Pogba Future

Would you accept Dybala and Sandro for Pogba?


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haram

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You can have your opinions, he will rip the piss out of world football if he gets the move to Real Madrid.
 

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You can have your opinions, he will rip the piss out of world football if he gets the move to Real Madrid.
And I say he'll get booed to death there in the first Classico he decides to stroll around on the pitch like he does in big games here.
 

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And I say he'll get booed to death there in the first Classico he decides to stroll around on the pitch like he does in big games here.
Undoubtedly. He's been booed off by his own French fans and posters focus on his 4 world cup games to suggest he's always been great for France.

It will be interesting how he forms at Real. If at Juve he'l walk the league because Serie A isn't as good - but La Liga will be an interesting development. I'd have more respect for him if he chose Real to be honest.
 

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And I say he'll get booed to death there in the first Classico he decides to stroll around on the pitch like he does in big games here.
They booed Ronaldo so I dont get your point. Lad has already won a world cup away from this squad.
 

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They booed Ronaldo so I dont get your point. Lad has already won a world cup away from this squad.
Giroud won the WC as well. I don't get this. He didn't that World Cup alone. :lol:

As for Madrid fans booing, they aren't going to endure him walking and strolling on the pitch in big games like Old Trafford endured for 3 years.
 

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Giroud won the WC as well. I don't get this. He didn't that World Cup alone. :lol:

As for Madrid fans booing, they aren't going to endure him walking and strolling on the pitch in big games like Old Trafford endured for 3 years.
Anyone without an agenda knows the difference between Giroud and Pogba. Even when just considering the tournament itself.
 

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I hope we can cash in at least 150M or 100 + decent player to postition we need an then Mino Rucola can feck off.
 

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Anyone without an agenda knows the difference between Giroud and Pogba. Even when just considering the tournament itself.
He was part of the team that won the Cup but thinking he was the key factor behind it or something is simply not true. By any means that Cup proves that he's good when he's just a part of a great team not the key stone you build the entire team around, because he was tactically disciplined and didn't go forward much in this tournament. His performance in the World Cup is overrated.
 

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Everyone deserves criticism. The difference is Pogba can play at Juve and Real and the rest of them cannot. Pogba is never in a million years a Europa league player.
Shall we have a look at his performances during the CL last season? Where was he for Juve home and away? PSG at home? The Barca ties? In fact, if we look back, the only game he genuinely played well in was Young Boys away... A Europa League team. Also, he was a part of a team and squad that failed to get in to the Top 4.

On the strength of his and the team's performances last season, he is a Europa League level player. Unfortunately, his ego can't accept that.
 

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Giroud won the WC as well. I don't get this. He didn't that World Cup alone. :lol:

As for Madrid fans booing, they aren't going to endure him walking and strolling on the pitch in big games like Old Trafford endured for 3 years.
He doesn't need to tbh. He has a much better defence, a brilliant midfield and a good attack. He just would be bloody brilliant with them.
 

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You have to bring up Ronaldo who is one of the greatest players of all time. Even then, Ronaldo was playing with much better players at Real. If Ronaldo plays in our side we are still going to struggle regardless. Hazard didn’t drag Chelsea in every game.



It’s the same fan base that overrate players like Bailly and then have the audacity to hold us being in the Europa against Pogba. News flash, Pogba is one of the only players in our team that could play at a team like Juve or Real.
Why wouldn't I bring up Ronaldo when you said that not one playee drags their team through every week. Ronaldo done it for Madrid. To a certain extent Hazard done it for Chelsea, who else performed so consistently well for them?

Why can't Pogba maintain the same effort week in week out? Not necessarily dragging the team through but setting an example to follow.

If Ronaldo plays in our side then his drive and leadership gets us champions league football. We sorely miss a leader in the team, Zlatan was the last one we had. The mantle was passed to Pogba and he just wasn't up to the task.
 

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Shall we have a look at his performances during the CL last season? Where was he for Juve home and away? PSG at home? The Barca ties? In fact, if we look back, the only game he genuinely played well in was Young Boys away... A Europa League team. Also, he was a part of a team and squad that failed to get in to the Top 4.

