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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?

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EricaNo7 said:
I'm getting fed up now. I preferred the old days when transfers came out of nowhere like Andy Cole and Cantona
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Well, you could just sit down and relax a bit. This is done. Its just not official. I am sure you will know when it is :)
 
Sarni said:
I think we are still in negotiations but due to the size of transfer and Juventus being reluctant to sell, it's getting difficult. I'd probably expect this to be done in around 2 weeks but won't be surprised at all if the transfer window passes by and Pog is still a Juve player.
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2 weeks? I think we have been in negotiations for a while, I would say within a week this will end either way, can't imagine it dragging out much longer after he flies back to Italy.
 
LouisDanGaal said:
2 weeks? I think we have been in negotiations for a while, I would say within a week this will end either way, can't imagine it dragging out much longer after he flies back to Italy.
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Yep I reckon if it gets done, it will be very close to the deadline day.
 
Every page some tiresome dullard has to announce to everyone they are bored with it all. Whose fault is that? You consume the media by constantly visiting here, following rumours on twitter, frantically refreshing the BBC, tuning into Sky Sports News, then have the audacity to moan that you're getting too much news. Just feck off and go for a walk or something. Anybody who has the sheer temerity to moan they are sick of this transfer and aren't even that fussed anymore deserves having their chin put through a wall.

Can't fecking wait for Pogba to rock up at OT :cool:
 
Sparky Rhiwabon said:
That was effectively the equivalent of BBC website back then, so if it was on there you knew it was going to happen.

Page 312 - now that was the old equivalent of Twitter!
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Was that the gossip page? I remember reading that and you'd have a little chat with your mate but both of you would have just one paragraph of information and that would be the end of it. Not 1000 journalists then jumping out to say they knew the story first kind of thing.
 
midnightmare said:
This discussion on valuation is something I just don't get. People seem to have a massively distorted view of the game thanks to Ronaldo. So, just for the sake of it, let's go slightly further back in the game. Before Ronaldo (let's forget the pesky Kaka fee), Zidane was the most expensive player in the world. He cost Real Madrid GBP 57 Mn at the age of 29. He only ever scored 10 or more league goals in a season once (for Bordeaux in 1992-93). His season-high for goals scored was 12 (across all competitions). Here's the context:

Age: 29
Resale value: 0
Real Madrid income (from Deloitte Money League) in 2000/01: 138 Mn Euros
That figure today stands at 577 Mn Euros

Before Zidane, the record-holder was Figo. He had a nearly identical scoring record to Zidane.

My point is that people have got this massively mistaken idea that clubs pay / should pay for players based on the goal-scoring prowess alone. Fact is, this view has been massively distorted by Ronaldo's (and Messi's) goal-scoring exploits. Take them aside and you'll realise that before these guys, a player who scored 20+ a season was a phenomenon. 25 in the league? That was considered a minor miracle.

When you look at Pogba, he's (at just 23) scoring as many as Zidane was scoring (for the same club) when Madrid made their move. As a % of revenues, the proposed fee is dwarfed by what Madrid paid for both Zidane and Figo.

Even for United (mentioned long time ago on this same thread), fee as % of revenue will not be the highest for Pogba (Rio and Veron will remain higher). Those above him in the table were not goalscorers either.

Hmm... just glad to have got that off my chest. Irritates me no end when rival fans start this rubbish... Maddens me when some of our lot do the same!
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Great post
 
WPMUFC said:
oh god. I can see it now, someone will ask about pogba, he will say he expects him back at training, and this thread is going to commit muppet suicide for the next 24 hours :lol::lol:
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:lol: For what it’s worth, I don’t think he’ll talk about Pogba at all, the press have probably been told not to ask anything about the transfer.
 
How many kids in the world started supporting madrid because zidane plays there, and still supports madrid long after zidane retires.

In the long run buying marquee players pays. You just dont count it in a year.
 
Sarni said:
Yep I reckon if it gets done, it will be very close to the deadline day.
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So Juventus have spent most of the Pogba money and they have given Dybala Pogba's #10 shirt, but you think Pogba is going to go back to training and playing for Juventus for the rest of the month? Don't think so.
 
