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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?

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LouisDanGaal said:
Kroos isn't an AM and pogba might get more hype but kroos is the better player, if either was going to get the ballon d or surely it would be the better player
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Never really the better player who wins it. Its the person whose face fits. Pogba's more qualified to win the Ballon D'or than Kroos. He has an agent and (soon) a club manager who will shout his name to the roof tops and put him in the hunt for individual awards, which Kroos doesnt have. Kroos is probably the better player, but he's a means to an end in the Real team. Bale and Ronaldo are the stars. He's the Paul Scholes to the Beckhams and the Michael Owens.

Thing with Kroos is, the people who are saying Pogba's fee is a lot based on marketing are spot on. Pogba is Ghostbusters Bluray for 20 quid. Its still a great film as it always was, but you're paying the extra £10 for the fancy cover and the extras and that scene in widescreen where you seen Sigorney Weavers tits. You dont pay £100m just for a great footballer. You pay for the brand.
 
Oneunited26 said:
Difference between Jose and VG, one will play a more efficient kind of football with common sense practices, the other was so obsessed with a philosophy playing players out of position, demanding no one to take chances
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VG was pretty unbearable for his risk adverse football. But at least he didn't do what John Gregory did as Wycombe manager, fining players for shooting outside the box!
 
peridigm said:
Since before he signed that fat contract to be precise.
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Again this is disingenuous. The last time we as a team had a good season, in 2013-2014, Rooney had a good season. The whole team has been dodgy since and there are so many other players I could name who have been so much worse than Rooney.
 
sincher said:
Again this is disingenuous. The last time we as a team had a good season, in 2013-2014, Rooney had a good season. The whole team has been dodgy since and there are so many other players I could name who have been so much worse than Rooney.
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You thought the 13-14 campaign was a good year? Or do you mean the year before in Fergie's last when SAF gave up on Rooney?
 
Trigg said:
I feel Herrera is just better with the ball at his feet than Schneiderlin. Same principle yeah, an energetic midfielder who can get up and down. Schweinsteiger as a alternative to Carrick too if he stays (I hope he does).
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I agree with your post (all of it). Except I don't think Herrera is great defender whereas Morgan is better
 
Re Rooney yeah meant the year before, though his stats were not bad in the season under Moyes. Certainly unfair to say he has been poor since 2012. We are off topic though.
 
sincher said:
Re Rooney yeah meant the year before, though his stats were not bad in the season under Moyes. Certainly unfair to say he has been poor since 2012. We are off topic though.
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To be fair, probably 90% of the thread is off topic :p
 
With him and Ibra in the squad, we finally have a few alpha characters. We used to be made of them. The only one that comes to mind from our current crop is Schweini, maybe Rooney but even then, not in the way he used to be. We used to have Rio, Vida, Nev, Ronaldo, Rooney, and Tevez all in one line up. Finally we can get some of that mentality back. Hopefully.
 
rotherham_red said:
No. Kroos and Verratti are in a league of their own as far as young midfielders are concerned. I am looking forward to seeing what Pogba can do but let's not inflate his achievements.
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In my opinion Kroos would really struggle in the premier league. Pogba is such a unique player compared to both verratti and Kroos and frankly I think he's proven far more than both of them that he's the best player of the bunch. I understand that some people love players that set the tempo but pogbas power, drive and flair is better and he's the player that out of the 3 is the most suited to the premier league.
 
SwansonsTache said:
He is used to playing in a midfield 3, or effectively a 5 with Juventus 3-5-2 though. And that is in a league with less pressing and intensity as opposed to the PL.

He didn't exactly convince in a midfield 2 for France during the EC.

I think that the best way to get the most out of Pogba is a midfield 3, and hopefully we will switch to a 4-3-3. Perhaps Pogba, Zlatan, Martial and Rashfords presence in this United side is finally enough to get rid of Rooney as a guaranteed starter and poster boy. Surely Zlatan and Pogba is already more marketable, and Martial and Rashford will become more marketable in a season or two.
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Yeah, but a 433 would still put pogba in the box to box role, no? The advanced midfielder would be Rooney as a 10. If he's dropped the replacement in my opinion should be Mikhitaryan. He can go very quiet if cast out wide right otherwise.

Obviously another midfield purchase such as matuidi would make way for pogba being more advanced. But I doubt this will happen.
 
Sassy Colin said:
Note @sincher 's tag line guys. He clearly has too much love for Rooney.
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That is really old.

But yes United fans do seem to have gone over the top with the criticism of him. Some of it is deserved but a lot is not and he certainly seems to be a scapegoat for what has been poor management and in a sense an over-reliance on him.
 
