The fact you cooked up the idiotic lie we were employing 2 box to box players in midfield. That WTF I'm on about......
How are either of those relevant to Pogba.
Seriously? You DON'T see how Rafael simply being woeful because he WASN'T a midfielder has 'no relevance' to the fact a natural midfielder would have faired bettsr than him alongside Phil Jones of that time?
Or the fact Pogba is pretty much a box to box midfielder which neither Carrick, nor Jones nor Rafael who stood in for him at the time, nor a returning from retirement Scholes NEVER were
Carrick was superb defensively and his passing to start attacks was great.
So what? That doesnt make him a box to box midfielder in any shape or form
Scholes always put in a shift and was decent defensively despite the memes. Neither were a liability like Pogba is.
As a guy returning from retirement what Scholes has was positioning. To claim he was defensively superior in that state, to Pogba is plain delusion.
That is the whole point, Pogba was regularly out of position and a liability, more than a fullback out of position.
Its not a point. Its a VS narrative used to deny the fact United and SAF goofed and lost him. It annoys me no end that people talk of Pogna like he is a Betbatov playing in midfield. The only thing you can accuse him of is not undetstanding the tactical rolr if a double pivot. But to call him a 'defensive liability' when he became a star in a used on the left of a 3 man midfield and a diamond at JUVE in which he was the legs, lungs and the defender for Pirlo, is just laughable.
Its even more laughable in light of the defensive shift he iffeted France as they won the world cup.
The greatest manager of all time and a highly successful United CM both said he isn't a natural midfielder, he is an attacker. He is clueless defensively, doesn't put in a shift and is a liability. Even in the reserves. But no doubt, you're smarter than Sir Alex and Darren Fletcher.
Rather. Im simmply smarter than YOU. Because unlike you I know Fergie simply thought he could take his time developing Pogba. Unfortunately for him, the contract situation, Raiola and Pogba's own personal ambitions threw a wrench in his plans. He called the kid's bluff during the contract negotiations, for he felt he and United were beibg taken for a ride, and lost. It happens. If he thought Pogba was any where near as useless as you imagine, he'd NEVER have publically said he'd turned down signing Sneijder due to him, nor would he have been bitterly disapointed like he was when he left how he did. To the extent that till today he blames Raiola and NOT Pogba for how it turned out.
@Irrational. beat me to it by 7-8 mins.
clearly you are a WUM. Im done with this argument.
