Pogba isn't being carried by anyone. He is routinely deployed in a midfield 2 that plays behind 4 mostly non existent attackers that do whatever they want and Is constantly taking lashes for not covering for them depsite being outnumbered in the midfield most weeks. And despite that his stats for pressures in the final third are actually quite high.
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uh... isn't that question what he is supposed to answer/address over the years???
Don't think they could afford him. Isn't he one of the highest paid managers in the league? I think only behind Pep and maybe Tuchel.
What did Pogba say today?
Hopefully!Folks are living in cuckoo land if they think he's hinting at handing in his resignation. Nobody is going to let go off a big fat payout, no matter how much they profess to love the club
Given, he has spoken about wanting more legs. He is going to drop Ronaldo for Cavani, or Pogba for Fred, or possibly both.
I don't know about that. I reckon Ole has a few more bad results in him, would not be surprised he lasts until Spring. Dropping Ronaldo and not winning gets him sack right away I think. He will lose the dressing room in a heartbeat.
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It's staggering. They really are taking the p*ss.
Pogba said we have to choose a tactic and stick to it. In my view that puts him back to being an option at LAM, competing against Sancho and, yes indeed, Marcus Rashford. Pogba will be lucky to start one game in every two and that will probably lead to some conflict.
It's always a bad sign when players start coming out and saying stuff like that.
He's probably here until we've got chance of silverware. Unless he resigns.
So during the past two weeks they've had a good look at what went wrong but after this result they need to look even deeper? What the feck sort of line is that?
2 weeks later: We need to look at our entire existence and question what's the actual purpose of it all.
No chance Ole resigns, can't see him saying he's not good enough and walk away from it all, after all the backing he got.
Our pressing players aren’t good enough and our skilled players are easy to play through. Only way it’s going to work is by bringing in new players who are fit for purpose. Pogba is a liability alongside Fred, Scotty or Matic
That honestly sounds like he's ready to resign. I stuggle to believe he'd quit given the outrageous sum of money he'd be throwing away if he did, but I'm not sure what else he could mean with a statement like that.
Yeah. Or you could take it to mean that they took the international break to figure out what the problem was and then still played the same system and players anyway. Whichever the answer is, it doesn’t reflect well on the coaches
The problem today was not our midfield, although Pogba did not have a good game today. The problem is our defence, and Ole must play his players in form, and right now I´d rather see Bailly and Telles. While I though the criticism of Maguire was over the top at the start of last season, he´s been really bad so far this season. Never seen him doing errors so frequently as he´s doing now, and Shaw is not playing well either. If they are half injured, give them a rest, for God´s sake.
Ronaldo scored a hat trick for Portugal last week. Make him chances and he’ll score goals. We don’t make chances and now don’t stop the other team making them either.
Moyes was a PL manager for 11 years before joining us. LVG and Jose had won the lot.
Trouble is that's only half of the issue. Why was Ole hired in first place? The fact he had to come in shows you there's more wrong at this club than just the manager and tactics.
Lewandowski, Aguero, Benzema etc aren’t the greatest pressers in the world either. Pressing is about the team working as unit. It’s also not the only way of getting the ball back.
2 of them were pens and it was Luxemborg. But I agree Ronaldo needs service, but he had good chances today.
I wouldn't mind seeing Pogba as AM behind Fred and McT/DvB. Bruno is not playing well. He gave the ball away probably more than anyone today and did you see that attempted cross? I think it went into the stands.
