Well this is exciting.
Paul Pogba | Undergoing Medical | Helping out the Laundry Ladies
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Isnt he wrong? He is saying Raoila is asking for 20m because he brokered the deal but in reality dont Juve legally owe him that amount due to the sell-on clause in his contract?
Pogba, in his own words, said he wants to become a better version of Lampard. If he can achieve that, he'll be worth way more in a few years. Can't wait to see him on the pitch for us. Don't think he'll make it even for the community shield game. I'm expecting his first start to be against Southampton at OT.
Stop giving ideas to WoodyThis! Would be fecking hilarious. Dont even negotiate with Athetico over fees. Just activate his release clause and see everyone panic.
Hope he'll thump one in from 30 yards in front of the Stretty
It will be announced at 2-3 o clock I imagine
US time? Or UK time?
I went to bed at 8pm, anything happened overnight?
This video has outdated information. Di Marzio and his henchmen have already reported that Utd will pay Raiola and that the final agreement was being drawn up. Don't be surprised if the transfer is announced later today.
UK time I imagine. I'm in the U.S. Atm so I will most likely be missing the announcement. However first thing in the morning waking up to it will be special.
They wont announce it before the market opens on the East Coast which is at 9:30 and it will be 2:30pm in UK.
Every morning I check the caf right after I shut down the alarm clock to see if the thread title changed. Hopefully 7 hours from now that day will come.
You all know he's going to be shit, and most of you guys will say you knew it before he signed.
Did you mean to say he's going to be THE shit? Because they mean completely different things. If not why no white text?
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Looking forward to a glorious morning
Honestly, the price is irrelevant. The club is exceptionally well run financially, let's leave that to the money men. What matters is quality on the field, and building a team. Those are the ingredients that lead to success. In that regard Pogba is (a) the best available player in the world at his position, and (b) The right cog the manager believes he needs to build his team. In terms of expenditure to turnover ratio, this deal is less expensive than Rio Ferdinand was. And even if you look at it in purely financial terms, Pogba will retain an enormous asset value, and hence resale value, for at least 5 years.
United want to be at the pinnacle of world football, and save getting another CO92 generation, then one has to accept that we will have to buy a few of the world's best players to get there. I'd put Pogba in that elite bracket of CMs alongside Modric, Kroos, Veratti, Iniesta, and Busquets. No don't a couple of others I've left out. But you get my point. We have plenty of young players to develop. We need a couple of superstars to build the team around.
On a side note, can you imagine a top player like Messi, Bale, Neymar, Muller etc., running their contract down now? With transfer fees they way they are, it's no joke that they could probably negotiate a 50M signing on fee.
I refuse to watch any compilations until it's confirmed.
You're missing out
I'll be honest. I've never seen him play. I've just built my hopes up so many times over the last three seasons that I don't want another disappointment.
Juve aren't going to care about the US Stock market, if they're the ones that announce it first. Whether we announce it tomorrow or wait days like we did with Mkhitaryan, it sounds like DiMarzio's 48 hour timeline from Wednesday is based on Juve releasing info (which makes sense for him to report since his best contacts are with Juve).
It's P Day
I guess ignorance is bliss for you.Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Just checked that juventuz forum. There's so much hate for United there now
Not to mention some truly disgusting posts towards the Glazers that I will not quote.
And this guy who goes under the name 'BayernFan':
Yeah, definitely a legit bayern fan and not some juve fan with a second account
What a loon. Spurs are no where near the level of United.
We're certainly not gonna announce it till the Pog is in Manchester. It will be late next week I reckon.
Klopp isn't stupid
He is a Liverpool manager criticising United breaking the world transfer record. He knows how it will look.
It is daft to ignore the context in which something is said and hang on to just literal meanings.
Well said.
Why do you say that? It's possible that the signing is announced, "pending a medical" is it not?
That's ridiculous. I've never watched a highlight reel so long. I normally can't be bothered past 5 mins. But that was epic.
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Good gracious god those finishes are terrible by his team-mates. Pub-team-strikers.
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It's possible, yes. But our club doesn't seem to prefer taking that route. Instead preferring to let the speculation and anticipation run for a while. Pogba and his entourage seem to prefer teasing us as well haha.
It's done, though
When Ed says United can do things other clubs can't, he means it.
The Pogba deal makes sense from a footballing perspective and from a branding perspective, that has been discussed over and over in this thread.
But although many people seem to see the price as an overpayment for a player of Pogba's quality, the deal is a peach from the financial perspective. Players do not get paid for with all cash ufront, its usually done in several payments. By the time United start making the installment payments, the whole deal will have been paid off by the profits in shirt sales and other merchandising and marketing benefits that United & Pogba will pull from this deal. It's a beauty.
The main risk here from United's perspective is an injury to Pogba in his first 2 or 3 years, but they should be able to buy insurance to cover that risk. The risk will be higher for Pogba than for other midfielders because high profile signings usually suffer more fouls. Refs try to protect players like Ronaldo and Messi, but its harder for Refs to protect a high profile midfielder such as Pogba. So they must insure him.
The Pogba deal makes sense from a footballing perspective and from a branding perspective, that has been discussed over and over in this thread.
But although many people seem to see the price as an overpayment for a player of Pogba's quality, the deal is a peach from the financial perspective. Players do not get paid for with all cash ufront, its usually done in several payments. By the time United start making the installment payments, the whole deal will have been paid off by the profits in shirt sales and other merchandising and marketing benefits that United & Pogba will pull from this deal. It's a beauty.
The main risk here from United's perspective is an injury to Pogba in his first 2 or 3 years, but they should be able to buy insurance to cover that risk. The risk will be higher for Pogba than for other midfielders because high profile signings usually suffer more fouls. Refs try to protect players like Ronaldo and Messi, but its harder for Refs to protect a high profile midfielder such as Pogba. So they must insure him.
Your posts makes no sense. You saying Pogba is no good in terms of playing ability but never watched him play. But you are also saying you dont want any disappointment due to our transfer strategy over the past three years.
Not again.
Not building my hopes up. If I say he's going to be shit and he isn't, it's cool.
Also, going from this video to the same channels compilation of Dybala, there is an insane difference in class.
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Bless his naive soul
All of this is bonkers but the bolded parts especially.
I know with absolute certainty that the insurance part quoted is absolute nonsense. There are metrics and models at work to insure. None of these models have anything factored in in terms of a player being a midfielder or more high profile.
It blows my mind that people just randomly make things up to analyse the financial aspects of a football deal.
Same. It was so good I actually watched the full 28 minutes three times early on in this saga, and at the time I didn't even believe we were really going to make it happen.
Juventuz is a forum mate.
Haha, why not again?
The cost to United will be much lower than £92m very very quickly with all the shirt sales. Maybe after a couple of weeks week United will announce the initial shirt sales, and then we can talk about Pogba costing United £40m at that point.