Exactly. It's hilarious how his last season is rewritten when he had good season, but somehow it became he had poor season.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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Ultimately it’s the team around him I think. If we were top of the league, everyone would be saying how brilliantly he’s started the season.
If I made the claim that he’s been one of the best midfielders in the league this year, the neutrals, rival fans and ‘experts’ would laugh at me. But he has. It’s just the way football is analysed here. This is why I worry about him wanting to leave to a better team that would allow him to get better appreciation. If his exact performances, the good and bad, were extracted and put into the City side, he would be given so much more credit.
He’s the most irreplaceable player in the team. Far more than the goalkeeper. De Gea’s job is to save shots. We could find someone else to do that much easier than it would be to replace Pogba.
We'd be fools if we let Pogba go. Our midfield without him is ordinary, after years of crying out for improvements in there, we finally have a world class player.
It's a shame he's not appreciated even when he's playing well. My average rating for him 7.0 which i think is reasonable, every game except Brighton his performances have been at least 7/10.
Well, to be fair, its not about him having Instagram or not, but the criticism directed at him was based on the notion that he cared more about his own status and put himself ahead of the collective. I dont agree with this though, just had to point it out.
I'm glad Pogba is finally being appreciated.
Should be sold in January.
It disgusts me that someone can disrespect the club and their manager so much, yet still gets plaudits for doing the bare minimum.
Pogba doesn't give a damn about Man Utd. It's all about himself.
It disgusts me that someone can disrespect the club and their manager so much, yet still gets plaudits for doing the bare minimum.
Pogba doesn't give a damn about Man Utd. It's all about himself.
I agree with your assessment.
Yeah he didn't care about Man Utd yesterday right....
Posts like that are best ignored @kouroux, with just 393 posts and an average team rating of 3.1... he's best avoided.
Some of his recent corkers:
On Rashford: "Danny Welbeck 2.0"
On our next manager: "Make Keane manager."
On Lingard: "Can't wait for the day when this brat leaves the club"
Pogba clearly cares about the club.
Wow. Exceptional. He needs to score two a game to get any recognition from the media though.
I can understand that, however Slevs specifically pointed out that he takes issue with Pogba because of his ‘instadab’ and the like. So in this case it is about Instagram and social media.
This is what we want from him
Watching his highlights again. This has to be his best ever performance for us, far better than any other good game he played. He looked absolutely everywhere, across the whole pitch from defense to attack. Absolute beast yesterday. He was well and truely our superstar yesterday.
More of this please every week.
More of this please every week.
You are absolutely right. I will follow your sound advice
What makes you think he did yesterday?
For all you and I know, Pogba was stepping up his game in the last 20 minutes in hope that Barcelona were watching.
There has been a lot of disrespect shown by him in recent times and I saw nothing yesterday which makes me feel he cares for Man Utd anymore.
Yip , because Barca don’t watch the first 70mins of games and base their recruitment off the last 20 mins of all games. Nail on head mate.
Was this a glimpse of how much better we would be with a ball playing centre back ?
Agreed. Played at the level or maybe above the level we should expect from him. Looked like he wanted it on top of looking confident and relaxed on the ball
For all of the drama surrounding Pogba I think he's had two of his overall best ever games for us this year ,first being at home to Leicester on the opening day and now yesterday.
In-between those games he's been good to awful.
In-between those games he's been good to awful.
What a brilliant game he had (including the first half) Makes all the talk about how he is egoistic and has thrown in the towel in his fight with Jose look like such rubbish. Shows how good a professional he is to put in that performance after being publicly stripped off vice-captaincy!This is what we want from him
Absolutely.
Excellent in that second half
Agree, kept it simple, good movement, quality on the ball and just looked like he was bothered for once.
Pogba's good performance yesterday was due to the team as a whole being more spread out across the pitch. This allowed him space to dictate play as being the man that was everywhere & could pass the ball everywhere.
The attackers were attacking, there were more players coming in centrally like martial,&mata to assist him whilst it was our fullbacks & occasionally Lukaku that would provide us width.
All of this made Pogba's ability to be useful to the team much better.
