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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?

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Seems like gaucho is just going by what his manager said. But in reality, Pogba walks into any team, end of story. Zidane would have loved to manage his own successor.
 
cully84 said:
funny how you're not spunking money on every player and his dog now that that cash cow has dried up.As for not needing Pogba well:lol:,pull the other one mate.
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We have Modric, Kroos, Isco, James and Kovacic competing to fill two places in our starting 11, and you say; feck that, you guys need a 23 year old serie A over hyped central midfielder to transform your midfield into what exactly, a champions league winning midfield..? :lol:

We lost out, on Krychowiak, or Kante or some other payer who can compete with casemiro for DM role, but Pogba, how do you even come to this conclusion it's beyond me.

No, it isn't actually. It's just years of frustration that completely distort your perspective. You finally have your galactico, and now that he's here (well not yet, but should be), he's everything everyone else has been crying for. Sad really...



If Madrid had the money they would be in like a shot.
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If Perez really wanted Pogba and didn't have the funds, he would just sell you James and finance the deal with your money. You should know how it works by now.
 
Ban said:
Yeah Madrid doesnt need him. :D Some salty stuff from Madrid fans here.
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They might need him, but they aren't willing to spend all that money on him considering that they have Modric and Kroos in midfield. I am sure that they would have loved to sign him if he was cheaper, but you don't spend 120m euros on a player who plays in midfield, if you already have two world class midfielders.

For example, if some top CB became available when we had Vidic and Rio, we would have liked to sign him, but not if the price was ridiculous. Some other club with the same finances however would have signed him even for a very large price if they didn't have any top CB.

However, it is good to see for once getting a player that Madrid were very interested on and have been planning for years to sign him.
 
jungledrums said:
In what world is Schweinsteiger more of a #6 than Schneiderlin?!
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In the way that he could act as a deep-lying playmaker, while Schneiderlin breaks up the play and Pogba does his magic moving into the final third. He played in the position against France if I'm not mistaken, with Kroos and Ozil ahead and he had a pretty good game apart from the penalty.
Scholsey2004 said:
In fairness neither of them we're very adventurous. I'd describe schneiderlin as a number six. Davis did most of the attacking/creative side.
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I've always thought of him as a defensive #8 if anything. Small difference, but when you compare him to someone like William Carvalho, it's more apparent.
 
vi1lain said:
But there's no point talking about what could've been.

We were rumoured to have almost gotten players like Ronaldinho, Robben, Essien, Hazard etc. Doesn't mean anything because we didn't get them. Same thing for Sanches.

Kante we simply didn't want, there weren't any substantial rumours linking us to him.

So back to your original point, who are these other players we could sign?
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You are just trying pin hole things, not last window, or the window 5 year ago, this window, we could have signed Sanches and Kante and still go onto sign Mahrez for the same money, we will pay for Pogba. Its a pretty simple contruct
 
united_99 said:
Yeah makes sense.
I couldn't care less if we are 1st or 10the on any Forbes list. What in the end is important is that we are in most seasons competing for titles.
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Yeah, I'd rather be winning than making bank as it's not my money. It's easy to brag about how much money we have but it's the glazers money nowadays so it's not really relevant.
 
ChaddyP said:
To be fair they really dont need him
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They don't but that's never stopped them before. James wasn't needed yet they still brought him in... Madristas just mad they won't have a new toy this summer and making excuses.
 
If i wanted to bang Margot robbie i would, but you know what? I just dont NEED to bang her. :wenger:
 
gaucho_10 said:
If Perez really wanted Pogba and didn't have the funds, he would just sell you James and finance the deal with your money. You should know how it works by now.
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Every reported mentions that James is on sale list providing that some club is idiotic enough to give 80m euros or so. But it seems that this time, that isn't going to happen.

I think that if Pogba cost 80m instead of 120m, you would have definitely gone for him. Looking for Gomez at Valencia quite proves that. But for that price (120m) you sign a player only if it is a big upgrade, and why he is better than Kroos, the difference isn't that big. In addition, Kroos and Modric play well together.
 
RDCR07 said:
Perhaps you should read what I wrote? You said we should spread out the cost of Pogba by buying more players. I said that is what this club has done the past three seasons. We have brought in 15 players by spreading the cost at an average of buying 5 players per season. And where has spreading the cost by buying more players got us? I never even mentioned Sanches or Kante or Mahrez or anything about how average they are. Now do you understand what I was trying to say or should I break it down even more?
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You said average players were bought, what thats got to do with Sanches, Kante or Mahrez?
 
Revan said:
They might need him, but they aren't willing to spend all that money on him considering that they have Modric and Kroos in midfield. I am sure that they would have loved to sign him if he was cheaper, but you don't spend 120m euros on a player who plays in midfield, if you already have two world class midfielders.

For example, if some top CB became available when we had Vidic and Rio, we would have liked to sign him, but not if the price was ridiculous. Some other club with the same finances however would have signed him even for a very large price if they didn't have any top CB.

However, it is good to see for once getting a player that Madrid were very interested on and have been planning for years to sign him.
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Last sentence is the key.
 
