Seemingly on a mission to break his own record of giving the ball away in the end of that half!
Paul Pogba player of the year 2019-2020
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Shocking so far, watching it in a boozer called Kellies in town and everyone is getting pissed off with him.
Infuriating
For every good thing he does he seems to do 3 bad things.
Class on his day but more often than not leaves me fecking furious.
For every good thing he does he seems to do 3 bad things.
Class on his day but more often than not leaves me fecking furious.
Just push him forward.
He doesn't do himself any favors but honestly, watching this team and the direction the club is headed, it's hard to blame him for seemingly not caring.
What I am hoping is that he will get back to his best when the window Closes and he have to accept that he will stay here for at least 4 months.
He hasnt been good but his teammates arent helping him . Everyone is slaughtering him for losing the balls but look at where he gets them.
He got a ball literally passed to him when he was literally surrounded by 3 players. One was basically on his back and the two in front blocked every passing lane for him.
What is he supposed to do? Hold the ball and dribble past them but even Pogba wont be able to do that all the time.
He’s trying to anchor the midfield himself. His passing is still good and he’s always got something in his locker, he doesn’t deserve the constant criticism. Picking the ball up deep while having two players on his shoulder isn’t where he should be playing.
He can feck off with that casual shite. How many times did he lose the ball this half? 5? 6?
Except he is paid to care. And perform. And he is paid much more than others, he probably earns double than majority of our players, who themselves are overpaid to begin with.
Made some beautiful crossfield passes though.
He has no awareness of where on the pitch he is. He loses the ball in our own half time and time again (usually doing fancy shit) and it has been known to cost us.
He could at least have a bit more awareness of trouble. Punt the ball into the stands if the only other option is an extremely high risk dribble past 3 players that leaves us very exposed if it doesn't come off.
That's the main reason I don't understand why he doesn't play much further forward. He likes to dribble, but trying to dribble past players in our own half is high risk/low reward. If he does it around the opposition box its high reward/low risk.
Perfect example of it there to put Rashford through.
He isn't a robot. If you're as good as Pogba is, already won a world cup etc, you're obviously going to be pretty discouraged with the players he's surrounded with.
This is not FIFA giving the ball away happens in football, especially if your the main attacking impetus and brains for a team who cant string 2 decent attacks together without him
Can anyone make single argument in Pogba's favour without mentioning the world cup? He wasn't much better before the World Cup either, his flaws were always pretty much the same.
For whatever reason, it isn't working for him. Position, tactics, team mates, motivation? He's playing beneath his talent, even poor at times.
The lack of quality around him is outrageous. You can't blame him for losing the ball when he's forced to be the sole build-up playmaker, transition midfielder and chance creator. All alone.
I can't remember any player of this calibre being suffocated by such a mediocre team, ever. Much worse than Messi playing for Argentina.
I can't remember any player of this calibre being suffocated by such a mediocre team, ever. Much worse than Messi playing for Argentina.
You’re kidding, right?
He’s literally as bad as anyone else out there today.
Terrible mentality.
Xavi, Scholes or KDB wouldn’t look any better in this system with a mid-table squad, it is what it is.
He’s playing with far inferior players, he should be doing better but there’s really all that much a deep midfielder could do with all this dross around him.
He’s playing with far inferior players, he should be doing better but there’s really all that much a deep midfielder could do with all this dross around him.
He's the biggest fan boy you'll come across. It's a waste of time.
Exactly.
Disagree. The cream always rises. Pogba has been poor for three years with some very minimal periods of exception. Can't understand how some people seem to think it's never his fault.
All three of Xavi, Scholes and KDB were/are better footballers than Pogba so I'm not sure why they couldn't do any better. It would be odd if they didn't, really.
Though that's not to argue against the general point that playing with poor players will inevitably reduce your own performances.
You’ll get your answer when he leaves next summer.
So his poor performance for three years has all been down to other factors apart from him?
Gerrard played in some horrific Liverpool teams yet dragged them to victory. Pogba isn't fit to lace his boots.
Gerrard wasn’t played as a deep playmaker in a midfield two in those teams.
Totally different role.
Gerrard was a great player, you are not wrong about that.
Bullshit, how do the players you’re on the field with affect your ability to not repeatedly give the ball away or look like you even give the tiniest shit about performing?
Its not only outrageous its bordering on scandalous. It would be so funny if it wasn't my team I support.
He was right wing sometimes. Didn't make any difference. Could have put him left back and he'd have dragged them to victory.
Pogba has the talent but doesn't have the mentality to be world class. All swagger and nothing else. Never seen him dominate a football match two weeks in a row. Needs to take a serious look at himself.
It wasn't an argument for his quality but rather why I can understand his disillusionment being stuck playing with this United team.
Mate, your a Pogba fanboy as well as dictionary definition of a toxic fan. A quick glance of your post history reveals that much.
Get back to your game of FIFA.
I'd prefer if you focused on the topic and on the evidence of his ""poor performances"" I just posted instead of stalking my comment history, thanks.
When Pogba goes will you go too?
Lets bench him and play McTominay and Matic together, that will show big bad Paul Pogba.
You people deserve mid-table.
You people deserve mid-table.
Some of the passes he recieved where horrendous. It's the players around him that need to take responsibility as well. I mean, you can't expect the guy to do everything.
Still, he should have done better.
Still, he should have done better.