On the strength of his and the team's performances last season, he is a Europa League level player. Unfortunately, his ego can't accept that.
If that was the case then we wouldn’t be fighting to keep him. Madrid and Juventus are very keen on him. They know his ability.
 

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He doesn't need to tbh. He has a much better defence, a brilliant midfield and a good attack. He just would be bloody brilliant with them.
We'll be around here next year and his performance thread in the football thread and we'll see. I can't wait for it. Gonna enjoy the hell out of Madrid fans booing him to death after losing a Classico. :drool:
 

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You can have your opinions, he will rip the piss out of world football if he gets the move to Real Madrid.
He didn't rip the piss out of the world when he had prime Pirlo and Vidal, as well as Pjanic and Marchisio, what makes you think he'll do it in Spain? Especially since he'll likely come up against a Barca juggernaut who will likely have Neymar, Griezmann, and De Jong in their ranks when the transfer window closes.
 

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Can anyone think of any United player ever with as much ability as Pogba who the fanbase never warmed to? Berbatov, perhaps, although he wasn't nearly as widely disliked, and then there's Nani, but he obviously wasn't as good
 

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And comparing Hazard , Ronaldo and Pogba show your lack of football knowledge. A CM is still relying on his strikers to finish. None of them scored in the last two months of the season. That's why we failed. I can still remember numerous passes that was squandered and wasted but Pogba is the problem right?
How is that displaying a lack of football knowledge? I was asked about players dragging their teams through each week, regardless of position they played. Wasn't a comparison at all, just more to show that having that one player can make all the difference and we should have that in Pogba. He came back a world Cup winner and let everyone know that but didn't perform to a consistent level every week, fluctuating between performances rating of, 3 one week and 8 the next.

What about his lack of effort when losing the ball? His lack of ground coverage as well and lack of desire to win the ball back when losing it.

I'm not saying that Pogba was the problem for everything that went wrong but he didn't help matters by underperforming when he was needed to step up the most. Most of the United team are guilty of this as well.
 

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If that was the case then we wouldn’t be fighting to keep him. Madrid and Juventus are very keen on him. They know his ability.
Madrid aren't keen on him, Zidane is. Juve are in a one team league and a good season for them is getting to the semi finals of the CL.

We want to keep him because he's a one man marketing hype machine and we have so many other issues that need fixing. His footballing ability has flattered to deceive and he's 26, going on 27. To have such inconsistencies at his age is unforgivable. Yes, the club have let him down by not adequately strengthening but he's equally let himself and the club down by not putting in the required effort and commitment in to his performances.

Look, I was and still am a Pogba fan but those last two months of the season where top 4 was in our hands were abysmal and instead of being the leader and the one to drive us towards champions league football, Pogba was as bad as the rest of the players. The thing is, while the others were poor, you could see they were trying. It's just that they were shit. Pogba just simply wasn't bothered. That is worse than anything else.

I go to every game, home and away as well so you can imagine how I felt after driving 400 odd miles in a round trip to see us get battered by Everton on a Sunday afternoon, for example. In those instances, all I want to see is effort and Pogba provided none of it.
 

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Glad to see he has returned for preseason. I was admittedly one of the mob that blew up at the toxic journalism that suggested he wouldn't and that's despite reading it with a grain of salt.

But he should go. I think the relationship is too far gone for most fans if they're anything like me. With so much outward news of him leaving , to have him even try and play one more season is a mistake.
 

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As if to prove my point re Robbo and Pogba...


And Barney from Red News just about sums it up:


Pogba can only dream of such a legacy.
 

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Just to add, Roy Keane also dragged our sorry asses through tough games. IINM, Vincent Kompany also dragged City through tough games early in the City oil dynasty. Even today, he still turns up in big games, although now there are many other world class players in their squad, but Kompany has been a pillar, and to some extent, still is.

Edit: Just reminded by post above with a damn good example from Captain Marvel himself.
 
