Paul Pogba

[JoeMercer'sWay]

You can buy you 2 Raheem Sterlings for that. One on each wing.

that would cheer people up.

 

[Ric]

o I say....what your hearing threw the jungle drums then our leader

Ha, I don't have a clue what will happen. I just wouldn't take Raiola at his word. He's probably just posturing to try and get even more money out of United.

 

[Ajm1985]

Ha, I don't have a clue what will happen. I just wouldn't take Raiola at his word. He's probably just posturing to try and get even more money out of United.

Or waiting for Real

 

[depps]

Is this a variation of being LUBED....pre shafting?

Good old Red Ed does love to be shafted... but i just thought the second B was unnecessary in the circumstances given that Utd are already on Plan B when it comes to managers, big name signings and everything else these days

 

[Danamy]

You're not taking into account the role he played for his team. I don't see how a player who was playing in front of his central defenders could take the game by the scruff of the neck. He was being sacrificed for payet/Sissoko and later Coman.

As for KDB you are aware of the criticism that came his way from the Belgium medical staff after the tournament. For whatever reason, Belgium found it difficult to integrate KDB into their team. I think that was tactical, but you're on shaky ground if you want to compare the two when they had different roles in the team (if you could call Belgium a team).

So with that in mind we're saying Sissoko (a player that's just helped Newcastle get relegated) is better in that role than Pogba?

Deschamps fucked right up by playing him in a position where he's not effective, he basically took his danger away from the French team

 

[BLUEMATT23]

I think agents should be banned from the game. Why can't footballers represent themselves these days?

 

[the plasterer]

So with that in mind we're saying Sissoko (a player that's just helped Newcastle get relegated) is better in that role than Pogba?

Deschamps fucked right up by playing him in a position where he's not effective, he basically took his danger away from the French team

spot on, he could of played kante as the holding midfielder, freeing up pogba

 

[woolleyback blue]

Good old Red Ed does love to be shafted... but i just thought the second B was unnecessary in the circumstances given that Utd are already on Plan B when it comes to managers, big name signings and everything else these days

Considering the number of hands they have had on the tiller recently I think there more likely to be on plan X

 

[RandomJ]

I think agents should be banned from the game. Why can't footballers represent themselves these days?

Probably because most are thick as pig shit and would get taken advantage of by clubs.

 

[Marvin]

So with that in mind we're saying Sissoko (a player that's just helped Newcastle get relegated) is better in that role than Pogba?

Deschamps fucked right up by playing him in a position where he's not effective, he basically took his danger away from the French team

I wouldn't say Sissoko is better in an offensive role than Pogba. Maybe Deschamps overestimated the threat posed by Portugal on the counter and went for defensive overkill. Pogba is a physically powerful player and well capable of playing the role given to him, but it wasn't required. I think he could also do an offensive role too but we didn't see it. We just saw Sissoko charging forwards. Sissoko did OK probably as well as any French player. He's good at those runs but not much else. I didn't rate Deschamps before the final and I still don't. He was rescued early on in the tournament by moments of genius from Payet. Payet disappointed vs Portugal. He had some freedom to play but didn't produce. France needed to have more midfield support for their isolated forwards. Instead they were sitting deep covering counter-attacks that rarely came. Deschamps should have changed it a lot earlier. His subs until very late on were like for like.

Pogba is a modern-day version of Vieira. A player who can do a bit of everything but ask him to be a defensive midfielder in a game when the opponent is sticking 8 men behind the ball and you wont see him.

I hope now he decides to stay at Juve. The agent seems to have made all the running on this whilst he has been at the Euros. Hopefully now its all over, he turns round to Riola and says thanks but no thanks.