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Paul Pogba | Undergoing Medical | Helping out the Laundry Ladies
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Or that guy "Jesus", Man City are after... He seems good
Hmm, I didn't interpret it that way at the time, but that's a really good point.
Exciting times
True that. If you are paying 94 mil for a 29 years old who couldn't cut it at real Madrid, then 120 is not that far
Lets hope last night's reports are true, i can't have another day of deal agreed and then not agreed again.
Loved that film, so utterly shit but entertaining nonetheless.
Good Morning, our God.... Exciting times ae!!!!!!!!!!!!Good morning muppets
Can we bring Uncle Paddy back too
Di Marzio is pretty conservative for timing. If everything has been agreed and sorted, i'd imagine his update today will confirm the deal. I don't think MUFC will say anything till he arrives in the UK.
I'm positively bulging....
If United want something out there, they go and brief a select few journalists. If they don't want it out there - they keep quiet. Even if the higher ups at sponsors do have an inside track (which I doubt), it'd be on a confidential basis. They certainly won't be sending emails out to their social media department 'OMG, Paul Pogba is signing for United, start following him on Twitter'
People really will create a narrative that suits their theories out of ANY piece of information - confirmation bias really hits Muppets hard during the Summer window.
Waking up and the caf has gone crazy!
Reports and tweets seem promising but they also did over the past few days/weeks. I’ll hold my horses until he’s officially unveiled though.
Never mind, the way things have gone over the last hours indicate that my feeling about the “cancelled medical” were correct. I don’t think AS made that story up but it was actually true. Since we’ve seemingly agreed personal terms with Pogba quite a while ago, the story about travelling to Miami to iron out final details seemed strange to me. For me Raiola went to Miami to schedule a medical and support his client during the organization etc. of this since he was expecting a quick agreement between the clubs. As it’s been always clear that Pogba will be on holiday until August 6th, doing the medical outside Carrington to speed things up seems a logic consequence.
However, Pogba and Raiola saw that things don’t work out as expected so Raiola flew back to Europe to iron out the last details between him and the clubs personally. The tweet of the doctor stating that he doesn’t know what this is all about means absolutely nothing to me since he must comply with the medical confidentiality and therefore would never disclose any (potential) patient names or what types of medical services he’s scheduled in his plan.
Reports and tweets seem promising but they also did over the past few days/weeks. I’ll hold my horses until he’s officially unveiled though.
Never mind, the way things have gone over the last hours indicate that my feeling about the “cancelled medical” were correct. I don’t think AS made that story up but it was actually true. Since we’ve seemingly agreed personal terms with Pogba quite a while ago, the story about travelling to Miami to iron out final details seemed strange to me. For me Raiola went to Miami to schedule a medical and support his client during the organization etc. of this since he was expecting a quick agreement between the clubs. As it’s been always clear that Pogba will be on holiday until August 6th, doing the medical outside Carrington to speed things up seems a logic consequence.
However, Pogba and Raiola saw that things don’t work out as expected so Raiola flew back to Europe to iron out the last details between him and the clubs personally. The tweet of the doctor stating that he doesn’t know what this is all about means absolutely nothing to me since he must comply with the medical confidentiality and therefore would never disclose any (potential) patient names or what types of medical services he’s scheduled in his plan.
Let's just wait till it's officially announced by the club before we get too cocky!
I bet even now, ehsanul is going crazy trying to find a tweet saying Madrid are in for him.
It's Adidas' new advertising campaign. Just like their "there will be haters". It's clever marketing, get's people talking and watching etc.
I bloody hope not, leave that kind of shit to the circus of Madrid.
Belay the anchor folks. This voyage is nearly done.
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While what your saying could be true;
WHY would they just randomly follow Pogba? it's not like he's american or has any endorsements with Chevrolet. The only thing that ties him to them is Man Utd. The fact it's just happened after all these he will join in 48 hours etc, there's no smoke without fire or coincidence.
Sports Marketing can be very strange. New and old agreements that go hand in hand. Adidas and Nike going hand in hand. Its been like this for a long time. The guy who made Nike as big as Coca Cola, he even went to work with Adidas. But make no mistake, the two companies are rivals. Its still rock & roll in marketing and I urge anyone who dont know what they want to work with to consider a career in the land of marketing.
eshunal or eshanul or captain wum whatever must be spinning in his Real Madrid themed race car bed this morning.
On the contrary, I think it is a valid source of information - it is of course not fool proof but nevertheless more reliable than 'news' by some of the journalists out there. I remember that last year also, the club photographer started following the new signings before they were officially announced. Similarly there was something about the club tailor also!
Its not deliberate action by the club like you assume but more a consequence of the preparation around announcing a new transfer. Obviously the club would keep its major sponsors in loop about new signings such that they can coordinate their marketing actions along with the club. And it doesn't get any bigger than Pogba.
fecking hell, it's a bit too cheerful in here for a morning.
To be fair fans in Italy have rioted in the past to show their displeasure at a club selling one of their best players.
Ok. If you say so.
The Sun taking their dicks out and running with this. Basically talking about the deal in the past tense over their back pages this morning.
My lob on is well and truly contained until it's official, lot's of pre ejac jizz flying round the caf right now...
steady on fellow muppets*
*Apologies for the profound effect Eshanul has had on me.
steady on fellow muppets*
*Apologies for the profound effect Eshanul has had on me.
Brilliant news
Any word on any transfers out?
This is all looking weirdly positive, I've never been involved in a saga like this before, it's actually almost a let down thinking I'm not going to feel that crushing defeat that only failure can bring.
Any bets on what type of development is going to cause meltdown next? Maybe he's spotted at the church of Ronaldo?
Any bets on what type of development is going to cause meltdown next? Maybe he's spotted at the church of Ronaldo?
The article starts with;
Meanwhile, Zidane still hopes to have Pogba to Real. At least that's what he says. "Until August 31 it can happen" - says Zizou according to Unitidi. Everyone likes Pogba, a great player and when you are Real you always want the best. But today he is not of Madrid, he is of Juventus. Difficult to think that Real can beat the Special One to the Frenchman.
To make things perfect after Barca announcing Gomes and United announcing Pogba for Real to announce the signing of Sissoko...
Honestly, I would have been pissed if I were pogba (regarding his first move to Juve), in a 20/20 hindsight he is that good to demand a starting place, or at the very least some game time ahead of Park/Rafael/Giggs in the midfield. He starts immidiately upon joining JUVE iirc, so it's not like he's not ready.
You can make a case if he's just another Cleverly, but a guy with his talent getting overlooked....
You can make a case if he's just another Cleverly, but a guy with his talent getting overlooked....
Because the social media rep was browsing on twitter and saw a flood of reports about Pogba to United and decided to follow him for the craic.
It's a far more likely scenario than the other faniciful theories floating around. Anyway this is the last I'm going to say on it, I don't think it deserves further discussion.
Yeah, we can't have that can we? And don't worry, someone will be in shortly to Madrid us all.
We wont hear from United until he is in the UK, has taken pics etc. We barely ever announce deals without the player being at Carrington already.
Mum is that you?!