I reckon everyone gets the point
I don't think Pogba will go anywhere, but now the window in the UK is closed you can guarantee there will be tons of media speculation and Zidane and Raiola will no doubt agitate about it, so hold onto your seats and do your best to ignore it or see it for what it is - speculation and bs
He will go next season.
No ones arguing against that at the moment
The only good thing about all this is that we only bought players from the local pool. I am sure we'll be competing for the EPL title based on sheer determination, love for the shirt and extremely high fitness levels/workrate alone.
Really? I think N dombele, tilemans, Rabiot( who we failed to attract), were available too.
I know this is probably a troll comment but Sean Longstaff i hope can play CDM since the last thing we need is another headless chicken box to box midfielder.
I was being sarcastic, I agree that there were many options to improve our midfield drastically. Which makes it more bizzare that we only had eyes for a guy with maybe a dozen PL games.
I could still see us selling Pogba in the next few weeks. If we don't start the season well I think he will be moaning about the lack of ability around him and that we failed to get him a decent partner in and could be seeking to leave.
This is a very pessimistic outlook on life, I would be fatalistic instead, this season he's going nowhere, next summer he's gone and stop worrying!
I could be wrong, but I reckon your missing the sarcasm in that post!Only longstaff could improve the mid.
In the whole world of football
Thanks for so much optimism and reassuranceThis is a very pessimistic outlook on life, I would be fatalistic instead, this season he's going nowhere, next summer he's gone and stop worrying!
. I'm just sick of getting fed so much crap by Woody!Lukaku is shit. We haven’t replaced him no but it’ll give players like Martial or Sanchez the chance to play up top, and some young players like Greenwood the chance to come in.
I think the defence will make a huge difference. It was an embarrassing area for us and we certainly have some talented players up top that just need to step it up now
Yes and the Busby Babes were 30 years before that. Your point is?
There is something in this. He showboats sometimes and then the next will play a killer pass. I think it's hard for the players around to know what he'll do just as the opposition find it. I think he needs to simplify his game for those around him. When he does he's lethal and we're more lethal as a result. I think, in other words, he needs to grow up a bit!
Lingard has one though.
His nan signed the consent form.
It all depends of this season. Let's go win the league now and turn this ship, I am tired of the negativity here.
True. Superior player to the likes of Roca, Rodri, Barella, Rabiot, Grillitsch, Pellegrini, Ndombele, Tielemans etc. No wonder why Newcastle refused to sell him for less than £50m.
I believe in optimism with realism.
No value in the market mate, especially not for foreign fairies who aren't even prem proven. We can only hope the football gods grace us with Longstaff's presence next season.
Every year we hear the same thing. He’s the next this, that and the other. And case in point it doesn’t happen that often. Too many fans have this opinion playing youth will solve all the problems when we don’t produce quality players and haven’t done for 30 years.
For 6 or so years we've also heard the next mega money signing is the answer. And what happened there? The club has a heritage of playing young, and often homegrown players, or at least players who are hungry – and winning a lot of trophies from that. Under a talismanic manager. That's exactly why the club is so huge. You don't throw that away. It may not bring instant success every single year but them's the breaks.
In the process the likes of Cleverley, Danny welbeck, Lingard, gets promoted and play large number of games too being only half decent and nothing else.
You have to start somewhere. Since Ferguson the club has been trying to buy immediate success and it hasn't worked. There has been no long term team building, just panic buy big names. The great Utd teams of the past had mediocre players in them too, but they had a core of players who understood the club and had the right attitude, which is what we haven't had lately. These are then supported with some truly world class internationals. It's a long term vision. That's the way it has worked – build the core first. The other way, the City way, clearly hasn't worked here.
We are better suited by playing Pereira or Gomes instead. Both can pass and receive the ball. McTominay is a Zero-sum player, but he can't help with playing out of defence.
From what I've seen of Pereira in midfield (not as a #10) he is not up to the task. He is easily pushed around, he's a bit of a hothead who can't really tackle and lacks defensive awareness. Gomes is a #10 or a wide attacker. The trouble is, we simply don't have the players required. Unless Matic rolls back the years or Fred improves to be worth even half of what we paid for him, we're totally reliant on Pogba and McTominay.
