and lukaku will sulk in the stands for united
Paulo Dybala
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Fans like me watch the games as I am sure you do and judge the player on what we see not on stats, (which if you deduct his penalties are not nearly so impressive), if watching the games week in week out you can tell me you are happy with what Pogba puts on the pitch well then you must be watching different matches to me, or have Pogba tinted glasses onThis is off topic and i know i'm breaking the rules so to speak, but i want to replay to this.
I agree that with Pogba it most likely has nothing to do with his nationality or his race, but i think there is something else. I think some people can not stand the fact that he left and became a great player. We got him back, and since then he is judged by impossible standars by some. Even in his most productive season ever (and fresh from a WC win), it is not enough. How many people want him gone even though they know how important he is to the first 11, it defies logic.
I fear that last seasons failure has done a number on some of our fans. Wanting your best players out and not wishing to have some other great players based on nationality, not good
I agree he can be quality but he is in the Nani as and when bracket not in the Ronaldo every match bracket
Right so if this is true .. what was the point in submitting an official bid? A conversation beforehand about whether it was even remotely possible we could meet his wage demands would have avoided us wasting time on it.
Again, like I said previously .. just doesn't smell right to me at all. Levy is many things but not an idiot, he knows when a deal isn't going to be possible. Everyone could see we wouldn't meet the wage demands.
Inter would be able to pay his demands either I suspect.
You've been Dyballared...know how that feels
This is exactly the complaint I have with United’s pursuit of Dybala
I don have glasses tinted of any kind i just watch football. From football i see a player playing in a decent team being fantastic (Juventus); i see a player in a decent team wining the WC (France); i see a player whom all his manager have nothing but good things to say.
I can say that as a United fan i am happy with what Pogba has produced. He doesn't looked bothered? Yes friend, he is not messi. He is a great player that depends of other players. Like Kante, Hazard, Vidic, etc.
If i deduct his penalties i am not so happy with all the assits? Or the chances created?
Why do you think i am writing in the Dybala thread? I want the team to have one other player that can create chances. If we don't get that, we will have last season all over again. Pogba marked by half of the opposition team while we kick Mctominay for not being a good DM and Pogba for not wining every game.
It makes more sense with United though. You have far more funds and maybe there was some leeway with the original demands.
With us, we knew he proved too expensive for United and we're also aware we have a strict wage structure. Unless he was about to halve his wage demands (why would he do that?) it was never going to be even slightly possible, so why waste time on it?
His demands might not be so high staying in Italy. From a lot of reports he has had major reservations moving to England and the Premier League.
It was a non-starter for both clubs in the sense it was widely reported he has no interest in leaving Juve and certainly not for the PL
The fact Spurs and United are pissing around at this stage of the market sums up the lack of a joined up approach
You boys have been stung into action by Poch’s wobble in the press recently while we are just perennially incompetent
It’s okay though, we’ve signed a quick young lad from Swansea
(replying to you in two posts) It wasn't much of a waste of time, as soon as you hear he's available you table a bid to try and get top of the queue, then his agent sends over his demands. It has been stretched out by the press, but probably took no time at all and didn't hinder you making moves for other players.
I think it's worse from our perspective for sure, because we saw you fail at it (a club with far more funds than us) and decided 'yeah, we'll have a go at that' for some bizarre reason. Just screams of trying to keep Poch/the fans happy by showing 'ambition' with big bids for players we know won't be possible to actually sign.
You've had a weird window for me. AWB/Maguire will definitely improve you defensively but it's strange how little you've done to improve your midfield & attack.
I’m glad this has happened. It finally showed all of us that Ed has truly learned his lesson with the Sanchez feck up
Just seems pointless. Anybody could have told us his demands would be too much.
There was no pursuit ffs, Juventus offered him in exchange and we spoke to his agent and pulled out. I don’t get how this is so complicated for people to understand.
We made a contract offer, we wouldn't of done that had we not wanted him. The contract offer if you believe reports suggest we really wanted him too. Also you wouldn't get our manager name dropping him if he wasn't on our radar
Those defenders will be hung out to dry by our shocking midfield. Our strikers will flatter to deceive when it comes to scoring, we will end up with a GD of about 20 - scoring 60 odd and conceding 40 odd
I don’t even know why I let myself get so angry because the same thing happens every year so there should be no surprise to it
The club talks a good game but has no interest in investing at a level to get us competing
That’s why they gave the manager’s job to a raffle winner
The way the people were talking over here I thought Dybala was taking a pay cut to play for Tottenham with their CL, their new stadium, their manager and their amazing achievements.
I’m sure we did offer him a deal, as he was a player we were happy with in exchange for Lukaku. We did pursue him in the way other clubs have pursued Lukaku for example, he was just a solution we’d have been happy with and pulled out when we felt he wasn’t worth what he wanted.
Took us a long while to ascertain he was no interested
Besides, why did we even entertain it? I thought we were all about looking at a new profile of player?
It’s all bollocks - Woodward tried dick swinging again and we got rejected
I think Ole was a key there.
He's lactose intolerant as well
And yet you have "fans" blaming the club for not finishing this transfer
I'm not sure if you read Ole's quotes properly. He was only mentioning him in passing as at that time Dybala was never an option. So that is not like we were chasing him. Juventus then suddenly offered Dybala to us for whatever reason, and only then we started to talk to Dybala's agent. And it soon became clear we were not going to meet Dybala's wage demands. Whereas Tottenham knew what happened between us and Dybala but still bid for him without making sure they can meet Dybala's wage demands.
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Here we Go. Let’s do this. 24 hours aaaaaaaaaand start the clock
United report says Dybala is back on. What a wonderful saga this is.
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Does this mean he doesn’t want to play for Tottenham?
Of course he doesn't
How is this still stupidly happening? We have sold Lukaku to Inter and Juve ain't gonna sell Dybala now with no striker coming in
They've got several weeks to bring in a striker.
Fair enough but they wanted Lukaku badly enough for this swap, don't they?
Give it a rest for Christ sake.
It means they can go get Icardi.
But but London, CL, new stadium
And wasn't it expected that they'd move for Icardi anyway and with Lukaku finally going to Inter it sort of makes that more likely.
With Lukaku going to Inter it may well be Icardi going to Juve. So they sell Dybala then buy Icardi.
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