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Wasn’t signing Matic supposed to be a master stroke?

From today’s Times

“Pogba seemed caught between his attacking instincts and the need to rescue a midfield partner (Matic) who was drowning.”
 
Wasn’t signing Matic supposed to be a master stroke?

From today’s Times

“Pogba seemed caught between his attacking instincts and the need to rescue a midfield partner (Matic) who was drowning.”

Yep someone said signing Matic was gonna free up Pogba to wreak havoc going forward and that’s all united fans repeated
Missing piece of the jigsaw he is :)
 
Wasn’t signing Matic supposed to be a master stroke?

From today’s Times

“Pogba seemed caught between his attacking instincts and the need to rescue a midfield partner (Matic) who was drowning.”

deny the fact he is about as clued in to a game as tom cleverly. his value is less than 10 mill really...... captain? big game new hair thats great paul.....yeah big game tonight. where were you?

The excuses used to divert attention from their captain being 100 million flop.
 
Pogba is a perfect example, of everything that is wrong with the base everything on goals and assists attitude, that seems prevalent these days. Yeah his stats are decent but it tells nothing like the whole story. The guy is a flat-track bully, who bounces around the middle of the park, looking good against canon-fodder. He rarely turns up against anyone decent. He would drive me mad if he was at City.

Are his stats even that good? 3 goals in 21 games. Pretty woeful that.
 
Yep, I wanted someone to ask him to quantify that statement. Utter bullshit. Mind you, if Pogba was playing for us, I reckon they'd now be saying £90m was good business.
Wouldn't be getting in the team with the form Silva and Kev have been in.
 
watched their game yesterday (as i couldn't make ours) and they were atrocious, spurs could easily have had a few more had it not been for Kane's finishing and the referee not awarding a blatant penalty.

The We will never win the league with Paul Pogba in the team OP is actually spot on, the longer the brainwashed masses think he's something special , the better IMO. Embarrassing hearing Hoddle trying to make out everything he did last night was triffic or brilliant - a routine straight ball over the top to Lukaku is somehow "amazing".

Brilliant. Exactly how many times can United get rid of one player!
 
I think Matic is a victim of Pogba's lack of ability to do a job and not wander around half daydreaming. His legs may be gone but Matic still understands the game pretty well. The idea Pogba has to cover for Matic just does not add up to me. I bet it is the total opposite in reality.
 
I think Matic is a victim of Pogba's lack of ability to do a job and not wander around half daydreaming. His legs may be gone but Matic still understands the game pretty well. The idea Pogba has to cover for Matic just does not add up to me. I bet it is the total opposite in reality.

I think that's right.

Spurs exposed Matic's low mobility last season, and he cannot be expected to cover Eriksen and Alli, and anyone else who happens to attack, by himself. Give him a decent partner, and he can be effective enough - just as Gareth Barry manages.
 
He's having a decent shot at being the first player to have more assists than chances created with some of the ones he's been awarded.

Great shout... for me he's ok in a team that's ok.
Wouldn't be getting in the team with the form Silva and Kev have been in.

Who would out of their best 11. De Gea, and that's it.... Sanchez a possibllity. None of the others would be anywhere near... just let that sink in. What a time to be a blue
 
I think Matic is a victim of Pogba's lack of ability to do a job and not wander around half daydreaming. His legs may be gone but Matic still understands the game pretty well. The idea Pogba has to cover for Matic just does not add up to me. I bet it is the total opposite in reality.
Very similar to the Dinho/Yaya relationship of 13/14 and 14/15, yet despite Yaya back then being a far superior player to Pogbad, we had no problem calling him out for constantly leaving Dinho high and dry, even though Dinho has far greater mobility and a better engine than Matic will ever have.
Even with that greater talent and end product (Yaya) and greater mobility and stamina (Dinho) it was still a huge flaw in our team and it's telling that our deepest run in the Champions League came with a midfield pairing of Fernando and Dinho.
 
Great shout... for me he's ok in a team that's ok.


Who would out of their best 11. De Gea, and that's it.... Sanchez a possibllity. None of the others would be anywhere near... just let that sink in. What a time to be a blue

De Gea wouldn't because as bizarre as it sounds, he cant play the game that Ederson can.
 
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