I think this sums up our search for a great central midfielder quite nicely
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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He's coming back for £60m according to someone on twitter. His "Bruver" tweeted (hacked?) that Pogba is moving to Man Utd.
This is obviously just a rumour.
I'd love to get Pogba and I don't care how much we spend but we'd probably look like the most stupid club in the world if we bought him for £60 million two years after letting him go.
If we spend 60 million on Pogba, we're officially the worst club in the world at transfers. Great player but seriously. If that's the money we're throwing around, then that 'war chest' will be gone very, very fast.
Personally I think Elko and Daniel Taylor are both playing the 'yeah we always knew United were after Pogba' card just in case. Moyes' comments are most interesting although he could also be trolling us to say 'look, you should have kept me after all' for when we sign Strootman.
If Moyes was still in charge, would Pogba, Shaw, Kroos and Cavani already be signed?!
If we spent 60 million on Pogba it don't matter what it looks like. If the kid stayed injury free and played to his potential, if we sold him down the line we would probably make a profit in the long run. We've got to sign someone. He's as good as anyone you could get. We wouldn't be mugs for spending what it took. We're mugs for letting him slip through our fingers in the first place.
For all those saying 'we would look like idiots if we signed Pogba for huge money' - the fact is we have looked like idiots every day for the last two years for allowing him to leave.
My guess is re-signing him, and potentially watching him become the best midfielder in the league is the bit where we stop looking like idiots.
Do Chelsea look like fools for signing Matic back? Or would they look bigger fools of they let him go for cheap and a prem rival got him instead.?
My guess is re-signing him, and potentially watching him become the best midfielder in the league is the bit where we stop looking like idiots.
Do Chelsea look like fools for signing Matic back? Or would they look bigger fools of they let him go for cheap and a prem rival got him instead.?
I really think you are building yourselves up for disappointment if you're entertaining the idea that we might re-sign Pogba.
It's true that we would look stupid for literally giving him away for free and then bought him for 60 million but honestly who cares, our midfield would be sorted for a decade perhaps longer. You get the sense that Paul never really wanted to leave, he just wanted the opportunity.
Where does the letting him go come from? He decided to leave at the end of his contract....
I think this is what Moyes believed and why he feels hard done by. He had a picture in his head of all these players signing and playing for him and believed he could put up a title challenge.If Moyes was still in charge, would Pogba, Shaw, Kroos and Cavani already be signed?!
The board on the other hand saw a team with Van Persie, Rooney, Mata, Carrick, Welbeck, Rafael, Jones, Smalling, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra and De Gea come 7th and thought "not likely mate".
Muppets gonna muppet
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Yea but up until an hour or so ago you probably had no idea that we have been following him all season and held talks with Juve.
Not saying it will happen, but I'm well past this idea of trying to logically calculate a players motives etc. We have no clue at all.
Our Essien calculators would have seen Thiago here on the basis that we have space in midfield, or Hazard on the basis that he wants to play behind the striker and Chelsea have Mata.
It would be stupid to turn Pogba down.Sure the price is high but if we have 200M to spend, we can more than afford it.
We could get him, Shaw and Strootman for roughly 120M which still leaves 80M to sort out a CB and a winger.
We shouldn't be resentful of the fact he left.It is perfectly understandably for a player of his talents to be annoyed at the lack of oppurtunitie he got.It seems his agent wanted the move more than him amyway.
And even if he does leave after 3-5 years we will still have had an excellent player in our team for that time and probably make a profit.
There is no way we can turn Pogba down in our current position, even for that fee.It will be embarrassing now of course, but I imagine less so when we're winning trophies for years to come.
We could get him, Shaw and Strootman for roughly 120M which still leaves 80M to sort out a CB and a winger.
We shouldn't be resentful of the fact he left.It is perfectly understandably for a player of his talents to be annoyed at the lack of oppurtunitie he got.It seems his agent wanted the move more than him amyway.
And even if he does leave after 3-5 years we will still have had an excellent player in our team for that time and probably make a profit.
There is no way we can turn Pogba down in our current position, even for that fee.It will be embarrassing now of course, but I imagine less so when we're winning trophies for years to come.
Pogba will be the epitome of a mercenary. United believe he'd agreed to go to Juventus even before the whole Park/Rafael saga happened, and he's clearly fishing for another move here. I wouldn't go near him, he's a world class talent but he's being advised by a world class cnut.
Not with Raiola as his agent.
Here in France on RMC by Philip Auclair and an other consultant who is in Italy, it has been said that Pogba negociate with the Juventus 2 years before his departure.
We'd be lucky if Pogba even remains a footballer for over a decade with Raiola as his agent. Would likely get tempted by a big offer from the NFL.
Is he that much of cnut? Couldn't we just pay him off to keep him happy like what we do with Stretford?
I think that quote was twisted. I think he said he would have taken his own life had he left in the season Roma were challenging for the title. Not because he joined United.
Two of Raiola's other clients: Ibrahimovic and Balotelli. Balotelli's also been linked with a move this year and Ibra has had plenty over his career. And nah, whatever we'd pay, he'd get more from getting the player a transfer elsewhere.
Yep, that's exactly what he said.
I'm certain Pogba will end up at PSG and Man City at some point in his career.
Pogba for 60mil... No.
It will make us look like idiots but that isn't the main reason.
The main reason is why is he worth 60mil? What has he actually done to prove he is worth more than any other CM in history? I can't see it.
It will make us look like idiots but that isn't the main reason.
The main reason is why is he worth 60mil? What has he actually done to prove he is worth more than any other CM in history? I can't see it.
My guess is that he'll be at PSG by this summer. Probably for around £45-50m.
Offer £90m for Vidal and Pogba with either Nani or Hernandez going the other way.
What the feck am I on about, muppet
What the feck am I on about, muppet
Either? They can take them both and about 6 more of our players if it helped us get those two.
Yes, I'm exaggerating.
Pogba, Strootman, Schweinsteiger, Vidal... Just signing one of them would make me very happy.
£10m + Bebe and Cleverley, that ought a do it.
Buying Pogba for £60m would just look embarrassing.
And then even more embarrassing when he wants a move in two years time.
Buying back a bit yes but having him in the midfield ? Not so much and not that LVG cares about money at all.
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Even if we ignore the buy back thing, which is 'girlfriend has a cock' level of difficulty to get over, he's no way in hell the 3rd most valuable player in world football. Especially when we'll probably not get more than two years before he wants to piss off again and would be very lucky to get out money back let alone a profit.
Buy him for 60m and then put a 65% sell on clause. If we're going to be stupid, lets make the next few sellers more stupid.
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