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I want Pogba to go, however if he does stay I can see him having a much better season thanks to the new direction of the club providing he actually knuckles down and puts a shift in each game.... if he is desperate to go then it may be his best option
 

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Just like he strolls around for France winning world cups?
Pogba doesn't play like a superstar for France. He's a cog in a team where the attackers carry all the burden. At Utd he has ideas above his station and at Madrid it'll be the same because he believes his own hype.
 

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Madrid aren't keen on him, Zidane is. Juve are in a one team league and a good season for them is getting to the semi finals of the CL.

We want to keep him because he's a one man marketing hype machine and we have so many other issues that need fixing. His footballing ability has flattered to deceive and he's 26, going on 27. To have such inconsistencies at his age is unforgivable. Yes, the club have let him down by not adequately strengthening but he's equally let himself and the club down by not putting in the required effort and commitment in to his performances.

Look, I was and still am a Pogba fan but those last two months of the season where top 4 was in our hands were abysmal and instead of being the leader and the one to drive us towards champions league football, Pogba was as bad as the rest of the players. The thing is, while the others were poor, you could see they were trying. It's just that they were shit. Pogba just simply wasn't bothered. That is worse than anything else.

I go to every game, home and away as well so you can imagine how I felt after driving 400 odd miles in a round trip to see us get battered by Everton on a Sunday afternoon, for example. In those instances, all I want to see is effort and Pogba provided none of it.
This opinion I'm sorry to say doesnt make sense. You can say he wasnt finding his rhythm you can say hes total shite if that's what you think but there is no way a professional footballer let alone a world cup winning one does not put in a 100 percent.

Pause a moment and think about what it takes to get to this level. You dont become pogba (for all his faults) by not showing up to certain games due to lack of intent.
 

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Pogba doesn't play like a superstar for France. He's a cog in a team where the attackers carry all the burden. At Utd he has ideas above his station and at Madrid it'll be the same because he believes his own hype.
A cog or not hes brilliant for France and its not his fault hes surrounded by Jesse rashford and lukaku at United. Of course he has to step up. He cant be a cog for those guys as there is no machine.

The few months when rashford and co were playing well pogba was being talked of as the best midfielder in world football.

Theres too much pressure and focus on Paul pogba. Sign some quality and watch him shine.

Or let him go to Madrid and watch him wreck the league there.
 

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A cog or not hes brilliant for France and its not his fault hes surrounded by Jesse rashford and lukaku at United. Of course he has to step up. He cant be a cog for those guys as there is no machine.

The few months when rashford and co were playing well pogba was being talked of as the best midfielder in world football.

Theres too much pressure and focus on Paul pogba. Sign some quality and watch him shine.

Or let him go to Madrid and watch him wreck the league there.
Did Barcelona leave?
 

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When he’s gone..and we’re relying on Longstaff, Mata and McTominay...only then will this toxic fan base appreciate what we had in Pogba.
 

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Just like he strolls around for France winning world cups?
God his performance for France in that World Cup is extremely overrated. People talk about it as if he lead them to win the Cup on his own. :lol: He was just a good part of the team that's about it.
 

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Just looking at the pics. Pogba pretty much the only one not wearing the club blazer that I could see.
 

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This opinion I'm sorry to say doesnt make sense. You can say he wasnt finding his rhythm you can say hes total shite if that's what you think but there is no way a professional footballer let alone a world cup winning one does not put in a 100 percent.

Pause a moment and think about what it takes to get to this level. You dont become pogba (for all his faults) by not showing up to certain games due to lack of intent.
Mate, I was there for every game during that run. I saw him in the flesh. I didn't want to believe it at first because like I said, I'm a Pogba fan, but by the Huddersfield match it was fully apparent. He genuinely didn't give a shit.

No one is denying he has talent but talent alone doesn't get you to the top. And Pogba right now is living proof of it. In fact, it shows just how good he is that he's got as far as he has when he's been half arsed in a large proportion of his games for us.
 

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He has gone? Thought I saw the pics of him in Airport? According to the fat man Custis, he went the other way with his cases, while buses went to airport?
He traveled with the team. Pictures were taken in the airport.