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Do you want Pogba for £100 million?

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With Woodward touching down in Manchester tomorrow and Riaola meeting up with Pogba today, I expect us things to become clear by the end of the week, whichever way it goes.

What does slightly confuse me though is that if the only stumbling block was Riaola's fee, why would Rialoa be flying out to Miami to meet Pogba? If it is true that Pogba and United agreed personal terms a good while ago then why would a meeting between Pogna and Riaola be necessary now of all times?

I suppose it's all just guess work, I'm quietly confident that the deal will go through.
 
One of the absolutely strangest things to me about this thread is the almost complete lack of discussion about the quality of Pogba, possible formations, how he would fit (or fail to fit) into the current side. Instead, it's mostly obsessions with suddenly Real Madrid knocking United out like a CIA drone strike or, bizarrely, the thread count. At least graphic descriptions of male self gratification aren't the flavour of the moment, although I'm sure that'll be back in fashion soon. [Sighs]
 
0161_UNITED said:
A very interesting take, and a good post, but I think it's far more simplistic and out of context.

I think what Scholes was thinking was that Pogba isn't worth that much money, with more emphasis on the money rather than the quality of the player. He said Messi was worth that kind of money. And, put simply, he's both right and wrong.

He's Right, in the sense that the money being thrown around in modern football this transfer season is, basically, insanity.

He's Wrong, in the sense that, in the current climate, we could get that level player for what we're allegedly getting Pogba for. With Higuan going for close to 100, Deeney being valued over 35 and apparently United got rebuffed for Ighalo for 30 last January, what is someone like Bale, Suarez or Neymar really worth in this market? Pogba's price is set by the market.

Regardless, Sometimes it's easy to get a bit annoyed with Scholes' media persona. Didn't he say only a couple of weeks ago that United needed to buy Pogba? Now that's apparently getting sorted he's complaining about it?
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Well, what can I say? Each one of us has his opinion.

I believe that Mou is being brave bringing in Pogba for a record buy. This deal puts SAF in a very bad light and many pundits and ex players who idolise the man won't like that. There again I feel that Mou threw the gauntlet the day he allowed Giggs to go rather then offering him an assistant manager's role.
 
Olly said:
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The rest of this ish is EXTREMELY frustrating and unprofessional (by the non-social media outlets) and I've grown weary of it.

I've been a sports fan for 39 years and this is one of the craziest stories I've ever watched. This is some WWE level drama.
 
0161_UNITED said:
One of the absolutely strangest things to me about this thread is the almost complete lack of discussion about the quality of Pogba, possible formations, how he would fit (or fail to fit) into the current side. Instead, it's mostly obsessions with suddenly Real Madrid knocking United out like a CIA drone strike or, bizarrely, the thread count. At least graphic descriptions of male self gratification aren't the flavour of the moment, although I'm sure that'll be back in fashion soon. [Sighs]
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No point in that until he's ours. It's all about the deal of the century now.
 
GDaly95 said:
With Woodward touching down in Manchester tomorrow and Riaola meeting up with Pogba today, I expect us things to become clear by the end of the week, whichever way it goes.

What does slightly confuse me though is that if the only stumbling block was Riaola's fee, why would Rialoa be flying out to Miami to meet Pogba? If it is true that Pogba and United agreed personal terms a good while ago then why would a meeting between Pogna and Riaola be necessary now of all times?

I suppose it's all just guess work, I'm quietly confident that the deal will go through.
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It makes sense that his agent will be with him while the deal is finalised.

Raiola won't just sort this deal out, he'll then start organising the logistics for Pogba - remember he's about to move countries and he's Paul's lawyer. There's going to be an absolute shit tonne of work to do.
 
vodrake said:
Weren't there photos of Raiola and Pogba together in Miami the other day, supposedly showing Raiola yelling at Pogba for getting photographed smoking an e-cigarette?
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It was reported as being Raiola, but his face was blocked by an umbrella. I don't think any of the pics showed his face at all, so it's possible it wasn't him. On the other hand, everyone else in that set of photos were young fit people (guys and the scantily clad ladies), so the fat old white dude did kind of stand out. Probably either the players' agent or the ladies' "agent".
 
