Another great post. In a way if we’d written our last few posts first I’d be like I totally agree with this guy up to a point but my first choice would be we should get something new going, a new dynamic, i know I can come on a bit strong when challenged but I don’t hate Pogba, honestly. I only care about the club and want what’s best for United. If that’s Pogba back to top form and motivated with a dm in behind then that’s good enough for me. It’s worth a try if his heart is truly in it. We didn’t really have much luck with that over the last few years until Ole came in.
I just wish I could see that the owners have some kind of grand plan for the team but the fact the Pogba situation has rumbled on for so long makes me doubt that they are on top of any of it (apart from the youth) My order of preference in a perfect world would be
1 get the money for him and reinvest in other starters.
2 sign him up and give it another go!
3 let him stay till the end of his deal and go on a free again
4 sell him and the owners don’t reinvest.
Yea I agree, but I’m glad we went through the conversation we went through in order to get here though.
As for Pogba’s future, I honestly don’t really care. If I was presented with a life after Pogba that looked better than the current one, of course I’d want it. Even if it were not better, but Pogba was so disruptive and kicking and screaming - I’d still want it. But this has never appeared to be the case to me. He seems more a uniting front in the dressing room than a divisive one, he has no problem with the manager, which all allows me to look at it from a simple purely football perspective. He’s a quality player, I’d rather him as one of our midfield options than most. We bought VDB, and so far, he hasn’t looked fit to lace his boots, and he was a highly rated big (ish) money player. It’s not as easy as it seems.
As far as the owners go, I don’t know - I’m going to assume that they will take the direction from Ole on who he wants to keep and sell. That said, there are also business considerations. As we have seen with far lesser players than Pogba - you can’t just sell who you want for the amount you want when you want. They may keep him, even if just for another hear because it makes business sense. They may also extend his contract if they feel it makes business sense (to protect his value), but I’d like to think they would only do that if their manager okays it and the all parties are happy to continue. There’s little to suggest that wouldn’t be the case. I’ve never doubted that Pogba has wanted to leave us during his time here. I’ve only questioned the extent to which its been portrayed as some desperation to get away from the club at all costs. He’s been open to leave, I think, as we’ve struggled, or just for a new challenge - but he’s never been ‘unhappy’ to the point where if he stayed he’d sulk and cause problems. There’s frankly been little evidence of that, and every evidence to suggest the opposite.