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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?

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Everyone knows £100m is a lot of money. Even Pogba's biggest fans, me being one, agree that this is an astronomical fee.

But if thati s what the club are willing to pay, so be it.

Do we need to keep having the debate about the potential cost? Surely his ability should be paramount?!
 
TJSF said:
If that's all that United can aspire, then it's in trouble. Point is, Pogba is not worth 100M, and is a huge gamble that is better spent on other quality players.
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Its not your money. Why are you so concerned about the fee.
 
Raoul said:
Because long transfer threads tend to bring out the most idiotic comments. People want their transfer delivered gift wrapped and if it doesn't happen they start saying idiotic things.
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To be fair Raoul, we have been here many times before and it often turns out bad.
 
Why should we be looking at other quality players? We are rich, why do so many of our fans want us to penny pinch instead of battling the likes of Real and Barca to the best talents in the world. It's utterly baffling.
 
TJSF said:
If that's all that United can aspire, then it's in trouble. Point is, Pogba is not worth 100M, and is a huge gamble that is better spent on other quality players.
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Look, it doesn't matter if he isn't worth that in a football sense. Juve wants that amount. United want the player not only for his current ability, but his potential. Potential in football, potential to show the current players, fans, and future signings that United will do whatever it takes to win trophies. Potential to bring in sponsors.

Reputation matters a lot. Just think of Zidane. He going to Real Madrid is still paying off because many players grew up idolizing him. Those young players want to play under him and want to play for the shirt he played under.
 
RetroStu said:
To be fair Raoul, we have been here many times before and it often turns out bad.
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That's because of the group psychology that takes place in transfer threads, not the transfers themselves. There are a lot of weak, emtionally feeble people in these threads who somehow think football will make them happy today by presenting them with a shiny new player. If it doesn't happen according to their impatient timelines, they then suddenly get sad or angry. The way to deal with transfer threads (as always) is to allow them to play out and get excited after we buy the player, not based on the speculation that we might buy them.
 
RetroStu said:
To be fair Raoul, we have been here many times before and it often turns out bad.
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Yes, the player will go to another club, not renew his contract with a club that can't compete with us financially or otherwise. Real Madrid are out of the picture, City, PSG and Barcelona aren't in the scene. The only thing in our way is Juventus. That doesn't worry me at all.
 
Can't believe we're fartin' around with Raiola and Pogba.

Never give in / give way to blackamialers.

Together, they've shit on us once and they'll shit on us again.

£100 million for Messi, perhaps, but not for this guy and and his pimp !!!!!
 
Way back in 2001, Juve themselves paid over £47m for a goalkeeper. Granted that Buffon proved to be excellent value for money, but the fee doesn't half make Pogba's price seem a bit more reasonable.
 
SammyUnited_83 said:
Apart from Zlatan had already decided that he was leaving PSG.

Pogba doesn't want to leave, and Juve don't want to sell that's our problem.
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Yes, but even though we were heavy favourites and massively linked to him, he still postured and said "oh it might not be manchester he moves too". He likes to play games in the press and keep them guessing. Strangely enough we still signed him. I am not bothered by anything he says.
 
SteveJ said:
Way back in 2001, Juve themselves paid over £47m for a goalkeeper. Granted that Buffon proved to be excellent value for money, but the fee doesn't half make Pogba's price seem a bit more reasonable.
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think he was about £32
 
Raoul said:
That's because of the group psychology that takes place in transfer threads, not the transfers themselves. There are a lot of weak, emtionally feeble people in these threads who somehow think football will make them happy today by presenting them with a shiny new player. If it doesn't happen according to their impatient timelines, they then suddenly get sad or angry. The way to deal with transfer threads (as always) is to allow them to play out and get excited after we buy the player, not based on the speculation that we might buy them.
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Its better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all.
 
SteveJ said:
Way back in 2001, Juve themselves paid over £47m for a goalkeeper. Granted that Buffon proved to be excellent value for money, but the fee doesn't half make Pogba's price seem a bit more reasonable.
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We also paid fairly high fees for Rio and Rooney (at the time) and wound up getting rewarded nicely. The same would (imo) happen with Pogba.
 
Fully Fledged said:
Looking for an improved contract?
This needs to be done soon or walk away. We can't be left with a large war chest on deadline day.
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Everything Jose has done so far has pointed to this not happening, I don't think he's in the mood to feck about so reckon this will be sorted soon or we'll move on

I'd like Pogba back and don't care about the fee as long as he wants to be at Utd, if he doesn't then feck him and we'll get someone else or 2 players for the same money, there are options out there that we could make work, Kante (albeit a different player but could shore up behind Hererra and Schneiderlin) or Gomes/Neves
 
I'm still trying to understand the argument that Pogba is worth £100m in today's market because of Ighalo/Deeney/Stones prices thrown around.

