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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?


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Who said it was a joke?

The joke is anyone outside of England thinking Harry fecking Kane is a better player currently the Zlatan.

25 goals or Ibra is a failure. That's the deal. it's been set. If he scores 24, he's Jamie Vardy level. If he manages to score less than 18, well, then, our club is joke.
 
I have. £150+m including wages is well over one-third of your total income (£395.178m) in your last published annual accounts (filed October 2015). Yes, your income has increased since then, but even so ...

Yes the payments and wages would be spread out into the future, but this comes on top of massive net spending on additions to your last title winning squad ... much of which also involves future payment commitments. Cumulatively this all adds up. Chickens come home to roost.
Are you saying that our wage bill is only 1/3 of our total income? Because I remember in the Fergie years the objective was to keep it to 50%. If it's now between 33% and 50%, we are actually doing better than we were.
 
Sterling and Sturridge or Messi and Neymar, not to mention all the players behind. The top two in Spain are way ahead of most of the other teams in Europe let alone there own league. Are you now going to start comparing Kane with Suarez as well? I have my personal opinion of Kane, rightly or wrongly, time will tell, but comparing him with some of the worlds best strikers over the last five years is frankly ridiculous, Im starting to think you are taking the piss, if you are serious **face palm**

i'm talking about leagues. No, Kane is not in the same league as Suarez. But he is in the same category as a 35 year old Zlatan, who only managed to score 25+ goals twice in his career before he went to France.
 
I have. £150+m including wages is well over one-third of your total income (£395m) in your last published annual accounts (filed October 2015). Yes, your income has increased since then, but even so ...

Yes the payments and wages would be spread out into the future, but this comes on top of massive net spending on additions to your last title winning squad ... much of which also involves future payment commitments. Cumulatively this all adds up. Chickens come home to roost.

And there we learned that you just dont know business at all.
 
How would you describe it after he just scored like 50 in Spain?
You forgot that all of Suarez' goals were freekicks or open play goals in 13/14. That's right, 0 goals from penalties because Gerrard took them. He could have had 40 goals in the PL alone if he took the pens too.
 
I have. £150+m including wages is well over one-third of your total income (£395m) in your last published annual accounts (filed October 2015). Yes, your income has increased since then, but even so ...

Yes the payments and wages would be spread out into the future, but this comes on top of massive net spending on additions to your last title winning squad ... much of which also involves future payment commitments. Cumulatively this all adds up. Chickens come home to roost.
Your obsession with United finances is disturbing.
 
You forgot that all of Suarez' goals were freekicks or open play goals in 13/14. That's right, 0 goals from penalties because Gerrard took them. He could have had 40 goals in the PL alone if he took the pens too.
he doesn't take all the penos in Spain. messi takes most, if he misses, Neymar does, and if one of them is on a hattrick, then they take it.

whereas Gerrard took them all the time.
 
Madrid's two most wanted players this summer were De Gea and Pogba and they lost to United both times. But I guess if you go by Glaston's theory Madrid purposely wanted to be publicly beat by United on Pogba after not getting De Gea just to drive the price up 25m.
 
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Personally I think there is more sense in that post than the talk about Kane. I think Dele Alli can go on to be a world class player comparable with Pogba talent wise in a few years. But people saying comparing Kane to Ibrahimovic, even a 34 year old one is just patheric.

I really like Alli, raved about him on here after the MK Dons game, but he's become hilariously and annoyingly over rated by people in this country.

Of course he's young and will get better but what's hilarious about Glastonburys post is his suggestions that Alli currently possesses things that Pogba doesn't, he was literally suggesting Alli is currently the better player . He blew his cover right there and then.
 
I can't believe there is so much bickering in a thread about a top class player who, for once, it looks like we will actually end up signing. Even the Vidal and Sneidjer threads were more positive and fun to read and they never really looked like happening at any point :lol: Bring on the Pog-ometer, or some funny gifs, anything is better than reading about bloody finances.
 
Outmuscled? For a player they don't really want? By a club that's playing in the EL next season and whom they'll have helped to bounce into massively overpaying for Pogba? I'm sure they'll be crushed.

You're being ridiculous. Of course they wanted him. They either couldn't afford Juve's price or didn't think he was worth the money.
 
why hasn't that fat piece of shit Mino thrown a chair yet? Get on it! I'm sleepy.
 
I have. £150+m including wages is well over one-third of your total income (£395m) in your last published annual accounts (filed October 2015). Yes, your income has increased since then, but even so ...

Yes the payments and wages would be spread out into the future, but this comes on top of massive net spending on additions to your last title winning squad ... much of which also involves future payment commitments. Cumulatively this all adds up. Chickens come home to roost.
Lets assume this straming pile of a post is somewhat accurate. What would the almighty Spurs transfer v income ratio be?
It must be lower than a third the way you're bleating on.
 
