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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?

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ThanksBoss26 said:
How so sure mate?
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Because I've yet to see anything to suggest it isn't. Too much money involved for all parties to back out now, too many people I trust saying it's going to be done (or maybe already done and the media leaks are just spin), too many ducks lining up (Higuain, #6 left free, no sign of us moving on any other players, Mino chilling out there in Miami with him (which I'm optimistically taking as a sign they're just waiting for the call to fly in and do the medical/signing), Madrid-biased Spanish press giving up), Ed and Jose being back in Manchester during the week... just too much smoke now. This train is on the tracks and we're just waiting for it to reach the station.
 
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SirAF said:
It's more unnerving that someone is wearing a football shirt to a party tbf :p
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this is Jamaica, it's normal :lol:
 
prath92 said:
Wrong. Fergie isn't the manager anymore and if he was as influential now, we would have retained guys like Fletcher of even Giggs.

Pogba himself told in an interview he wants to come back to united in his career.
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Where? Would like to see this.
 
FCBarca said:
When you are reminded of the falling out with SAF, would seem odd for him to want to come back but the financial aspect might be something he values more
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Not really - he's always spoken fondly of United and his time in Manchester generally. Indeed, there is likely a good bit of 'unfinished business' in his mind given how he seems to be quite driven to succeed but his time at United could be deemed a failure ( with him having to move away for regular football)... In that case, coming back for a world record fee, with the most successful manager currently working to rebuild the team (and get paid a shed load of cash to do so) must surely be a tempting, if not irresistible, prospect
 
The red panther said:
Not really, wanting more money does actually mean the seem as having a bid rejected.

If we offer €120m for Pogba and Juve says no we want more money than that, then it is the same as rejected.
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Di Marzio didn't say that. We had our first bid rejected, but not the second. They are still negotiating over the second bid.
 
FCBarca said:
When you are reminded of the falling out with SAF, would seem odd for him to want to come back but the financial aspect might be something he values more
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There wasn't any falling out per se. His head was spun by his cnut of an agent and Fergie didn't want to bend over backwards for an 18 year old. In those days we were still the top dogs not Galatico chasing 5th/7th place finishers that we have become now.

He went to Juve and got himself game time and his agent probably got a hefty commission & this 20% clause; though if my memory is serving me right, there were a few issues in the beginning at Juve too. Now everyone wants to get paid and we want a top player.
 
Womp said:
Where? Would like to see this.
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Gasolin said:
So I bought the article.

Discussions have been started between executives of Man Utd and those of Juventus for the transfer of Paul Pogba.

And what if he came back, 4 years later? The possibility to see Paul Pogba again in a Manchester United shirt takes more and more credibility as days pass as a first contact has been made between Ed Woodward, the executive director of the Red Devils, and Juventus Turin executives, where the 23 years old French international is under contract until 2019. Of English source, Manchester leans on a substantial financial envelope to finalise this case and satisfy the desires of Jose Mourinho, who already dreamed of Pogba, last summer, when he was at Chelsea. This works out great, Juventus has no intention to negotiate starting a certain amount (we're being told 100 M€).

For Pogba, coming back one day at Manchester was a step in his career plan.
The Portugese manager of Manchester United considers, in a first phase, to use a 4-3-3 formation, Pogba and Wayne Rooney as "relaying" midfielders, Zlatan Ibrahimovic as a centre forward, Anthony Martial and Henrikh Mkhitarian supporting the Swedish. The arrivals of Ibra and the Armenian international of the Borussia Dortmund are also about to be concluded. And those 2 players have a common point with Pogba: they share the same agent, Mino Raiola. The agent works hard since several days to speed up this deal, along with others, more random, in the media. "We are at the beginning of a negotiation phase, did he share with the Spanish newspaper Marca, on 20th June. Pogba admires the Real Madrid and Zidane, and this will weight in his decision."

In general, Raiola does not talk publicly on the state of negotiations regarding players under contract with him and, yesterday, on the Italian-Dutch agent side, they didn't want to talk about Manchester's interests, "and no other topic that is not related to the Euro". However, the contact is well activated and the possibility to see Raiola realize most of the recruitment of Manchester at a moment when Mourinho, whose agent is the powerful Joge Mendes, comes to the club, has something unreal. Especially as sir Alex Ferguson, in his auto biography entitled Leading, justified the leaving of the young French, in 2012. "There are one or two football agents who I simply dislike, and Raiola, the agent of Pogba, is one of them. Him and me, we were like oil and water. From there it was dead in the water since Raiola could integrate himself with Paul and his family and the player signed with Juventus." In a certain way, the fact that the return of Pogba is considered shows the loss of influence of sir Alex within the club.

