I wouldn't say it is a Champions League winning team! It's a cup competition so anything is possible I guess (see Greece) but it's not a top team by a long way. In fact I don't believe it is currently better than the Juve team Pogba would be leaving.
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These car comparisons and inflating transfer fees... I am happy Pogba is coming, but still would have preferred the money to be spread on other players, having said that the window has been very good in balancing the squad.
Though for the 100m or what ever it is we know we could have got Sanchez for 45m, Kante for 30m and probably Mahrez for 45m. They would have been excellent additions and not shitty cars or parts in comparison
I meant Woody joining us in China, Pogba might be off until the 7th, but surely we would need to get this wrapped up before Ed steps on the plane.
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Is probably the worst United midfield in the past 30 years.Rooney
My post is too old to quote directly (month and a half ago), but here you go:
I'm not bitter and as you can see from my post, I am aware of his potential. The problem is you people because you are the ones who equate performance with potential/hype.
Potential is one thing, hype is something else, performance is something completely different, and youtube videos are meaningless.
If you watch Juventus in serie A, good for you. I don't watch and I don't know how Pogba performs in the league. I also don't care for the reasons I already mentioned. I do watch champions league and I've seen enough in the past 2 years to objectively state that he didn't have one stand out performance against serious opposition.
Is Ben Fairthorne reliable?
The bolded ones probably wouldn't make the bench of the champions league winners.
Worse than Rafael + Park?
And Rooney only makes it because they only have one striker.
No, he's a spoofer and a twunt
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Anyone think we'll play with one DM and use Pogba and another advanced midfielder instead of playing 4231? I think playing Pogba deep with Rooney as a #10 will kill our attack. I'd rather see us play Carrick or Schneiderlin behind Pogba and Herrera.
Not even close, are we forgetting Park-rafael? O'Shea Giggs Alan Smith?
Or midfield isn't going to end up looking like that anyway.
We have seen Jose's tactics board so why are posters posting incorrect lineups?
I thought Valencia was better than Darmian when he played personally. He's limited of course but has incredible raw pace and power. Darmian barely gets forward but slightly better in defence.
So adding Pogba makes our midfield WORSE than last season? How do you work that out?
I presume you mean right now, seeing as Carrick has actually won the Champions League?
Guess I'd agree about Carrick and Valencia. Smalling may not be the best in the world but he could perfectly plausibly play in a Champions League winning team. Bailey I'll reserve judgement on for obvious reasons... but ask yourself if you'd have left Martial non-bolded this time last year?
Generalizations are awesome, eh?
Having lived in Italy for the three years, I have yet to see a single case of racism in real life.
I think Mourinho will go with a 4-3-3 with Pogba being given a free role within that middle 3 and a Schneidelerlin type doing most of the cleaning up.
I can't stop laughing. I guess you're being sarcastic?
Or you're downplaying the best CM's in the world when comparing them to a 23 year old player who is coming from a midfield heavy team that is light years ahead of everyone else in their league, and then you go on to call him incisive.
Oh, and btw, midfield maestro, that's not Pogba. He's box to box. Kroos, Modric, Iniesta, the ones you're downplaying are a definition of midfield maestro's. If you wanted a young "midfield maestro", there's a guy playing in PSG, but they say he's not for sale.
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Worse than Cleverley - Anderson?
Right now, of course.
Smalling and Bailey at the moment very likely wouldn't make the bench of Madrid (assuming that Madrid put only a CB in the bench).
Martial will also struggle to make the bench of Real Madrid.
Alexis? Why would Arsenal sell them to us when we will clearly be a title threat, and why would he leave CL football to come here? Kante is great, but doesn't solve our midfield issue, merely improves upon destroyers like Fellaini. Once Pogba starts banging in those long range volleys like Scholesy, I'd imagine quite a few will start changing their tune here.
These car comparisons and inflating transfer fees... I am happy Pogba is coming, but still would have preferred the money to be spread on other players, having said that the window has been very good in balancing the squad.