VP89 said:
Yeah, but a 433 would still put pogba in the box to box role, no? The advanced midfielder would be Rooney as a 10. If he's dropped the replacement in my opinion should be Mikhitaryan. He can go very quiet if cast out wide right otherwise.

Obviously another midfield purchase such as matuidi would make way for pogba being more advanced. But I doubt this will happen.
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a 4-3-3 would likely include both carrick and\or schneid and fellaini, which would leave Pogba with more freedom. If you are part of a midfield two your have to be a lot more defensively aware.
 
sincher said:
That is really old.

But yes United fans do seem to have gone over the top with the criticism of him. Some of it is deserved but a lot is not and he certainly seems to be a scapegoat for what has been poor management and in a sense an over-reliance on him.
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Look, after his 1st contract dispute, I hated the cnut, but I could see how fundamental he was to our play. He made the team tick and I had to concede we were better with him than without him. SAF would have fecked him off, if he had stayed another season, but that cnut Moyes saw fit to ladle him with money.

He adds nothing to the team anymore, in fact he detracts from it now.

Maybe José can get a tune out of him, but I won't hold my breath.
 
That barber who posted Pogba to us, I started following him on snapchat, yday he was out and about with GF and had a Juve shirt on all day.

Surely being a Juve fan, he wouldn't post that Pogba was going to United without being told :drool:
 
VanGaalEra said:
That barber who posted Pogba to us, I started following him on snapchat, yday he was out and about with GF and had a Juve shirt on all day.

Surely being a Juve fan, he wouldn't post that Pogba was going to United without being told :drool:
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First class muppetry.
 
Don't want him anymore.
Paying 100 mil for a tenacious kid, who focuses on money and spinning media stories with his agent, instead of wanting to go train with the new club is not the player, we should get.
I want hungry players. Zlatan'esk.
He might be good. But for 100 million, there must be other home grown players that can play B2B somehow decent, and doesn't see himself in higher regard than the club he is going to play for.

I was happy when i heard of it. Now I'm sick of it. And I'm sick of these modern immature teenage-minded players...

Sign Bendtner for all i care. He's without contract.
 
ThomasEmil said:
Don't want him anymore.
Paying 100 mil for a tenacious kid, who focuses on money and spinning media stories with his agent, instead of wanting to go train with the new club is not the player, we should get.
I want hungry players. Zlatan'esk.
He might be good. But for 100 million, there must be other home grown players that can play B2B somehow decent, and doesn't see himself in higher regard than the club he is going to play for.

I was happy when i heard of it. Now I'm sick of it. And I'm sick of these modern immature teenage-minded players...

Sign Bendtner for all i care. He's without contract.
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Oh... ok. :confused:
 
ThomasEmil said:
But for 100 million, there must be other home grown players that can play B2B somehow decent, and doesn't see himself in higher regard than the club he is going to play for.
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Pogba isn't homegrown and you want get comparable talent for that money (or do you want Cleverley back?)
 
ThomasEmil said:
Don't want him anymore.
Paying 100 mil for a tenacious kid, who focuses on money and spinning media stories with his agent, instead of wanting to go train with the new club is not the player, we should get.
I want hungry players. Zlatan'esk.
He might be good. But for 100 million, there must be other home grown players that can play B2B somehow decent, and doesn't see himself in higher regard than the club he is going to play for.

I was happy when i heard of it. Now I'm sick of it. And I'm sick of these modern immature teenage-minded players...

Sign Bendtner for all i care. He's without contract.
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:lol: You wanted him. But not any more. Since when? This morning?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
:lol: You wanted him. But not any more. Since when? This morning?
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Nope. When the whole transfer saga began. As described, I was happy when I heard of it (it being the transfer rumour) :)
But now... I mean... 100 million for a guy banana-infused-turd hair and a dab diplomacy?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
:lol: You wanted him. But not any more. Since when? This morning?
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It seems since he had a holiday, left transfer talks to his agent and had a bit of fun at the media's expense.

He has a sense of humour and likes to have a bit of a wind up - it's something very rare in professional sport nowadays.
 
Sassy Colin said:
Look, after his 1st contract dispute, I hated the cnut, but I could see how fundamental he was to our play. He made the team tick and I had to concede we were better with him than without him. SAF would have fecked him off, if he had stayed another season, but that cnut Moyes saw fit to ladle him with money.

He adds nothing to the team anymore, in fact he detracts from it now.

Maybe José can get a tune out of him, but I won't hold my breath.
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I fully agree
 
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