Can't believe I swapped Pogba out of all of my Dream Teams just before Mourinho got the boot. All these fecking goals and MotM performances. Aaaarrggh!!
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He is, on the paper, the most complete midfielder in the history to me. Would he be consistent, he could reach the ballon d'or goal he talked about several years back. I've never seen a player with such abilities, but still, on the paper.
I've never seen a player this big, with this technical ability, shooting, heading, long/short passing, vista, even good defensively when he puts his mind at it. He has it all. Please Paul, keep on playing the way you do right now (but not against PSG^^).
Penicillin Pogba!
Majestic today, ran the show and was very good in the press as well, I just wish that one hadn't hit the post and he'd gotten the hat-trick.
Majestic today, ran the show and was very good in the press as well, I just wish that one hadn't hit the post and he'd gotten the hat-trick.
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Funny, I imagined he had barely misplaced a pass. But obviously when your passing is that ambitious, you can't complete them all.
The perfect midfield performance today. Fast becoming our leader on the pitch, you can see the players feel safe giving him the ball whenever they're in doubt.
Tremendous player, seriously.
He's just a ridiculous footballer. He could be the best in the world if he wants.
Jose not getting the best out of him is also equally ridiculous. Looks real bad on his part.
Jose not getting the best out of him is also equally ridiculous. Looks real bad on his part.
I really feel like he's going to carry this level of performance into the big games. When he's on song, he's almost effortlessly the best player in our team and one of the top midfielders in world football.
The genes in fact are great in that family to be able to produce three men who all play football at some sort of high level.
The tactics were definitely a big part of it. But it's clear as day to me that there's a whole other level of intensity he's playing with now. I think that it's either the fact that he didn't want to play for Mourinho any more, or that he just couldn't get himself motivated to play in a system he didn't enjoy, even if he didn't actively "down tools".
We shouldn't get ahead of ourselves though, it's just been a few matches with Ole. He has to show consistency during a longer period for us to have a better understanding of what he can be for us in a different system.
He plays the most ridiculous passes so consistently some of us don’t even notice when he does it now.
Brilliant performance.
Looks unstoppable on days like today.
Looks unstoppable on days like today.
It's good to see those two celebrating like that. Over the last 12 months it's felt like they haven't been as close as they once were, and it made some of us wonder whether they've had a bit of a falling out (likely due to Mourinho).
The man said several times he feels like a Mancunian. I know it almost means nothing nowadays but he doesn't worry when it comes to eventually losing him
Spot on
Some of us might not like him, but he’s feckin brilliant.
He's our player, our star, but that award should go to Hazard. At his best, only Messi is a lavel above him, this guy would have been insane under a coach like Pep. If Chelsea don't sack Sarri soon and give him time to build his team then we'll see a monster of player next season. Sky is the limit for these 2 players
I’m not surprised at all and I’m not sure why anyone is. He was always this good. Just because we had a poor manger for a few years why would you wipe away all of a players history before thaf?
I think the system and tactics actually led to him trying to do too much. In a poorly functioning team that affected him more than most.
I am not worried about his consistency either. We have never consistently played him within such a system before. Under the previous manager we kept constantly changing things which was to our own detriment.
He has shown before what he can do at the highest level. But it can't just be him. Matic and Herrera will be key too.
I think Hazard's heart is already in Sunny Spain.
it's not even remotely the same level. One of his brothers play in my city in France, Tours, it's a barely professional level.
Don’t count your chickens because you might find pogbas are come the summer.
Madrid don't need a midfielder currently though. They need a forward.
Hazard has one year on his contract. Completely different to Pogba.
It's like watching Paul Scholes; where has he been for the last 18 months ?
10/10 performance. He did everything!
He covered every blade of grass defending and attacking. Absolute quality.
He's a better player than KDB. Also did it in the WC final.
He covered every blade of grass defending and attacking. Absolute quality.
He's a better player than KDB. Also did it in the WC final.
I don't think relations between the clubs are the greatest either.
United would require a ridiculous fee which I don't think Real would be willing to pay. Madrid have largely stayed away from paying big fees over the last few years. Hazard with just a year left will be easier to prise away
But enough about that. Wrong thread for it.
It is apples and oranges, trying to figure out why and how different things are working for him right now. Almost every one is giving 120 percent, and is ready to run for lost causes. Its difficult to understand if Pogba can be this effective every week, cos its easier to say he can do what he does today, if rest of the team looks that vibrant. but its impossible to keep going back to figure out why it wasn't working out. cos when it wasn't working out, the problem was not just in pogba being effective. its the others who just gave up as well who knew what was going on. We became very cagey and it didn't help him. Now, the team is playing like its possessed and what not. if we go on from here to only have more of an identity in the final third, then his impact would only improve. Mind you, none of this matters, to any one when he doesn't move mountains in our next big game. but the way to fix the Pogba problem starts not just about whether he is 10/10 in biggest games, but from understanding how to use him, every single game. so, we are dealing with it, as best as we can.
Ha okay at least two brothers played at high levels. I don’t personally know anyone who could manage to even play for Tours so that’s high enough levels for for a commoner like me. Genes can only help you that much. A lot depends on your intelligence and application.
He has put in those sort of performances during that period. Even in big games. I remember him performing like that against City and Arsenal. Both away games too.
It seems largely forgotten too for some reason
He'll stay at Chelsea, if he doesn't then Roman is not interrested in Chelsea anymore (the same way the Monaco's owner let them down).
I think Madrid were interrested but got quoted an insane fee and back tracked because they can't afford it, football is changing and Madrid don't have the advantages they had before because new players don't give a feck about the prestige of clubs (Neymar left Barca for PSG ffs) they are only interrested in money.
The most impressive pass for me was in the first half, first time pass with his left to release Martial over the top on the left wing
Players have the power mate. If pogba fancies a move to Madrid or Barca and there’s a mammoth bid on the table and he wants out then he’s gone. This is the same pogba who’s agent was touting him out to other clubs including city (alledegedly) then I don’t think he is the die hard united fan we want him to be. I hope this isn’t the case but I don’t think you will be seeing a pogba testimonial, let’s put it that way.
The crazy thing is that his average amount of touches during the last three games is if I'm not mistaken twice as big as his season average.
In my experience as a big brother, an athlete, and a coach, that's normally the case. The youngest gets good because he has to grow up trying to beat his big brothers. Very few times have I seen it where an older brother winds up the better of the two.
The Bubonic Plague. Immense player.
What's all this talk about Madrid?
How much barely professional football have you played?
Madrid wouldn't pay the price we'd want for Pogba anyway. No chance of him leaving any time soon, besides Madrid don't need a midfielder they need attackers.
We'll see.
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