MiamiSpartan said:
It was reported as being Raiola, but his face was blocked by an umbrella. I don't think any of the pics showed his face at all, so it's possible it wasn't him. On the other hand, everyone else in that set of photos were young fit people (guys and the scantily clad ladies), so the fat old white dude did kind of stand out. Probably either the players' agent or the ladies' "agent".
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Must have been a big umbrella
 
devilish said:
Well, what can I say? Each one of us has his opinion.

I believe that Mou is being brave bringing in Pogba for a record buy. This deal puts SAF in a very bad light and many pundits and ex players who idolise the man won't like that. There again I feel that Mou threw the gauntlet the day he allowed Giggs to go rather then offering him an assistant manager's role.
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I respect your opinion, I just think Scholes' outlook is a bit more old school. I just don't think he's defending Fergie's approach so fervently, in this case. Like I mentioned earlier, I'm pretty sure Scholes said United should buy Pogba, specifically, really recently. That sort of throws a spanner in the works of your theory, IMO.
 
I'm pretty sure the reason we get all these bullshit tweets at once is because one bullshit tweeter/paper/whatever posts a bullshit tweet, the other bullshitters go "oh shit" and post more bullshit so the original bullshitter doesn't get to be the one getting all the traffic from his bullshit.
 
mu4c_20le said:
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Never trust anything that account says. Takes everything out of context. That could just be someone on Sky Italy casually saying ''Could be news tonight or next week who knows'' and he has taken out the ''could be news tonight'' part.
 
VP89 said:
Just got back to the caf to find the title reverted. Any negative news pushing this?
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No - the previous headline was old and there's really no need to have constant thread title changes as it gives the impression something is happening when there's no evidence that anything has changed.
 
royboy16 said:
If pog does sign,how may years will he be with us before he moves on?
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I'd assume that if he does sign, we'll renew his contract after about two years. Whoever wants him will probably, at least, have to match what we end up paying for him.
 
Raoul said:
No - the previous headline was old and there's really no need to have constant thread title changes as it gives the impression something is happening when there's no evidence that anything has changed.
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Ah understood - thanks!
 
Raoul said:
Looks completely made up
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We ll see.. personally I think they just relay the latest news like the hash account, only difference is they are pro united. If they are eve r found out to be fabricating stuff I'll make sure to ignore them.
 
That Juve HQ tweet takes journalism to a new low.

"Juve officials in the Juve HQ" - where else would they be, fecking nandos?!
 
mu4c_20le said:
We ll see.. personally I think they just relay the latest news like the hash account, only difference is they are pro united. If they are eve r found out to be fabricating stuff I'll make sure to ignore them.
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Yes they do relay things. That's the problem. Best to go to the actual source of the information rather than give free advertising to a know nothing Twitter account.
 
SirAF said:
However, I'd love to see Pog in a sort of roaming role ahead of Schneiderlin and anyone of Herrera/Schweinsteiger/Carrick/another CM
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Cheers. As I understand and have seen though, Pogba's been most effective on the left side of a 4-3-3 for Juve - but I am most certainly not an expert on Juve, although I did enjoy watching them on occasion the last few seasons. If I'm guessing correctly then, discussions on his place in the side only opened up the "Rooney Conundrum"?
 
0161_UNITED said:
Cheers. As I understand and have seen though, Pogba's been most effective on the left side of a 4-3-3 for Juve - but I am most certainly not an expert on Juve, although I did enjoy watching them on occasion the last few seasons. If I'm guessing correctly then, discussions on his place in the side only opened up the "Rooney Conundrum"?
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General feeling is that his guaranteed place in the team is toast.
 
sunama said:
From the sounds of it LVG did not listen to a thing Giggs had to say (including changing our ultra defensive playing style, which is totally against MUFC's usual playing style).
Perhaps Giggs was unable to "sell" his idea to LVG.
The easiest time to sell an idea would've been during the December when we did not win a single game. LVG looked like he was completely out of ideas, was booed at OT and that was his weakest moment.
Giggs should've been filling LVG with ideas and tried selling them to him. That was his golden opportunity.
My own feeling though (and this is not based on fact, just a feeling), is that Giggs kept his mouth shut, did as he was told and allowed LVG to hang himself. After all, Giggs was supposed to be the next manager after LVG, so why should Giggs help LVG save his job?
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True, he probably thought if LVG got fired in January he then can prove himself to the board in the second half of the season
 
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