The Pogba War

Glory wrote:

Ahh!!  
Will have to change my username. Cant take myself seriously after this.

Nah... your nickname is just fine. You shouldn't care what other people say if you like it yourself (and you like it because you chose it and kept it for a long time).

*Pogba sneezes every time a goal legacy user posts here.

GloryHole

Pogba is as good as gone this summer

S wrote:

Mr Nick09 wrote:GloryHole is right though, the player decides where he wants to go.

Yes gloryhole is right but probably was implying Raiola in particular would do anything in his powers to get Pogba out of Juve like Mkhitaryan. Our relationship with him is stable and very good in general.

LOL dat EDIT.

Vlad the Impaler wrote:

Glory wrote:

Ahh!!  
Will have to change my username. Cant take myself seriously after this.

Nah... your nickname is just fine. You shouldn't care what other people say if you like it yourself (and you like it because you chose it and kept it for a long time).

*Pogba sneezes every time a goal legacy user posts here.

Joking mate. Thanks anyway.

Zinedine Zidane and Florentino Perez believe Paul Pogba wants to sign for Real Madrid #MUFC
-@SkyKaveh

of course he would

every player dreams of barca or madrid, if they want him they will get him, if they get him I hope we sign Hamehs and Kante and another proven CB for depth with the funds we would use to bid for Pogba

inb4 60m bid for Barkley

Raiola is a massive swindler  btw

seeing he would get 25m in agent fees is just absurd how does he do it smh

Real Madrid want to sell Alvaro Morata to fund Paul Pogba deal [Sky]

ES wrote:Real Madrid want to sell Alvaro Morata to fund Paul Pogba deal [Sky]

If this happens

good luck with that nobody is goning to pay absurd fees for Morata, 35M is his value. Well, I should say no elite club will. He wouldn't go to China.

Firenze wrote:of course he would

every player dreams of barca or madrid, if they want him they will get him, if they get him I hope we sign Hamehs and Kante and another proven CB for depth with the funds we would use to bid for Pogba

inb4 60m bid for Barkley

Mourinho would turn Barkley into the new Lampard tbh.

Pogba

Firenze wrote:good luck with that nobody is goning to pay absurd fees for Morata, 35M is his value. Well, I should say no elite club will. He wouldn't go to China.

dont be absurd, ofc some team could pay a very high fee for him. You act like this is your first transfer window

I dont feel any special way about Morata, atletico youth. i guess that's why they might be trying to sign that neymar knock off lad Gabriel Jesus

When the chips are down, we turn to the real connaisseur

Spoiler:

What the hell has the so called beautiful game become ? Splashing over 100m for a big strong player with weak technical qualities yet to play well in a big game ? I don't see anything in this guy that makes him so great. Would easily take Gundogan over him tbh. Much better footballer.

weak technical qualities

Valkyrja wrote:What the hell has the so called beautiful game become ? Splashing over 100m for a big strong player with weak technical qualities yet to play well in a big game ? I don't see anything in this guy that makes him so great. Would easily take Gundogan over him tbh. Much better footballer.

That's rubbish, but keep convincing yourself that he's not great.

this my friend is 2016 definition of weak technical qualities



i wonder what a good technical player does, maybe i should ask fellaini

This too

While Valkyrja assessment might be wrong, he does have a point regarding the price of players, it has gotten extremely silly. The invisible hand of the market shouldn't be the proprietor of such price tags anymore imo, its time UEFA introduce a banded regulatory framework, this needs to be modulated imo

Valkyrja wrote:What the hell has the so called beautiful game become ? Splashing over 100m for a big strong player with weak technical qualities yet to play well in a big game ? I don't see anything in this guy that makes him so great. Would easily take Gundogan over him tbh. Much better footballer.

I agree, if I were any top club I would leave Pogba to rot at Juventus. You could easily find 5, maybe 6 midfielders in any given market with his level of talent. He definitely doesn't have a special skill set or a high ceiling. Just another YouTube generation farce phenomenon.

Finally, first sensible post here

Price of players will continuously go up overtime, you have players like Batshuayi being sold for 40 millions euros, 10 years ago, that would have been inconceivable. TV contracts keep going up, ad revenues, sponsoring, player wages, transfer fees. football is prospering. I m tired of people refusing to understand simple sports economics.

Good luck imposing regulation on those. There is currently only one way to achieve that. Closed league like in the USA

Ignoring that though, i don't remember a big game where he didn't play well.

Barca final he was great despite being asked to play on the wing and he was great in both Bayern legs despite Juve's failure to win.

I don't particularly remember a CL game where he didn't play well in. I was critical of him before last season as i thought his decision making and passing was sometimes a bit wayward.

He's come so far in those departments this season though, attempts to discredit him are very silly. There's no midfielders which are obviously better than him, there are some which do certain things better but he also does certain things better than the rest too.

Luca wrote:

Valkyrja wrote:What the hell has the so called beautiful game become ? Splashing over 100m for a big strong player with weak technical qualities yet to play well in a big game ? I don't see anything in this guy that makes him so great. Would easily take Gundogan over him tbh. Much better footballer.

I agree, if I were any top club I would leave Pogba to rot at Juventus. You could easily find 5, maybe 6 midfielders in any given market with his level of talent. He definitely doesn't have a special skill set or a high ceiling. Just another YouTube generation farce phenomenon.

Finally, first sensible post here

There are more than six midfielders that I would rather have in my team. Modric, Kroos, Gundogan, Thiago, Verratti, Ozil, Busquets and probably Marchisio.

Ramsey> Kroos, Gundogan and Thiago.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Ignoring that though, i don't remember a big game where he didn't play well.

Barca final he was great despite being asked to play on the wing and he was great in both Bayern legs despite Juve's failure to win.

I don't particularly remember a CL game where he didn't play well in. I was critical of him before last season as i thought his decision making and passing was sometimes a bit wayward.

He's come so far in those departments this season though, attempts to discredit him are very silly. There's no midfielders which are obviously better than him, there are some which do certain things better but he also does certain things better than the rest too.

You don't remember a poor performance from Pogba in a big game but a few days ago you were criticising Modric for not turning up in big games

I always find fans complaining about prices funny tbh, when they are the sole reason the prices are so high.

Fan interest creates tv deals, sponsorship and so on, the people that watch the sport are the reason footballers get paid like they do.

If you don't like it, don't watch it because whether you realise it or not you are the main contributors for the prices being like they are.