Does this mean that if we tendered Herrera to the open market, we'd fetch £30m for him? Does it mean we'd get £25m for Blind? Or is it simply the case that the two clubs behind such bids shouldn't be a generalisation of the market.
 
Judas said:
Pogba hasn't openly come out and said he wants to leave, and I doubt he will, just like Mkhitaryan didn't. He's doing all his talking through his agent.
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He rejected a contract, he didn't really need to say anything.

Look, we have seen off Real, and I am confident we will see of Juve, BUT they are still have a huge say in this. Many of discarded them as an option, but they win leagues, compete in the Champs League etc.
 
Striker10 said:
Good point. We've not heard anything. From his agent, from Juventus or from United. I'm not sure Juventus would have the cheek to complain about another clubs ethics - and they've probably do it too. So I think the twitter world (etc) suits them as you get bits of fact and a whole lot of fiction. It's too murky a world to cause anyone any real problems.
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Exactly.

One just has to remember who United acted towards Real Madrid when they they were trying to get Ronaldo.
 
Fully Fledged said:
Looking for an improved contract?
This needs to be done soon or walk away. We can't be left with a large war chest on deadline day.
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Everybody is forgetting Raoila's apparent "huge cut" of the deal too. If they renew, he surely will not pocket anywhere near what we are offering.

If Pogba want's to stay at Juve for another 5 years then fine, his loss. They aren't winning the CL anytime soon, he can maybe win 10 scudetto in a row if he must.

Nothing tallies up with what his father said. He finds the Italian league "boring" and want's to move to 1 of the 2 top leagues in Europe (England or Spain) why would that suddenly change?
 
Adam-Utd said:
Of course, that's the whole idea of an agent. If the player did it himself it would be illegal, but a representative can talk all he likes, it's just a chat after all.
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That does not sound plausible. The agent is the player's solicitor. If your solicitor is allowed to do deals behind the club's back you might as well do it yourself. Same thing, only he is a professional.
 
Shark said:
What are you guys blabbering on about? all that's been said is that Juventus have put a new offer on the table. That happens all of the time, of course they would offer him something to hold on to him. It doesn't mean we won't better it by a mile.
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It's my way of anti jinx. Believe. :drool:
 
SteveJ said:
Way back in 2001, Juve themselves paid over £47m for a goalkeeper. Granted that Buffon proved to be excellent value for money, but the fee doesn't half make Pogba's price seem a bit more reasonable.
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Juventus revenue for that season was 177m euros and I think Buffon was like 35m euros (I think £32m was something like that back then, not sure).

So the fee was 20% of their total revenue which is the same as Pogba for £100m to Man United with a revenue of £500m for next season
 
Acquire Me said:
This is Raiola trying to get more money than he deserve. Fergie was 100% right about him. That said, this is done if Raiola has not gone completely crazy. I dont think he has tbh.
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You should have quit while you were ahead after the Mourinho story, you're sounding like Balague now.
 
stevoc said:
Technically no, before approaching a player or his agent you need his clubs permission to speak to him.

But thats not how it works in reality, every club does it so no one kicks up a fuss these days. Every team taps a player up to gauge interest before making an official bid.

I think United reported Real to Fifa for tapping Ronaldo up but they were not punished so i doubt anyone's bothered reporting a team since.
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Yes my thoughts too.

If the Pogba rumor is real I am sure his agent has had contact with people from United. But in that case I do find it hard to believe that there would be a leak that the agreement was made.
 
VP89 said:
I'm still trying to understand the argument that Pogba is worth £100m in today's market because of Ighalo/Deeney/Stones prices thrown around.

Does this mean that if we tendered Herrera to the open market, we'd fetch £30m for him? Does it mean we'd get £25m for Blind? Or is it simply the case that the two clubs behind such bids shouldn't be a generalisation of the market.
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It's not that simple. When players leave United it's because they're surplus to requirements and will be taking a step down.

United buy players from smaller clubs who don't want to sell and players are making a step up; you can't apply the same logic to our player sales.
 
Adam-Utd said:
Everybody is forgetting Raoila's apparent "huge cut" of the deal too. If they renew, he surely will not pocket anywhere near what we are offering.

If Pogba want's to stay at Juve for another 5 years then fine, his loss. They aren't winning the CL anytime soon, he can maybe win 10 scudetto in a row if he must.

Nothing tallies up with what his father said. He finds the Italian league "boring" and want's to move to 1 of the 2 top leagues in Europe (England or Spain) why would that suddenly change?
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There are two ways to look at it. The Euros ended yesterday and this is all a bullshit game or this "happy to stay, new contract" reveal comes one day after Madrid back out.
 
Two weeks off work, I'll be following every step.

Surely Raiola wants his £20M plus.
 
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