Today smells like August the Pog, 2016.
Paul Pogba | Undergoing Medical | Helping out the Laundry Ladies
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If Pogba is going to sign, he will do it on a day from this month.
Only Augero is world class on that list and the other 3 have big question marks on them. KDB would have been a better example. But we have DDG our one world class player from last season then Shaw Martial are top drawer. I wouldn't swap Smalling for Kompany nowadays either. We also have our new signings one of which imo is still world class in Zlatan.
Is today the day 
Still guessing Friday is when it gets announced.
Still guessing Friday is when it gets announced.
The more this drags, the less confident I am of this deal actually happening.
Jose's comments last night also were not very promising.
Jose's comments last night also were not very promising.
Feck off Pogba
He's always said that though.
He won't talk about him since he's still officially a Juventus player.
I understand that but at this point I was hoping for something more concrete from him like "I won't go into names but we are confident of signing our target."
Surely you can say this much if the transfer fee is already agreed with Juve, as reported by DiMarzio, Castles, SSN, Telegraph, etc.
Wait? What? That was me. Who are discussing it, a Juve forum? Fecks sake
Yeah, someone quoted your post and they were discussing how thick the people on redcafe are.
Crazy stuff You don't want him?
Even if I did, there is nothing worse than a dragged out transfer saga.
Better to be careful and actually wait until he signs. He seemed confident to me. This is no ordinary deal and there are still dangers. We must be patient a little while longer and as many posters have said, let's wait til he gets home before he comes home.
I dunno I trod on a plug once.
It's still over a week until the league starts.
Chelsea have signed nearly nobody
Arsenal have 1 player
Liverpool have some shite
City have a couple but Jesus isn't coming until December (fan of christmas?) and they have failed to get their 2 primary CB targets
Spurs improved the squad but nothing to fear
We are at least on par, possibly ahead of everyone else this window, and are about to go massively ahead with Pogba, whether that's this week or next
This is actually the most chilled saga for a while. Better than panicking until the 31st August.
Please explain your reasoning? What could he realistically have said that would have been promising?
Muppets seem to be showing symptoms of cabin fever, but the cabin is this thread.
Treading on Lego has got to come pretty close too.
He said "we are going to sign one more player, that is for sure". He didn't want to speak about "paul" because he's still with juve and he doesn't like it when other managers talk about his players.
Essentially Jose said we are going to get the fourth player, and he was being diplomatic by not creating a bunch of new headlines. Remember the "where there is smoke there is fire" comment he made in relation to pogba?
Pogba is jose's fourth target, he wants it to happen.
That's a word I don't think I can ever recall seeing written down before now. Heard it a million times, it just doesn't look right in textual form.
Not that I think its off like him, if it was a completely done deal he could have said something more promising. This is the man who basically confirmed Mikhi before we announced it. Although I prefer that he didn't say anything, as seeing the actual announcement would be just awesome!
The day that never comes.
It's so British it hurts.
This is the biggest transfer deal in history. The club would go spare if this massive PR opp was lost due to Jose announcing it. Said as much as possible IMO
Chelsea have signed Batshuayi and Kante. Hardly nobody.
City have spent £100m already!
You might be right. But its frustrating that the deal doesn't seem to have made much progress even though its likely mostly done. Wish all the parties involved put in a bit of effort to just give us muppets a closure.
*nearly* nobody, I said. Kante is good, but Batshuayi very raw, nothing to be afraid of yet.
Gundogan is a fat crock. Sane is a talent but a young player coming from the Bundesliga isn't a cert. Jesus isn't signing for them yet. Nolito is shit. As I said, they wanted to go big on Laporte and Stones but have failed with both. Stones and Sane are definitely sagas, one of them only JUST signed.
Point is, we've got 3 key targets in and Pogba is only days away. The idea we're drastically behind everyone else and embroiled in some horrid saga that's ruining all of our plans is just silly.
There must be 1,000+ posts in here saying "I'm bored of this now" or words to that effect.
Stop reading the cnuting thread then you dumb fecks.
Stop reading the cnuting thread then you dumb fecks.
Agreed it's frustrating, but all indications are that the deal is in place. Don't understand the hysteria from some about his holiday, clearly he needs that as he's been constantly playing for the past year.
The club have generally always erred on the side of only announcing deals when they are 100% complete. I mean, it took a week after Mikhi was announced by his club!
I think Jose seemed happy that matters are coming to a conclusion.
"i'm bored of this" and "if pogba doesn't sign by 2pm X day in august, it's not happening".
I seriously don't understand either comment. It's like the club has to undertake business within a certain prism of time....that is artificially constructed by a fan typing on a forum
Well yeah but if 2 players is nearly nobody then a lot of teams sign nearly nobody each season.
This is done, the silence on juve/united/jose/pogba/raiola/madrid makes it a done deal.
If pogba is not signing united/madrid/raiola will probably be inclined to mouth off something anything.
If pogba is not signing united/madrid/raiola will probably be inclined to mouth off something anything.
I'm probably reading too much into it but do managers (or anyone in football) every refer to players by their first names?
If Pogba ends his holiday this weekend, will he head to London instead of Turin as Juv is having a match this Sunday?
Where's Poggy at the moment?
All fair points, I guess it's just the obscene price-tag that concerns me along with the fact that I've watched him and, YT compilations apart, have I've seen nothing in real game-time for Juve or France that justifies him being comfortably in that price-bracket (but what do I know, eh?).
Add to all that the fact that if we hadn't let him go in the first place none of this would be necessary and I'm all
. Please do not get me wrong Muppet army: I voted no in the poll above but the minute we sign him I'll support him all the way!Things this saga has taught me:
1. What Raiola looks like.
2. That Raiola is a scumbag.
3. Pogba is Muslim.
4. Ed Woodward is beautiful.
5. Apparently we don't mind spending money after all.
1. What Raiola looks like.
2. That Raiola is a scumbag.
3. Pogba is Muslim.
4. Ed Woodward is beautiful.
5. Apparently we don't mind spending money after all.