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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?

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devilish said:
I think the club owes the fans some update on this deal which is bordering to the ridiculous. How slow can we be?
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Your tagline :lol:
SammyUnited_83 said:
I kind of get the Rooney testimonial thing, but if we don't hear anything by Friday I would be worried.

And no, I couldn't give a feck if he is on holiday, we should be getting this done.
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friday might not be the day either with the Olympics kicking off (if we go by the 'want pogba to have all the limelight' theory). With the testimonial being today I can see why some journos and La Stampa have guessed thursday.
 
JohnnyKills said:
I have to confess I don't watch a lot of European football, although I'd have been delighted to sign Kante (for a third of the price) and Matic would be a great buy as well.

I'm not saying Pogba's a bad player, that's clearly not the case. I just think that with a budget of £100m there must be some alternatives.
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I don't mean to sound like a dick, but how much of Pogba have you actually seen? He's nothing like Kante, and he's certainly not even anything similar to Matic. Those two are different players in a different part of the pitch doing a totally different job. You're in for a big surprise of what Pogba is about when he joins.
 
Listen, he's not coming, right?!?!?!?!!!!

Here, have a sword

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Why are people worried about Pogba and his preseason and the fact his holiday is long. Like Ibrahimovic, Pogba is a piece of Mourinhio's team that will just click, he won't need integration like mikhitarian, Bailey or even the little adjusting Ibrahimovic may require as he already knows the premiership and manchester. He already was doing the the type of attacking directness that Mourinho is teaching us right now, the un-Van Gaal, as some put it, at Juventus and for France.

So guys take chill pill, and sit tight
 
JohnnyKills said:
Yeah all fair points, but we've tried to sign him and he doesn't seem that bothered, otherwise he'd have flown home already. Why not move on?
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I don't prescribe with that theory, his agent visited him on holiday, obviously some talks have gone on.
He's still a Juventus player, and Juventus have granted him extra time for holiday, he's entitled to take that.

Everything else is just impatience.
 
909 pages.. you lot are mental.

I want this to happen as much as anyone and I'm beyond confident that it will once his holiday is over, but feck me, this thread will break 1000 pages before then.

Top top player, who'll be back where he belongs soon enough.
 
every time I see the thread title, it plays the tune of "haven't met you yet" by Michael buble in my head.

"just haven't signed you yet"

go on try it
 
JohnnyKills said:
Yeah all fair points, but we've tried to sign him and he doesn't seem that bothered, otherwise he'd have flown home already. Why not move on?
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Exactly. He has been on holiday for nearly 3 weeks now, cutting that short by a day or 2 when we are spending £100mil should be a given.

He obviously won't play in the Charity Shield, but surely you would want him in and around the squad, possibly taking part in some light training over the weekend. Getting ready for a full week before the season starts.

This week is already flying by, and still no official word, I do genuinely expect we should hear something by Friday.
 
WPMUFC said:
no.



two kids from a Youtube startup that follows italian football found pogba in NYC. They asked him to sign a ball, asked him about staying and about winning CL, he just said yes to everything they said when signing the ball. HE was just being diplomatic and didn't want to hang around. Even one of the presenters said he believe pogba was just being diplomatic.
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So 2 kids went to get their balls signed. Got themselves, the biggest muppet news of the day. Bollocks!!!
 
I remember the Spanish media cornering Neymar on his travels and asked him if he was interested in a move to City.
He answered the very same way just to get out of there. A few weeks later he admitted he hates City more than he hates Madrid.
So yeah....
 
Kevin said:
Your tagline :lol:

friday might not be the day either with the Olympics kicking off (if we go by the 'want pogba to have all the limelight' theory). With the testimonial being today I can see why some journos and La Stampa have guessed thursday.
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But there is always going to be something!

We should be more worried about getting him in and around the squad rather than the exposure. Needs to be done by Friday for my money.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I had a go at @Randall Flagg for saying something similar but am coming round to the idea he could maybe do a bit more to make this happen. Or at the very least, do a bit more to make sure he's ready for a season that starts much sooner than Serie A.
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There are a few alarm bells over the whole thing

But Im hoping it wont matter once he knuckles down.