I'm going by what Jose is said in the press conference yesterday that in a couple of days we will have a new midfielder! I reckon Monday/Tuesday it will be done and official
 
Right so if he's supposed to fly in today, can someone find all the flights from New York to Manchester, get some spies down to Carrington and OT to look out for helicopters, cover all the bases to fuel our muppet filled weekend
 
AndyJ1985 said:
So Juventus have spent most of the Pogba money and they have given Dybala Pogba's #10 shirt, but you think Pogba is going to go back to training and playing for Juventus for the rest of the month? Don't think so.
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That isn't confirmed yet. In fact, do we even know whether that photo of the Dybala #10 kits were real or not?
 
Adcuth said:
Right so if he's supposed to fly in today, can someone find all the flights from New York to Manchester, get some spies down to Carrington and OT to look out for helicopters, cover all the bases to fuel our muppet filled weekend
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A flight arrived from JFK at 10.30am today :drool: You never know

I think the next one is tomorrow morning.
 
SammyUnited_83 said:
Well I don't believe reports.

Even Duncan Castles who seems to have the inside track on this said it would be done before last weekend.

The Italian journos have said it would be announced every day this week and Sky said he would fly today. All have been wrong (well barring sky but they havent mentioned it since so I presume it's bs).

His holiday has ended, the excuses for delaying this are drying up. Leads me to believe the BBC guy who said he was told there still was no deal.

If we were just down to final paperwork and that everything was agreed, surley they could just make an announcment.

I expect we will hear something today / tomorrow unless we have hit a hitch.
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Again, why would they make an announcement before signing? That makes zero sense. That would just be to make people like you sleep better. But then you'd cry more when it falls through at last moment
 
Sarni said:
Perhaps we really were very close to agreeing a deal with Juventus a couple of weeks ago when it was reported but we couldn't get the deal done and they had a change of mind? I really doubt that a deal that was agreed over a week ago would still be kept a secret by both clubs, makes zero sense.
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It makes plenty of sense, if they were just haggling over the final little bits. There are 4 parties to satisfy in this deal, the player, his agent and both clubs. Nothing will be announced until there is a signature. Why do people find that hard to comprehend?
 
golden_blunder said:
It makes plenty of sense, if they were just haggling over the final little bits. There are 4 parties to satisfy in this deal, the player, his agent and both clubs. Nothing will be announced until there is a signature. Why do people find that hard to comprehend?
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I agree, but regarding the bolded we have announced players before medical and contracts signings before, so I think people can assume we'll do it again?
 
midnightmare said:
This discussion on valuation is something I just don't get. People seem to have a massively distorted view of the game thanks to Ronaldo. So, just for the sake of it, let's go slightly further back in the game. Before Ronaldo (let's forget the pesky Kaka fee), Zidane was the most expensive player in the world. He cost Real Madrid GBP 57 Mn at the age of 29. He only ever scored 10 or more league goals in a season once (for Bordeaux in 1992-93). His season-high for goals scored was 12 (across all competitions). Here's the context:

Age: 29
Resale value: 0
Real Madrid income (from Deloitte Money League) in 2000/01: 138 Mn Euros
That figure today stands at 577 Mn Euros

Before Zidane, the record-holder was Figo. He had a nearly identical scoring record to Zidane.

My point is that people have got this massively mistaken idea that clubs pay / should pay for players based on the goal-scoring prowess alone. Fact is, this view has been massively distorted by Ronaldo's (and Messi's) goal-scoring exploits. Take them aside and you'll realise that before these guys, a player who scored 20+ a season was a phenomenon. 25 in the league? That was considered a minor miracle.

When you look at Pogba, he's (at just 23) scoring as many as Zidane was scoring (for the same club) when Madrid made their move. As a % of revenues, the proposed fee is dwarfed by what Madrid paid for both Zidane and Figo.

Even for United (mentioned long time ago on this same thread), fee as % of revenue will not be the highest for Pogba (Rio and Veron will remain higher). Those above him in the table were not goalscorers either.

Hmm... just glad to have got that off my chest. Irritates me no end when rival fans start this rubbish... Maddens me when some of our lot do the same!
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Bingo.
 
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golden_blunder said:
I doubt we've signed anyone before the other club had signed the agreement to sell
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My mistake, I thought you meant the player signing the contract, not the club signing the agreement to release him. As you were. ;)
 
LouisDanGaal said:
That's all well and fine but you are far too focused on goals. When roy keane broke the transfer record he didn't have many goals either but that isn't the point of the transfer, neither with zidane or pogba, you don't buy players like that for goals so I think your point is distorted.
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What are you talking about? His point was exactly the same as the one you just made. Goals aren't the be all and end all for spending a lot of money on a player.
 
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