Exactly how I feel about it too.
He's become a far superior player at Juve then he would have under Moyes and LVG IMO.
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He's become a far superior player at Juve then he would have under Moyes and LVG IMO.
Getty Images. Stock photo site.
Was he not going to be in Manchester last week. Or was it the week before?
I'm sure I read that he was going to be announced today.
In fact come to think of it, I'm sure I read that it would be announced in 48 hours.
I do find it strange that journalists make their own timetable and people believe it.
It'll be announced when the clubs/player are ready.
I think the deal is agreed, but beyond that, no journalist knows what's going on. The bolded part is 100% evident.
You pay for every 'getty' image you want to use, right?
They could see this as a goldmine with every news article wanting to use images of Pogba in a United shirt.
An image bank. Or more accurately, THE image bank - they basically own the vast majority of stock and reportage photos out there.
Yep - transfers really were quite poor after the summer (2008?) when we bought Nani, Ando, Hargreaves, and rented Tevez. The old school stubbornness of not wanting to deal with modern agents wound up costing us in terms of success.
The most obvious answer to the delay is that they're waiting on Pogba's holiday to end to finalise it, makes more sense to wait and save yourself from something possibly going wrong, than to confirm a deal being agreed like happened with Aaron Ramsey.
So just wait until his holiday ends.
So just wait until his holiday ends.
Why would getty be in the know?
As Raiola said on Twitter: It's just a race between Italian and English media about who is going to break the news first. Probably the first and only true thing he's said. Journos have clearly been briefed somehow, but apparently not about when the deal is being announced.
If we are going to believe Luckhurst then he's made Van Gaal seem like an even shitter manager than I thought he was (quite an achievement) by claiming it was Van Gaal's decision to nix the Kroos and Vidal deals. Fecking eejit.
I can't wait to actually discuss Pogba as a player and how he will work in Mourinho's system tactically, as opposed to this waiting for confirmation bullshit. If you would have told me this time last week it would still be rumbling on I'd have jumped out a fecking window.
I don't think they know. Samuel Luckhurst has just said that they have released dozens of old photos from Pogba's time at United. That could be a coincidence, but the timing would be strange. But don't shoot the messenger. I'm just stating what Luckhurst said.
They wouldn't, they're making hay from the current media frenzy.
even though those buys came in 2007, summer 2008 buying berbatov really was downhill from there and we could not even keep our best player. No question fergie messed up buying a inconsistent forward who was best staying at spurs which was at his level. Fergie just never seemed to even improve positions taken up by average players, anderson, valencia, young, cleverley, welbeck, berbatov, the list goes on with players not up to the task. While sanchez, modric, suarez, robben, WS, toure, even pogba who was ours manages to leave us, just the same when losing ronaldo, which sums the club up, the rest all went to our rivals, and here we are
Not sure about those two deals since we would have been out of the race when RM and Bayern signaled their interest. But one we do know is factual is that he nixed Gündogan in favour of Schweinsteiger.
We could have had Gündogan and Pogba as a part of a midfield three, just imagine that.
Yes, that's the way stock photo agencies work.
He's clearly waiting for this thread to reach 1000+ pages before the announcement. Less talk, more posting, muppets. 
Surely Getty are just releasing images because there is a demand for pictures of Pogba in a United kit, from newspapers etc, at the minute?
Sun have added Pogba to the dream team for United.
Except we were in for Vidal in '14 and Bayern didn't signal their interest until '15.
Not saying they are, but Getty are a site that provides stock photos for the press and websites to use in articles. Its not uncommon for someone to give them a nudge and say "we might be needed some Pogba/United picks in the coming days" for their media.
Various media outlets saying four years since signed for Juve.... is he waiting for some annual bonus payment?
I'm running out of ideas for the delay.....
I'm running out of ideas for the delay.....
No, it was never said he would be in Manchester.
No, you read it would be done in 48 hours - not announced.
Various media outlets saying four years since signed for Juve.... is he waiting for some annual bonus payment?
I'm running out of ideas for the delay.....
He's on holiday.
There's your reason right there.
79 pages to go.
Surely the Getty thing doesn't mean anything.
It'll happen this weekend!
Surely the Getty thing doesn't mean anything.
It'll happen this weekend!
I completely agree with this.
Not to mention that he might not have progressed so well.
Chipping in to help the effort to get to 1000.
Pretty much this. Let the lad have his well earned holidays yer gready muppets.
If anything, Getty releasing more old "Pogba @ United" pics would suggest that we're not going to see any new "Pogba @ United" pics anytime soon.
But, yeah, it'll just be because there's currently demand for pics of him in our shirt for all the rumour columns.
But, yeah, it'll just be because there's currently demand for pics of him in our shirt for all the rumour columns.
A bit late to the party are they not? It's not as if a significant amount of people will sign up especially just to use these images. Those in the industry will already have access to them via previous sign ups and will have anything from a monthly download quota or an unlimited package which I can imagine medium or major news outlets would have. These images are not going to make them a fortune.
Someone needs to fire their marketing department
They probably had the images and wanted to capitalize on the media frenzy
Imagine all of the people typing Manchester United and Pogba into search engines
This Google Trends page has some interesting information
Just look at the image searches
Conversely our "barren years" may not have been so barren with an ascendent Pogba doing what he did at Juve over the past four years. It was a silly move to allow him to leave and probably underscored the emerging reality that Fergie's old ways were incompatible with the new era of powerful players and agents.
Who is behind releasing them picture is quite clever. Will generate traffic, no?
Nothing more than that IMO.
Mentalists.
There's obviously going to be a huge demand for old Pogba pics to go along with all the "United splash out £100m for player they already owned once" articles and general transfer stories which are about to be thrust upon us during the next week.
I mean, this is one time when 2+2 clearly equals 4.
I swear some people are still in denial this is actually happening
I mean, this is one time when 2+2 clearly equals 4.
I swear some people are still in denial this is actually happening
I don't think Pogba would have developed as brilliantly under Moyes and LvG. And I think it would take more than one more potentially WC midfielder to give those two baboons any chance of winning anything of note or taking us forward.
Agreed on Fergies ways though. Rumour has it that if he would have been willing to pay off Hazards agent then he would be playing in red now.
Phil Neville was on SSN now talking about Pogba, about when he was 13 yrs old in the United academy. United didn't sign him that young, did they?