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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?


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Starting to think the steam has gone out of this transfer and it might be time for Jose and Ed to move on to our next targets before the season gets much closer.
Don't fret, mate - there's probably secret stuff going on behind the scenes, false moves and faux gestures; everything's a smokescreen, posturing, bluffing by double agents with hidden agendas. Or something.
 
Starting to think the steam has gone out of this transfer and it might be time for Jose and Ed to move on to our next targets before the season gets much closer.
or maybe they are keeping things tight and quiet so therefore none of the ITKs have a clue as to the developments and have stopped making shit up.
 
Starting to think the steam has gone out of this transfer and it might be time for Jose and Ed to move on to our next targets before the season gets much closer.
When Real Madrid signed Bale it lasted for most of the summer and went quiet for weeks before they eventually announced it. This will be a world record transfer, it will take time to cross the t's and dot the i's and get everything finalised, if indeed it does happen. No news isn't necessarily bad news.
 
Here's my take about all this.

Juventus are the most ruthless team I've ever seen. So on that regard I have absolutely no doubt about them showing Pogba the door if the price is right. However they are currently the richest club in Italy, they own their stadium and they have done very well in the past 5 years. Therefore there are not a selling club.

The Morata deal has little impact on their dealings. Morata was bought by Juventus for 20m euros. Real made it obvious that they wanted a buy out clause for 30m which I believe placed the player in a straight jacket in terms of demanding great salary. He's hardly a prolific scorer either although he will have to be replaced.

Juventus big fish in contention are Bonucci and Pogba. Some even say that the former is even more important then the other. TPogba is wanted by United who seem ready to offer 100m for him. Bonucci is wanted by City for around 43m. Arsenal wanted Rugani but they were shown the middle finger quite early.

If Juventus had to choose between selling Bonucci or Pogba then they will surely choose selling the former. Bonucci is older, 43m for a 29 year old defender is crazy and Juve being Juve had already covered their arse with young talent (Rugani) and the experienced head (Benatia).

I strongly believe that if we reach the fee that they want (which I think we did or we're pretty close at it) then Pogba will be one step away from Turin. There's two reasons to that. First of all because Juventus are ruthless. If anyone is interested in some history then they should check how Juve treated the likes of Baggio, Ravanelli and Vialli who were much bigger names then Pogba was. Secondly because Juventus know not to clash swords with Mino. The guy had already trashed them with Ibra and wouldn't mind doing it again. However here's the catch. Pogba will have to come forward and state that he wants to leave. Juventus wouldn't want to risk the fans backlash by offloading both Bonucci (a fans favourite) and Pogba in the same transfer window especially at a time when the Milanese clubs are being both by rich owners who had promised to spend ridiculous amount of money on them. They would do it just the same (hence they have made a move to a big name signing ie Higuain) but they prefer not to. It would be more acceptable for Juventus fans if Pogba is seen as a money grabber cnut who moved to a lesser club because of the ££££ then having Juve being portrayed as the ruthless club who would throw anyone under the bus for the right price. Mino on the other hand will want to milk this to the end. Hence why this 'Ah he can stay at Juventus' BS, while Pogba may genuinely want to move to Real because he wants to work with Zidane and he would want to avoid past problems (I promised not to delve into that in this thread and I will keep my promises). If Real are willing to offer as much as we do then he will move there.


This is bollocks.

Bonuccii is more important than Pogba. Benatia is future replacement for Barzagli. and Rugani is still not good enough as BBC.
 
Don't fret, mate - there's probably secret stuff going on behind the scenes, false moves and faux gestures; everything's a smokescreen, posturing, bluffing by double agents with hidden agendas. Or something.

Not fretting at all, mainly for all the things you mention and more. Perhaps a bit of us appearing to move on to other targets might just be the grease this transfer needs.
 
When Real Madrid signed Bale it lasted for most of the summer and went quiet for weeks before they eventually announced it. This will be a world record transfer, it will take time to cross the t's and dot the i's and get everything finalised, if indeed it does happen. No news isn't necessarily bad news.
Kind of curious why it would take more time to cross the t's and dot the i's than a normal transfer for say....30m?
 
Juve is in no rush to announce anything as they probably have a few targets in the transfer market that they would like to complete without having other clubs knowing that they got shitloads of money on their hands. And Pogba is still on vacation so it's no rush from our side either. Still believe this is more or less done.
 
Kind of curious why it would take more time to cross the t's and dot the i's of a normal transfer for say....30m?
Naming rights, marketing, amount of instalments, add-ons. God knows, but I imagine there's a shit load of paperwork involved in a deal of this magnitude.
 
Naming rights, marketing, amount of instalments, add-ons. God knows, but I imagine there's a shit load of paperwork involved in a deal of this magnitude.
I'm talking about agreeing with Juve here, not the player. Reason being there have already been reports that we have agreed with the player.
 
FYI, i originally got the currencies wrong. I thought @Summit said 13m Euros, he said pounds. As of right now, the original Di Marzio claim was 13m Euro net of taxes.

 
FYI, i originally got the currencies wrong. I thought @Summit said 13m Euros, he said pounds. As of right now, the original Di Marzio claim was 13m Euro net of taxes.


Never understand why this is reported in Euros, considering we would have offered him £££.
 
I'm talking about agreeing with Juve here, not the player. Reason being there have already been reports that we have agreed with the player.
Pretty sure he was talking about the Juve, but an agreement in principle with the player isn't the end of it, same as an agreement in principle with a morgage isn't final. Still alot of paperwork to be done.
 