He was a player yesterday that you could see was adapting his game to what United needed - helping out in defence & helping out in attack. He with the rest of the team are like robots doing defensive work normally due tp our tactics.
The attackers were attacking, there were more players coming in centrally like martial,&mata to assist him whilst it was our fullbacks & occasionally Lukaku that would provide us width.
All of this made Pogba's ability to be useful to the team much better.
He was a player yesterday that you could see was adapting his game to what United needed - helping out in defence & helping out in attack. He with the rest of the team are like robots doing defensive work normally due tp our tactics.
Please watch his clips for all of his games this season. Apart from Brighton - where he was utterly rubbish, he has been performing quite well this season. He has been the only one who looks like he cares about the results. Unfair to level that criticism at him.
Whatever it is, doesn’t mean we sell him and replace with a dud that gets the club more. Might as well give you a contract. And you and I don’t really know the details do we? apart from what is fed to us. He dislikes Mourinho, and gave it to him.
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So tiresome...just exit the thread. You're the guy who gets sent home immediately from jury duty because of bias and irrationality. Guy wants to win at everything he does right down to FIFA. That's all you can ask for from a professional footballer. The manager's responsibility is to put the players in the best situation to perform. JM has utterly failed with tactics, team selection and development. Pogba in some absurd back 3 because he's going to the mat for out-of-his-depth McTominay? Hard fail.
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There is nothing to say to the madness you're displaying man. I'm actually lost for words
You convince yourself of things you cannot know. Special kinda bias this
Yeah he was great yesterday. Probably the strongest player after all that's gone on or supposed to have gone on. Even in the first half I could tell he cared. Would be a shame if we lose such a top talent but if we can't make it work then he is better off elsewhere.
What also helps is more players going forward, this is also true for other players like Sanchez and Martial.
We really need to give the opposition more to think about. For a few years now we don't push forward enough, we expect Martial, Depay, Sanchez, Rashford to beat players and put it on a dime or curl it in the top corner. The crowd get frustrated when they get blocked, tackled or make a mistake. Too often we can't find a way through, they mop up everything. We need more players to occupy the defenders to give space and stretch teams, then the creativity will come and more chances. Everything is on a knife edge the way we've been playing in the last 4-5 years. There's a lot of pressure for results and league postilions since Fergie left, I can understand what the new managers face.
Consistently creating at least 4-5goalacoring opportunities every game. We should get him some decent managers who can maximize his potential, he can easil have 1point per game till the end of his career if we hire someone who understand how to play modern football and doesnt put McT to midfield/CB, rely on fellaini etc. feel sorry for Paul in this, nevertheless the end is coming and he’s working hard even in tbe bad times, showing good character which is great to see. Can’t wait for a new manager as then we will see the real pogba. Both him and Martial were amazing last 20minutes, truly world class plywrs wanting to won the game
Which would be pretty idiotic. Why would any club be interested in a player who only turns it on for 20 minutes.
He cares, and yesterday he showed it by taking the game by the scruff of the neck and dragging us over the finish line.
Sometimes he may come across as lazy or whatever but he is a class football player.
Also this disrespect you mention? Have you seen it first hand or just whatever is reported to you via the shitty red tops?
No idea what you're aiming there.
I’ve been very critical of him on here but yesterday he was excellent, even in the first half. The lack of movement ahead of him at times was breathtaking and so it looked like he was sometimes taking too much out of the ball.
He controlled the second half completely. During the 5 minutes of injury time he seemed to be constantly on the ball never giving the opposition a sniff.
His play in the build up to Martial’s goal was unbelievable, header, run, backheel ... sublime.
He controlled the second half completely. During the 5 minutes of injury time he seemed to be constantly on the ball never giving the opposition a sniff.
His play in the build up to Martial’s goal was unbelievable, header, run, backheel ... sublime.
He should learn by Jorginho how to play in that role
Yes but he "disrespected" the club, as if he's the only one who ever did that.
He is doing more than okay this season and really giving his best.
But people living in the past will never understand it, like they can't understand that the old romantic Utd is gone.
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Possibly. Hard to tell though, doubt a CB would be given that much freedom.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
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