Though for the 100m or what ever it is we know we could have got Sanchez for 45m, Kante for 30m and probably Mahrez for 45m. They would have been excellent additions and not shitty cars or parts in comparison
No probably not, at least initially. There's no place for Rooney in a 4-3-3.
Ultimately Rooney will have to be dropped to get the best out of Pogba, who needs to be driving forward from a three-man midfield.
Never been any cases of racism at italian football matches then
Rooney as usual stinking up the place
All those people up in arms about my post seem to be forgetting, Rafael-Park, Ando-Cleverley etc etc none of these were our first choice centre mids for an entire season.
They were selections made here and there, but look deeper and you'll see that we had a young Carrick/Peak Carrick and the likes of Giggs/Scholes still there behind the scenes to run our games.
That midfield trio posted there was someones claim that this is our first team CM and it is Champions League winning quality which is absolute horseshit.
It is slow, one-paced, completely lacks workrate and balance. If that is our main midfield trio for the majority of this season, we will be lucky to finish top 4.
They were selections made here and there, but look deeper and you'll see that we had a young Carrick/Peak Carrick and the likes of Giggs/Scholes still there behind the scenes to run our games.
That midfield trio posted there was someones claim that this is our first team CM and it is Champions League winning quality which is absolute horseshit.
It is slow, one-paced, completely lacks workrate and balance. If that is our main midfield trio for the majority of this season, we will be lucky to finish top 4.
These car comparisons and inflating transfer fees... I am happy Pogba is coming, but still would have preferred the money to be spread on other players, having said that the window has been very good in balancing the squad.
Though for the 100m or what ever it is we know we could have got Sanchez for 45m, Kante for 30m and probably Mahrez for 45m. They would have been excellent additions and not shitty cars or parts in comparison
Why do people keep repeating these type of arguments?
If you're going to make such arguments then list out players who are reasonably attainable, and play in Pogba's position.
Not just random players who are good and cost less, therefore we could theoretically spend the money elsewhere.
every year Italy saves hordes of immigrants fleeing from Libya. People the British government do their very best to keep out of your lands
Madrid aren't the only team who can win the Champions League. And it's chicken and egg - players reputations are made by winning trophies... before they win them they aren't seen as players of that calibre. Unless you're going to totally buy in a team of XI Galacticos, then you need players to rise to themselves to that level and make themselves legends. So that's what I look for more - whether a player might have that in them, and Smalling I believe is capable.
Apart from you know the systematic opression of people of colour stunting social mobility and ensuring that the majority are only afforded the opportunity to work menial jobs and live in lower quality housing districts.
All that's irrelevant because we're never going to see those three in a midfield.
Think I am a little indifferent to the fees as Poggers is an ex academy player.
At football matches? Im talking about football fans. Im not Rooney btw chill.
I have no doubt that we will but hopefully only in very limited circumstances, when we are playing a very weak team or we are winning comfortably.
His performances have been fantastic. Like most brilliant Italian sides, Juve don't set up in an expansive or attacking way (in the Champions League) that some other teams (Barca, Bayern, Real etc) do. They'll never score as many as the aforementioned teams (in Europe), simply because of the tactics they employ. They are incredibly effective, but often brilliant individual performances for Juve in Europe equate to organised, tactically astute play, especially in relation to their midfielders. I generalise of course, Tevez in that year Juve made the final obviously showcased his attacking flair, but it's very hard for a midfielder to "stand out" in an attacking sense in the Juve system. Watch Pogba v Bayern at the Allianz: he was very effective. Juve had less of the ball than Bayern, obviously, but he pressed, harried and dispossessed, scored and even created a few good chances. My point is that he's a complete player, able of contributing offensively and defensively. As he gets older, he'll impact games even more. But I'm sure that he'll thrive in the fast-paced premier league.
Fair enough, but it's easily solved. We just drop Pogba and bring in Fellaini / Schneiderlin. Then we have last season's midfield, which you have defined as being better.