First off there is absolutely zero hatred in that post. It is one of the most level headed and sensible replies in this thread. But it is annoyng when people that come on here and proclaim because the deal isn't done in the time they want it to be that it means the deal isn't happening. Now if someone came in here and said "I think Pogba will end up staying" that's one thing but the "This is dragging. If the deal was gonna happen it would have happened by now. He isn't coming" posts are just bang out of order and @Raoul is completely within his right to respond to them and tell them that how they came to their conclusion of why this deal won't happen is a fallacy.

Just because the Paul Pogba transfer thread has close to 350 pages and the tweets have slowed down isn't an indication of anything.
First off just because you believe a post is bang out of order doesn't make it so. If people think it's dragging on then that's fine who cares that's how they feel and it's understandable they feel that way as concrete rumours began a little while ago now.

Maybe hatrid was the wrong word
 
So we're prepared to pay a world record fee but the notion that we would pay wages that high is bollocks?

I thought all wages discussed in England were after tax? pretty sure Rooney's 300k is after tax.

€120m is £100m in the uk, no chance we would pay that much for his transfer fee. Insane.

Not a chance.

:rolleyes: Sorry but are you two completely mental? What do you think our wages to turnover ratio would look like if wages were listed as after tax? If we had players like Young, Fellaini and many others on ~£100k per week after tax? :wenger: Wise up.


Also, I have a question: someone said that Acquire Me has been right about three things before. What things were those?
 
If people don't know anything then they don't know anything. Its not rocket science.
I don't really understand this response but my point is people are getting impatient because they are emotionally invested in this transfer and they shouldn't be told not to post on this thread which is what your responses are inferring imo
 
Gonna have to settle for third. We'll wrap this up by next Friday.

Actually, 4th. Just realised Thiago got 15,735 - didn't see it before, as it got moved to the classics.

Here's the current top 10 for future reference:

Vidal 2014 25,857
Berbatov 2008 19,384
Thiago* 2013 15,735
Sneijder 2011 13,667
Pogba 2016 13,123
Fabregas 2013 11,971
Di Maria* 2014 11,038
Herrera 2014 9,714
Hazard 2012 8,851
Ibahimovic 2016 8,340

*Classics

Berba was ahead of his time, eh?
 
Yep, complete and utter lunacy.

Looks like the Broncos will sign Von Miller today. 6 years $114 million - $70 million guaranteed. The $70 million should be paid out over 3 years so take that and it is $65727 a DAY or $460k a week. American dollars so slightly less than the numbers thrown around, but lunacy is going on. Sure would be nice to sign Pogba today, would be a day to remember for me!
 
Pretty sure he was talking about the Juve, but an agreement in principle with the player isn't the end of it, same as an agreement in principle with a morgage isn't final. Still alot of paperwork to be done.
Who was? The tweet referred to United agreeing 13m Euros. I asked why it was in Euro's and not pounds, considering that is the currency we would be paying him in should he come?
 
I don't really understand this response but my point is people are getting impatient because they are emotionally invested in this transfer and they shouldn't be told not to post on this thread which is what your responses are inferring imo

Yes we all know they are emotionally vested. The point is they shouldn't be.
 
Let's be honest, Juve's budget is usually about thirty quid and a packet of crisps, for which they somehow usually sign at least two top players.

You can produce all the fancy infographics in the world, but the only way they're spending 180m this summer is by selling Pogba. Twice.

Juve showing financial 'muscle', is like watching Danny Devito doing curls.
 
Yep. Looks like Juve are doing a Spurs.... spunking dosh knowing a world record fee will be dropping in the near future.
 
Who was? The tweet referred to United agreeing 13m Euros. I asked why it was in Euro's and not pounds, considering that is the currency we would be paying him in should he come?
AndyJ1985 said:
Naming rights, marketing, amount of instalments, add-ons. God knows, but I imagine there's a shit load of paperwork involved in a deal of this magnitude.
 
Looks like the Broncos will sign Von Miller today. 6 years $114 million - $70 million guaranteed. The $70 million should be paid out over 3 years so take that and it is $65727 a DAY or $460k a week. American dollars so slightly less than the numbers thrown around, but lunacy is going on. Sure would be nice to sign Pogba today, would be a day to remember for me!
NFL is a completely different ball game.

You see what I did there?! :smirk:
 
This is bollocks.

Bonuccii is more important than Pogba. Benatia is future replacement for Barzagli. and Rugani is still not good enough as BBC.

I never said that Pogba is more important then Bonucci (one i). All I am saying is that it makes more sense selling him for 43m rather then Pogba for lets say 60-70m. The former is 29 years old and Juventus got their defence covered both in terms of experience (Barzagli, Benatia, Chiellini and Evra) and youths (Romagna and Rugani). Pogba is still young, he courted by United and if he has another great season with Juventus than a bidding war with Real may occur.
 
Not really, because it's hardly "dragging on" is it? it's been something like 2 weeks, and in that space he's been playing a European competition and on holiday. For all we know it could already be agreed but not announced? people just need to learn to be patient. We will know soon enough.
Its probably Mourinho when he talked about getting this done early and this would NOT be a last minute end of the transfer window deal. Its made people impatient to be fair.
I also did think that we would of heard something this week.
 
AndyJ1985 said:
Naming rights, marketing, amount of instalments, add-ons. God knows, but I imagine there's a shit load of paperwork involved in a deal of this magnitude.
Sorry I see now what you were getting at. But again every transfer has these issues, so no different imo just because it is for much more money.
 
Yes we all know they are emotionally vested. The point is they shouldn't be.
Huh? Haha they shouldn't be emotionally invested in a player that will hugely improve the team they obviously love? Fair enough lad
 
This is taking far too long and is too big a story for us to pull this off. It's another one of those transfer sagas that'll end in tears for those emotionally invested.