But that's the thing, he wasn't totally terrible today. He was the only one who was looking to progress the play for us. He wasn't half-arsed. The rest of the attack was half-arsed in not giving any movement for him to work with. The midfield was half-arsed in the way that they didn't even bother trying to get the ball back or press WH, or in their making space for a pass or offering an option to the man on the ball. And the FBs were half-arsed in their activity at both ends of the pitch. He had a bad game, and he was slow in tracking back or getting off the ground after a tackle, but he was hamstrung by a shit system deployed by a manager who, it is pretty obvious to now say, had set up the team today to make a point and has put his own reputation ahead of the club in the process.
Yet hardly anything gets made of that and instead Pogba is getting the hate. It's obvious he's lost the players, so if this bullshit means that Pogba is gone then its fair to say we'll be screwed in the mid-term because to lose a manager who's last 5 seasons finishing positions have been 2nd, 6th, 10th (17th if we count the time at which he was sacked), 1st and 3rd, is not going to be difficult to get over but to lose someone who is the one lone spark in a team that is hideously underperforming when we ourselves are at a low ebb, will be one that will be very difficult to overcome. We have undoubtedly lost better players before, but it has been from a position of strength and more often than not, it was on our terms. If we call ourselves the biggest club in the world, what message will it send out to the rest of Europe if we lose our best player when we are at our lowest point? It'll cement us once and for all as the Liverpool of the modern era.