ChaddyP said:
THIS!!

grinds my gears how everyone fawns over madrid like they get things done all the time when they fecked up signing the best GK in the world by squabbling over a few million quid. They dont always get their man and every transfer window we are flexing our muscles and showing them who is boss. Its like a rocky movie where we were getting pulverized only to get a pep talk in the 8th round and we are starting to punch back!
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Unfortunately though they're the ones sitting with 2 extra champions league trophies whereas we've struggled to even qualify for it recently.
 
Stannerz said:
In the way that he could act as a deep-lying playmaker, while Schneiderlin breaks up the play and Pogba does his magic moving into the final third. He played in the position against France if I'm not mistaken, with Kroos and Ozil ahead and he had a pretty good game apart from the penalty.

I've always thought of him as a defensive #8 if anything. Small difference, but when you compare him to someone like William Carvalho, it's more apparent.
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Im not convinced teams at the top end of a league nead a holding midfielder as defensive as carvalho or wanyama. We've never used a player like that. Jose might disagree mind.
 
Real madrid do not buy players they need, they buy shiny new toys. This is one toy they wanted but was too pricy for them hence the "we dont really need him" line comes out. They dint need bekham but needed makelele, they dint needdi maria, they dint need jamez, they dint need to sack ancelotti or mourinho.
 
So, this Pogba lad. Any good?

I guess he could be one for the future, still being young. Odds of him being loaned to Peterborough for a year or two?

Probably better in the U21's to start with I guess, give him a few cup games.
 
Maradona10 said:
Real madrid do not buy players they need, they buy shiny new toys. This is one toy they wanted but was too pricy for them hence the "we dont really need him" line comes out. They dint need bekham but needed makelele, they dint needdi maria, they dint need jamez, they dint need to sack ancelotti or mourinho.
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This.
 
starman said:
You are just trying pin hole things, not last window, or the window 5 year ago, this window, we could have signed Sanches and Kante and still go onto sign Mahrez for the same money, we will pay for Pogba. Its a pretty simple contruct
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Sanches signed for Bayern Munich in May, with our old manager. And everything seemed to suggest the main reason behind this was he chose Bayern over us, not much we can do that about. After which the usual PR speech came out saying we didn't really want him. So mentioning him is pointless.

Kante has signed for Chelsea, and in the weeks leading up to this, there has been no substantial claims that we were even after him. So mentioning him is pointless.

Talking about Mahrez is also pointless because he doesn't play the same position.

You haven't actually pointed out players who are currently available and play in Pogba's position. That's what i'm trying to target here.
 
acrebo said:
So, this Pogba lad. Any good?

I guess he could be one for the future, still being young. Odds of him being loaned to Peterborough for a year or two?

Probably better in the U21's to start with I guess, give him a few cup games.
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substitute appearance in EL group stage after we have already wrapped up first place in the group
 
Maradona10 said:
Real madrid do not buy players they need, they buy shiny new toys. This is one toy they wanted but was too pricy for them hence the "we dont really need him" line comes out. They dint need bekham but needed makelele, they dint needdi maria, they dint need jamez, they dint need to sack ancelotti or mourinho.
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I read something about him not filling their profile for a big signing. Basically he doesn't look like a boy band member. It's all about marketing.
 
Pogba is best suited to having a free role in central midfield in which he can contribute where he's best placed, the attacking third.
 
gaucho_10 said:
If Perez really wanted Pogba and didn't have the funds, he would just sell you James and finance the deal with your money. You should know how it works by now.
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:lol: Yeah and we will just buy James and finance Real Madrid when we want Pogba.
 
Fortitude said:
Is that all?
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You say it as if we'd walk the league.

In my opinion 100m+ should only be reserved for players who will guarantee you a title immediately. My problem with his price tag is that, I don't think he's that player.
 
Hoping we can wrap up this deal tonight so we can move on to other things.

Anyone got any good links to YouTube clips of Pogba?
 
Scholsey2004 said:
Im not convinced teams at the top end of a league nead a holding midfielder as defensive as carvalho or wanyama. We've never used a player like that. Jose might disagree mind.
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To each his own I suppose, though I definitely wouldn't say BFS is as defensive as either of those two anyway. Penultimate post of the day for me, so I'll have to leave it there sorry. Need to use these responsibly :wenger:.

More on topic, if talks were held yesterday and we had our 'PR bid' rejected, would I be correct in expecting us to make our £100m by Saturday at the latest?
 
If Perez really wanted Pogba and didn't have the funds, he would just sell you James and finance the deal with your money. You should know how it works by now.[/QUOTE]

That sounds so bitter! Think you need to realise the Spanish sides are struggling to compete financially with the English teams. You think Real are out this because he cost £20-30m over the odds? No it's because they can't compete now watch the worlds top talent flock to the premiership over the next few years! Money talks and right now it's singing the opera in England!!
 
Only another 44 pages and we can beat the Berbatov thread. On to the Vidal saga next, 207 more pages to beat that.
 
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