But I wouldnt be shocked if its another Di Maria situation, and after one year he could be on the move again
 
cyberman said:
I remember the Spanish media cornering Neymar on his travels and asked him if he was interested in a move to City.
He answered the very same way just to get out of there. A few weeks later he admitted he hates City more than he hates Madrid.
So yeah....
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Why would a lad from Brazil hate City?
 
I think the main issue for the impatient one's (like me) is that the journo's with actual links to the deal (Di Marzio et al) released stuff such a long time ago. So much so that it is not even deemed newsworthy by a number of media outlets at the moment. Yet there's still no official announcement.

Agreed that all the evidence points to him ending up in red come the start of the season but some (again like me) can't rest easy until it's all over/signed/announced. Hence why now so many people are saying this whole thing has gotten so tedious and boring. We're talking about the same things over and over again.
 
Red Bug said:
I can't watch video, does he actually say "I am staying at Juve" in a convincing tone?
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No, one of the guys says to him "Paul are you going to stay" and he says "yeah, yeah" then the other guy says somethng like "Are you going to win the CL" and Pogba says "Yeah" again.

Sounds to me like he was just trying to get them out the way without being too rude to them. He could see they're Juventus fans, he's hardly going to say he's leaving.
 
JohnnyKills said:
I have to confess I don't watch a lot of European football, although I'd have been delighted to sign Kante (for a third of the price) and Matic would be a great buy as well.

I'm not saying Pogba's a bad player, that's clearly not the case. I just think that with a budget of £100m there must be some alternatives.
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The idea that we can buy a different player for the amount we will (hopefully) pay for Pogba came up about 20 times. Each time people give examples of totally different players to Pogba.
 
Paul Pogba has his head down, focused on the ball that is autographing, or maybe thinking about who knows what. You just got out of a car, probably after shopping in New York, where is on vacation, and one fan stops him asking, among other things, if they remain at Juve and his response was terse: "Yeah." Yes, in English, he is not particularly persuaded to tell the truth. Paul gives the impression of not listening too closely the fans.
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THE SITUATION - The video, released by Italian Football TV, has already been around the world, but the reality is that it does not change too much the state of things: there is no evidence that Pogba has changed his mind, or Juve, that over 100 million of its sale has them already largely reinvested paying the buy-out clause for Gonzalo Higuain. At the end of the holidays it is very likely that Pogba face real medical examinations, but not at Vinovo. Mourinho awaits him at Manchester United.
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http://www.gazzetta.it/Calciomercat...zza-tutti-o-soltanto-bluff-160578311649.shtml

Seriously, feck the english press. Even GdS doesn't buy into this BULLSHIT.
 
Kevin said:
Why would a lad from Brazil hate City?
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For what they represent I suppose.
He was asked if he would like City to win the CL since Barca were eliminated and said he would rather Madrid won it over City.
From a Barca player no less.
 
Judas said:
I don't mean to sound like a dick, but how much of Pogba have you actually seen? He's nothing like Kante, and he's certainly not even anything similar to Matic. Those two are different players in a different part of the pitch doing a totally different job. You're in for a big surprise of what Pogba is about when he joins.
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I'm expecting him to be like Lee Carsley mate. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.
 
Everyone questioning why he is still on holiday, it's the same for every France player from what I can tell. Giroud, Griezmann, Lloris etc. have yet to figure in preseason. There's a reason why every club thinks these players need the same amount of rest. Him cutting his holiday short would accomplish nothing.
 
Jose's first presser:
We will get the 4th before the 31st August, then we shall breath.....

As much as I'm bored with this.... I think then he knew it would take time....
 
Mourinho said he wanted quick transfers and now we've had probably the longest transfer saga the world has ever seen. Why can't United ever just get deals done with minimal fuss? The amount of time it's taking coupled with the fact that he's unlikely to be fit for the first portion of the season has killed all the excitement for me.
I hope there is some sort of conclusion soon because it's so boring.
 
kps88 said:
Everyone questioning why he is still on holiday, it's the same for every France player from what I can tell. Giroud, Griezmann, Lloris etc. have yet to figure in preseason. There's a reason why every club thinks these players need the same amount of rest. Him cutting his holiday short would accomplish nothing.
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He is supposedly due back in training on the 7th, there is no reason for him not to fly to Manchester and get all this done by Friday 5th.

Surely he would want time to settle, be around the squad for the Charity Shield, the longer this goes on silent the more it starts to ring alarm bells.
 
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