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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?


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I remember the furore around Keane wanting £50k a week. Everyone thought football had gone mad.
In a few years we'll all be used to average players earning £200k, and when we start paying players £500k a week people will claim football has gone mad and is being ruined by money. And so the cycle will continue forever.
 
This is just great. I'm off on holiday all next week. Was hoping to not spend the entirety clicking refresh on the phone. Least I'll be sitting on a beach while doing the same.
 
Scholes will cost nothing for the simple reason he won't move away from OT. Do you know what happened when Moratti tried to contact his agent?

he ended up speaking to SAF as he had no aget

It was a hypothetical question
 
Never realised Pogba has a Manc-French hybrid accent.


Yeah it's the first time I noticed that. The story about him having to train alone sucks... When we get him back, if we do, we should make sure we don't make such a mistake again.
 
I remember the furore around Keane wanting £50k a week. Everyone thought football had gone mad.

Yeah i remember it well myself. It was in 2001 wasn't it? We finally managed to break the wage structure when Kenyon took over from Edwards.

And i imagine Ferguson was looking forward to blowing everyone out of the water on wages as well as transfer fees, and for a short time we did to be fair. We signed Veron, RVN and Ferdinand. Then two years later Roman bought Chelsea and once again we were playing second fiddle in the wages department lol.
 
Who is this Andreas Varela guy who is adamant Pogba is joining Real Madrid?

I can't find a legit article by him when I do a quick Google Search.
 
I have the feeling that Woody and the board are going to put up suns that no one will be willing to match.

Money is going be Pogba's no.1 consideration. It is for every player.

We have been looking for a superstar poster boy for three years now. There haven't been any available really, and Pog is the only realistic one out there right now.

Just let United get their hands on him and we'll hype him to Ronaldo/Beckham level

Yes.

This is the Jose Mourinho effect. Zlatan, Mkhi, and Pogba would never be interested if anyone else was at the helm.

Bollocks. Finances are no. 1, and we are being very aggressive with wgat we are willing to offer.

I would also like to add

I LOVE WOODY

For bringing United up to the times with global elite sport, in terms of not being afraid to compete at the very high end financially.

I can't even begin to list the star players we have missed out simply because we wouldn't meet the market rate for their fees or wages, or pay the effing agents fee.

I think a lot of the skepticism on here when we are linked to top players stems from our history of being penny pinchers on the last 10% under Fergie/Gill.

A United with a good team that challenges in the world's by far most watched and competitive league AND that pays as well as anyone is going to be one of the very, very most attractive propositions for players in world football.

I fully expect in 3 years time for us to beat everyone to players as much as anyone can to us.
 
Who is this Andreas Varela guy who is adamant Pogba is joining Real Madrid?

I can't find a legit article by him when I do a quick Google Search.
Just some 12 year old boy pretending to be a twitter journalist :lol:
 
I'm not sure about the finances of any particular club in the 90's and whether they were richer than United. Most probably weren't. But what i do know is that all the top clubs in Spain and Italy were offering far higher salaries than United were in the 90's. Even the likes of Chelsea and Middlesbrough had players on more than United. Wasn't Ravanelli on like £40-50k per week or something in 97.

United had a self imposed wage cap of i think £25k per week. Which saw us lose out on many top signings.

It was about £33.000 I think. It was eventually Keane that forced United to abandon it 2000 I think, when he threatened to go to Bayern M. He wanted about £50.000 and United gave in - thank God.
 
In a few years we'll all be used to average players earning £200k, and when we start paying players £500k a week people will claim football has gone mad and is being ruined by money. And so the cycle will continue forever.
This is the same with anything house prices, cars etc etc I don't known why we are more supprised when it applies to football. Maybe it's because we have a better memory for football stats then we do anything else.
 
How many transfer records did Sir Alex break over the years?

The "Value in the market" period took us from a team with Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez, Berbatov to one with Valencia, Young, Welbeck and Hernandez.

