Hopefully. Although even if it is the usual suspects will no doubt try to find someone way to discredit it.
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Hopefully. Although even if it is the usual suspects will no doubt try to find someone way to discredit it.
Is that next week, as in, this week?
Yes, think so.
Cool. Next week it is, then.
If it's not completed by Friday next week then I'm retiring from this thread until it happens.
RIP. Another muppet falls at the last hurdle.
Be strong muppets. Tomorrow is Pogba day!
As long as Juve confirm it this week. At the very least, the BBC say a deal is done.
Don't think United will confirm it for a while. They will try and market him like they did with Zlatan i.e. get a video of him ready doing something stupid for a big announcement. That won't happen until gone August 6th.
Don't think United will confirm it for a while. They will try and market him like they did with Zlatan i.e. get a video of him ready doing something stupid for a big announcement. That won't happen until gone August 6th.
Yeah its not like he's better than all our current midfielders
Am genuinely surprised my post about marketability provoked such a response. Wow. You guys really do love Pogba. For what it's worth i think of course he'll improve us but not to the degree to which you all think. Strange reaction guys. Particularly @StanleyCupboard and @AndyJ1985. Why did the idea that I suggested offend you both so? Amazing. You guys really do believe in this guy Pogba, I don't. No need to get abusive.
I don't understand the hate - he's been a wonderful player for us
I really hope he never gets announced and he just strolls on to the pitch for the first game of the season.
Nah... Nothing will happen until he's back off holiday
@VanGaalEra Your next post in this thread...
ForEvraRed going to mate his nephew Paul in the states to congratulate him on the move of a lifetime and tell Paul what's required to succeed at United
It is really amazing to see how this super agents ( I would call them super greedy) affect the transfer market nowadays.
they play behind the screen so they are not targeted or blamed. I heard that the agent is demanding 20 mil for this
transfer. It seems like the agent is the one that is going to play.I personally think that football body should ban agents if possible. let the players deal directly with the club.bring some common sense regulation to the free market. Otherwise there wont be any limit and it wont be long before we start buying agents instead of players.
they play behind the screen so they are not targeted or blamed. I heard that the agent is demanding 20 mil for this
transfer. It seems like the agent is the one that is going to play.I personally think that football body should ban agents if possible. let the players deal directly with the club.bring some common sense regulation to the free market. Otherwise there wont be any limit and it wont be long before we start buying agents instead of players.
ForEvraRed going to mate his nephew Paul in the states to congratulate him on the move of a lifetime and tell Paul what's required to succeed at United
Eh?
Players don't have the knowledge to do that, they would at the very least need some legal representation. However, yeah there should be some restrictions etc.
It's a bit tiring but the agent didn't ask 20m, Juventus owe Pogba and Raiola 20% of the transfer. And no the players shouldn't deal directly with the clubs, if for example the NFL teaches us something, it's that sports franchise/clubs owners are walking scumbags and won't hesitate to shaft anyone at the first opportunity.
It'll be Carrick, not Schneiderlin.
Eh?
*meet
This, I'm becoming worried he's going to miss the first few games which would piss me off. I'm going to the match against Southampton and I want to see Pogba!
There are now so many more positives to NOT signing him, I just think it would be hilarious!
This is going to hit 1,000 pages before it's formally "done"... could be a lot of anxious Muppets by then.
Bored now.
Only checking couple of times a day.
Only checking couple of times a day.
I do think he'll improve us of course. My point about the marketing is the fee involved has to involve some kind of payback, United see him as very very marketable. I'm just not convinced he's going to improve us to the extent that most on here are. It's really really bizarre the reactions on here.
Pogba really isn't all that. He's a young player with a lot to prove. Posters on here are comparing him to Messi and Ronaldo just because of the fee! It's kind of mad. The abuse I'm getting for questioning his likely impact is astounding. People seem convinced he's going to stroll into the team and transform it, he won't, he'll improve us yes but guys get real. Reign in your expectations.
Nothing will happen wirth this today, the Italians are all in Church and the English are all bloated out on the couch sleeping off last night's booze and their Sunday lunch.
Can't speak for our Italian brothers but the English assessment is pretty much spot on.
Where has he been compared to Messi and Ronaldo?
Nowhere. And to say that Pogba "isn't all that", well that's just plain wrong.
Feel the same way. We are paying double to what he is actually worth.
I find it a bit odd how people don't see that we're paying exactly what we should be expecting to pay for Paul Pogba in 2016.
Earlier on in the thread. People saying there will be a big three not just a big two. The fee creates that kind of chatter.
These same people probably think £30m buys you world class, first XI talent (with no injury or something else to artificially bring the fee down) still.
The fee doesn't surprise me. The level of expectation around Pogba blows my mind though. I just don't see him delivering against people's expectations. I do see him delivering as a 'brand asset'.
Well hopefully you'll end up being pleasantly surprised.
Yes. Hopefully I will. I've said that from the outset.
We're buying one of the best young midfielders in the world from a huge club with a rich tradition that doesn't want to sell him since he's their star man. 100M is not exaggerated at all for such a player in 2016. That's the state of the modern transfer market. Keep up.
It's the same with every transfer we ever make though, people overrate signings to the extreme, only to be disappointed. It's not unique to Pogba.
I think Pogba will match people expectations, eventually, but he won't be winning games on his own from his debut, and I see no problem with that.