People saying Pogba does nothing and is massively overrated need to look at his club stats, yes he plays for the most dominant team in Italy but when you score or create 62 goals in 143 apps as a midfielder and not a defensive midfielder it really shows you how neutered he was tonight by Didier Deschamps who it seems was doing his best van Gaal impression.
Yes he was pretty average all tournament but when the likes of Kane made Gignac look awesome, it just shows you the pressure of big tournaments. Ronaldo was pretty poor all tournament and Muller was a shambles. Shit happens but do I still want Pogba, yes. Is the rumored price high, yes. Do I give two shits, no.
 
Are you saying that our wage bill is only 1/3 of our total income? Because I remember in the Fergie years the objective was to keep it to 50%. If it's now between 33% and 50%, we are actually doing better than we were.

No, I'm saying that spending £150m+ on Pogba alone (fee + wages) would be well over one third of your total income in your last published annual accounts.
 
Why do the mods tolerate Glaston?, all his posts are either wum posts, or posts putting down Utd in some way. Most users would get banned for that.
You know when someone talking like that on the high (no trophy to show yet), imagine the meltdown when SHTF. It would be comedy gold, so worth the wait.
 
Thought he had a decent tournament, especially considering his age. Also liked his passing tonight.
 
I really don't see it. He flits in and out of games, does some flashy things, but disappears when it's put up to him. Sure I'd like us to sign him as he's better than what we have, but he is completely overrated in my honest opinion. And I think the fee does matter. It's not my money, but if spending an extraordinate amount of money on a player if it means not signing others or selling good players, then I think it's madness.

José could mould him into a super player but in his current state, he isn't really that good. Sissoko looked better and not for the first time.
 
I really want to like him and be excited by his signing but I've just never seem him perform..
 
I really don't see it. He flits in and out of games, does some flashy things, but disappears when it's put up to him. Sure I'd like us to sign him as he's better than what we have, but he is completely overrated in my honest opinion. And I think the fee does matter. It's not my money, but if spending an extraordinate amount of money on a player if it means not signing others or selling good players, then I think it's madness.

José could mould him into a super player but in his current state, he isn't really that good. Sissoko looked better and not for the first time.

Sissoko was box-to-box. Pogba was a deep, deep, deep defensive anchor.
 
Why do the mods tolerate Glaston?, all his posts are either wum posts, or posts putting down Utd in some way. Most users would get banned for that.
One man's wum is another man's partisan. And there have been so many embarrassments - both on and off the pitch - in recent years that we've become fair game for anyone capable of semi lucidity. You need to be big enough to accept it. He's away from home after all.
 
Amazing, Isn't it?

You'd swear football doesn't exist outside England.
THIS !!!

When I saw that post I couldn't even muster enough strength and will to reply to the guy. On what stratosphere is Kane better than Ibra? I mean seriously? I swear some people think that football is in England or something.

Putting Kane and Ibra in the same sentence should be a punishable offense, even the age excuse about Ibra shouldn't spare anyone from life sentence in prison from uttering such statement :lol:
 
Love how having Rooney in the side effected Kane and Alli but Pogba playing out of position as a DM...
The Rooney debate is just what ABU's say to make them feel better (like Glaston). If anything, as Alli played with Rooney, Rooney had to play really deep, while Alli would just run around freely but ineffectively. With Pogba, his qualities suggest that he's a much better box to box and playing him in CDM limits his output massively.
 
THIS !!!

When I saw that post I couldn't even muster enough strength and will to reply to the guy. On what stratosphere is Kane better than Ibra? I mean seriously? I swear some people think that football is in England or something.

Putting Kane and Ibra in the same sentence should be a punishable offense, even the age excuse about Ibra shouldn't spare anyone from life sentence in prison from uttering such statement :lol:

Great job, jack-ass. You've blown your cover as an ISIS agent! I'm onto you!
 
Thought he had a decent tournament, especially considering his age. Also liked his passing tonight.

Most sensible post on this page. The Caf is full of morons for the most part that should be still in the newbs.
 
No, I'm saying that spending £150m+ on Pogba alone (fee + wages) would be well over one third of your total income in your last published annual accounts.
I understand. But you realise that doesn't actually count for much as you need to divide that figure by 5 and then look at annual income, assuming we sign him and he gets a 5 year contract? That annual income is meant to hit 500m the next year.

I believe we can comfortably spend 100-150m net per season on transfer fees for a few years going forward. If we sign Pogba, we'd have spent 160m without any sales yet. I think we'll be fine.

Again, I'll ask you to provide some better evidence that a 100m spend on one player would hit us hard going forward. Of course it's an insane fee but our income is even more insane.
 
Great job, jack-ass. You've blown your cover as an ISIS agent! I'm onto you!
Just admit you got caught into the British media hype and genuinely thought(or still think) that Kane is actually better than Ibra. I mean did you think through before typing that mate?
 
No, I'm saying that spending £150m+ on Pogba alone (fee + wages) would be well over one third of your total income in your last published annual accounts.

How much did you shit yourself when your club shelled out well in excess of your annual income on 7 players (+ wages) back in 2013, if you're this worried about United spending a third* of their income?


*will be considerably less than that