By the way, for Pogba, coming back one day at Manchester was a step in his career plan. Even though he left the office of Ferguson in a tense context, the former Havre player always appreciated the club and its environment. Recently, in an interview at So Foot, he lauded Paul Scholes, who "could shoot ten times, ten times he would put the ball at the same place", and appreciate the fact that in England, "they want to score goals over there". If the Italian football has made him progress tactically, the Premier League was always in a corner of the mind of "la Pioche" even though he was tempted to join la Liga, last summer...

Not playing the Champions League could weight in this decision, since MU has to contend of the Europa League this season. But the perspective of playing under Mourinho tempts Pogba, really. New appointments should occur between Woodward and his Turin counterparts next week and a first offer could come in to buy the last 3 years of the player. At Manchester, the latter would find back his team mates in the national team, Anthony Martial and Morgan Schneiderlin, with whom he has to mention the club, its news and the pleasure of wearing its shirts. He wore them only 3 times in the league, in 2011-2012, and once in Europa League. And he has a taste of unfinished business.

So maybe Mourinho is confident Pogba would work under him. Should Real be unable to match the bid, and Juventus alright with a 100M euro fee, it should be done.
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This article was written by a guy Damien Degorre who interviewed Pogba before.
 
In what world do people expect Napoli to agree to let Juve pay the buyout fee in installments though? They refuse to sell for anything other than the buyout fee, and suddenly they'll agree to a deal where their rival will get their best player, but one they cant afford to pay up in one bulk? Not buying that one.

In what world has any other buyout fee been paid over several years?
 
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This is serious business, I check the Caf at work too during these times :lol:
 
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I do it every morning before even brushing my teet. Mental.
 
FCBarca said:
When you are reminded of the falling out with SAF, would seem odd for him to want to come back but the financial aspect might be something he values more
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He likes Manchester. Basically nobody from that time is still at United. He has unfinished business here. We will pay him handsomely. I don't think it's odd at all.
 
Burrow said:
In what world do people expect Napoli to agree to let Juve pay the buyout fee in installments though? They refuse to sell for anything other than the buyout fee, and suddenly they'll agree to a deal where their rival will get their best player, but one they cant afford to pay up in one bulk? Not buying that one.

In what world has any other buyout fee been paid over several years?
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There is definitely something fishy about that. I read that the Napoli chairman and the one eyed wonder had a meeting in which he was made aware that nothing below the release clause will be accepted. Then I read that Juve bypassed Napoli, activated his release clause & he had medical, but somehow will pay 47m this season and 47m next season. How does that work?
 
pierrethesnack said:
Been away for a week - is this really happening?
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Yes. Kind of. Everything was goin awful well till an overweight zebra escaped the city zoo. There are rumours it later mated with a polar bear. There are also rumours it has been spotted (eh) somewhere in China, after stowing away on a chartered flight. Everything is still pretty much up in the ...
 
Insanity said:
There is definitely something fishy about that. I read that the Napoli chairman and the one eyed wonder had a meeting in which he was made aware that nothing below the release clause will be accepted. Then I read that Juve bypassed Napoli, activated his release clause & he had medical, but somehow will pay 47m this season and 47m next season. How does that work?
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Most payments work in instalments. I really doubt we would have to pay 120m in one single instalment too. Even Madrid doesn't do that.
 
Tincanalley said:
Yes. Kind of. Everything was goin awful well till an overweight zebra escaped the city zoo. There are rumours it later mated with a polar bear. There are also rumours it has been spotted (eh) somewhere in China, after stowing away on a chartered flight. Everything is still pretty much up in the ...
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By the tone of the answers I'm getting, I take it it's been a frustrating week :lol:
 
Yeah I said it yesterday, why would Napoli accept the payment in instalments. Surely it would have to be one upfront payment to activate the release clause.
 
The red panther said:
Not really, wanting more money does actually mean the seem as having a bid rejected.

If we offer €120m for Pogba and Juve says no we want more money than that, then it is the same as rejected.
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Thought there was a report that Juventus don't want to pay Raiola's fee? So what if Juventus have agreed to the 120m but are adamant they won't pay Raiola with that money? Could be argued that it isn't a flat out rejectment of the 120m.
 
I think real still want pogba, but they were hoping he'd reject united and make a fuss so they could get him at a lower price, they won't match what united are offering, so they can only rely on their old tactics, which won't work this time.
 
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