No, actually I don't: I've seen United spend bucket-loads over the last 3 seasons, yet finish outside of the top 4 twice. In any case, our money is mostly going on building a new stadium complex.
People may be very excited about him, being so good at his age and a top top player in the world. Over-rated is a poor choice of words, when most people rate him because he is one of the best already and should be much better.
That was mismanagement (regarding the finishes) and last season we finished same points as.....City..who are one of the clubs who ruined the market. Glaston, the most satisfying thing is bringing through youth - which we have. Last season over 10 kids made their debut with one going the Euro's. It all evens itself out if you balance purchases with kids. Look how much United bought Schmichael, Cantona, Irwin, Ole etc etc in the past. However, it's important to keep these players so as to build. Actually I'm wrong, Mcnair went with Northern Ireland.
This. He is a great player and all but c'mon. He is quite one dimensional and isn't at all complete. He has potential to be complete but at the moment he isn't there yet.
You're right.
He is rated over his real level and therefore he is overrated. We use that expression in that context for everyone, there is no reason to beat around the bush because it's Pogba.
Too much salt will give you a heart attack, you know that right?
I know. I rate you as a poster, I just think its a bit unfair on Pogba that the word over-rated is used by so many people. That said, I do agree on everything you said.
Not if United win the league it isn't, unless you're really into that type of thing.
For us United fans, watching Pogba succeed here would be sweeter than what you describe of Alli or Dier. He's our kid, plucked from Le Havre at 16 and blossomed through our U18s and U21s. We knew how good he could be and after being mishandled by Ferguson we apparently lost the pleasure of watching him succeed here.
I'm sorry, but it's stupid to spend £100m on "potential". Yes, he's a good player, but there are plenty of them around.He's not overrated just like Kane isn't shite by being out performed by an 18 year old with little experience in comparison(at the Euros). As for the second point, you noticed I said Kane was a great player? ...I'm guessing I and many others have seen Pogba far more then you so know his potential? So when we say he's potentially a great player, that's what we mean
So you can stop hiding behind he's over rated - when really, you just hate United and are wumming.
Absolutely 100% spot on. I couldn't give a rats ass how much a player costs as long as a. He improves our team and b. We can afford it.
Thanks.
It's potential that we are well aware about considering we've had the player and know first hand his potential. You've described a certain type of player but very few players are finished article at 23. What you need to understand is it's a sellers market. So we will pay more then what would be ideal BUT we weigh that up amongst other options and should we feel - that over the next 5 years there will be no better option, we'll pay what it takes
Depends on what the goals are. If you aim at top four finish like Spurs and can afford to miss out it's ok to have seasons winning nothing(in Spurs case 1 league cup in 25 years). If you are looking at challenging for the title and going deep in Europe you need to spend. Look at Barca, Real and basically every team that won the Prem bar Leicester.
Kroos and Niguez would cost more than 80m and they aren't available.
They are gutted. Missing out on the Champions League was supposed to ruin us, while for teams like Spurs it was the new order.
More fool them then, we make too much money and are too big to collapse after 2 or 3 dodgy seasons. It would happen to City and Chelsea and other paper clubs but not a club as big as us.
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I don't think we need more than one midfielder right now, If players like Herrera, Shweini and Rooney don't perform next season then sure we can buy, but right now one high quality midfielder should be enough.
You make it sound like every United fan is like this. It's split 50/50 not only on the Caf, but amongst most football fans that people think he's either currently overrated but has great potential, and people thinking he's already the best. Personally, I think he's very overrated and, despite the contrary, a lot of other United fans feel that way, too.
If a club put 100M on the table for Pogba, Juve would accept.
Yeah but I think we can already see that buying from a prem club is going to be very difficult/pricey at the mo and in fact the rest of the world is probably looking over here and rubbing their hands.
You're a funny guy. Keep 'em coming.
That's just Glaston bring Glaston.
You would have thought so.
How is that a point? the world collectively laughed at the David Luiz transfer and others and haven't stopped laughing since. So... because other teams allowed themselves to be bent over to the tune of 50mill we should be eager to pay 100mill!
