to be around $125 million. if that's anywhere close to true, i'd stick to my original point. just do something for the love of the game in the short term. maybe it pays off next year, maybe it doesn't, but at least he'd be out there playing and using his god given gifts.
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Those net worth estimations are reliable ?
 
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