This.

The main benefit of signing Pogba would be the fact that it would open the door to other signings and put the club back on the map. People would start thinking United are back in business, and other top playes would think 'well if it's good enough for Pogba, it's good enough for me too.'

In 2003 Barcelona were in the doldrums and relaunched themselves by nicking Ronaldinho from United. In 2009 Real Madrid did the same by signing Kaka, Ronaldo and Benzema. All those players cost big money but their effect was priceless; nowadays every player in the world wants to sign for one of Spain's big two and they reach the semi-finals of the CL pretty much every year.

It seems United are trying to follow the RM/Barca example by hiring a big-name manager and going after a marquee name to put the recent turmoil behind us. If it works no-one will care about the money it cost.

Excellent points. I also think this is part of Woody's thinking.

It's inevitable that the Premier League will become the place for top class players. When mid table Premier League teams are willing to pay £30m+ and £150k a week for some of Europe's top talents we'll get to a stage where no player is going to choose what we'd class as historically big European teams over historically small Premier League teams. It's already happened with the Milan clubs vs the likes of West Ham/Everton.

If it carries on the Premier League will become a super league.

Absolutely. It will take a couple of seasons to see the full effects, but the financial pull (and the compeition, managerial talent, and prestige) are going to ensure that even midtable PL teams have top players in their ranks.
 
There is no way that is true.
Read somewhere that Van Basten won around 15m from Ajax and Milan including endorsements(might not be true of course), but if he got 100k per week that's close to 5m per season, so yeah I pretty much doubt those figures.
 
In a few years we'll all be used to average players earning £200k, and when we start paying players £500k a week people will claim football has gone mad and is being ruined by money. And so the cycle will continue forever.
The real tragedy is that most fans are not even at 200k a year yet we are going to pay those guys per week. That sucks for those in this situation.

What I hope for all united fans: that we all earn at least 200k a year so that we can go support a team of players earning 200k a week, including Pogba!
 
he's lived in Manchester before so I don't think climate will be a shock or problem for him.
He has mates already at United
Zidane - great player but jury still out on whether he will be a great manager.
He can always stay 4-5 years at United and make another big money move to Spain

I am getting a growing feeling

also getting a feeling that we have a strong chance on this one, should we be able to convince Juve to sell. They'd be silly to turn down 100 milllions
What the hell, I like your reality better anyway.
 
He came across really well in that interview. Said all the right words and you can tell he's not bitter. So, people can't use that against him now saying he has a grudge against the club.
 
There's no way Bale was worth £93m a few years ago, yet he was sold for that amount, and looks value for money now.

When Bale was sold he had already shown many moments of breath-taking brilliance and a capacity to take games by the scruff of the neck win them almost single-handedly. This, and his general impact on the world of football, was far in excess of anything shown by Pogba so far. And all in a league far tougher than Serie A.

If Bale at that time was rated a 10, Pogba is currently a 5 or 6. There is no real comparison.
 
Crazy accent. Mostly French but then breaks out into some Manc for a few words.

That is another reason why this isn't a gamble like Di Maria. We know that he won't start crying about the weather, food or city.
Turin isn't a particularly pleasing place either I think.
 
When Bale was sold he had already shown many moments of breath-taking brilliance and a capacity to take games by the scruff of the neck win them almost single-handedly. This, and his general impact on the world of football, was far in excess of anything shown by Pogba so far. And all in a league far tougher than Serie A.

If Bale at that time was rated a 10, Pogba is currently a 5 or 6. There is no real comparison.

Bale is a winger.
Pogba a CM.

Bale scoring 20 goals looks average compared to the numbers put up by Ronaldo and Neymare and Messi.

The only CM that scored more goals than Pogba right now is probably Yaya Toure, and that was Yaya at his prime.

As for taking games by the scruff of the neck. Bale played for a shit Tottenham team, whereas Pogba broke through at a pretty good Juventus team including CM players like Pirlo and Vidal.