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In this market should of got more then that for him! That's like 10m in pounds.
 
zzeezzy said:
Still a very promising player who obviously willl hit form with the right team/manager. Should of been £20m+ considering what we paid.
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60% of our fee back for a player who has done literally nothing barring a few good showings in Europe, on top of what seems a poor attitude, isn't too bad. We could've held out for a tiny bit more, but I just think Jose wants it done. And it's not as if we're in a position in where we need to grind out for an extra couple of million.
 
RhQQ said:
60% of our fee back for a player who has done literally nothing barring a few good showings in Europe, on top of what seems a poor attitude, isn't too bad. We could've held out for a tiny bit more, but I just think Jose wants it done. And it's not as if we need to grind out for an extra couple of million.
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Think it's a good deal all things considered. Plus we will earn more in incentives.
 
Puddz said:
And I don't think its fair to say he didn't perform against Liverpool, when Liverpool set up to stop our midfield. Hate to say it but Liverpool should get credit for it, not Pogba getting blamed for it.
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There's being nullified and there's being ****. Let's call a spade a spade, he was god-awful against Liverpool.
 
He was very poor on Sunday, which is a pity considering how fantastic he's been in every other bit of our resurgence, but to say games like Arsenal and Tottenham, in which he bossed, aren't huge, but Chelsea, City & Liverpool are, is wrong.

Chelsea was just a complete and utter freak game. We got sucker punched by that early Pedro goal, the game-plan went out the window, and we played into Conte's hands by pushing for the goal(s). The City match, Pogba wasn't even that bad, Pep mastered us in the first half, but Pogba and his 9 outfield team mates came out fighting in the second half, far from a MOTM performance, but not notably bad. As quiet as he was at Anfield, he was very nearly the "game changer", put a beautiful ball on a plate for Ibra who should've done better, and may well of saw us perform a smash & grab. But I really can't figure out Sunday's performance, the only theory I personally have, and it's not excusing how poor he was, but I think that because he missed that early chance, before conceding that silly penalty (there was no signs where the Liverpool goal was coming from before that, which probably made it that little bit more annoying), he felt he had to take it all into his own hands to try and redeem himself, to the point where he did far too much, and instead of looking like he wanted to make up for it, nothing was happening for him, and it just looked so so poor. Too many touches, not enough simple passes, etc etc. As I said, not excusing the performance, but I'm not buying the "Pogba can't perform in big games" hocus pocus.
 
Interesting! Especially after Ballague said the other day that there could be other factors for us getting Griezmann and Saul





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Gil Marin & Cerezo to sell Griezmann and Saul so Carlos Slim doesnt gain control of Atletico? [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/political-in-fighting-could-force-atletico-madrid-to-sell-stars-like-antoine-griezmann-in-pursuit-of-a7533251.html …[/URL]
 
Again, I was mocking Pogba's big game inconsistency way before Pogba to United was even a rumor. So no idea where are all those comments about "ignoring months of excellence" or "ignoring this or that game" is coming from.

If you didn't want Pogba to be judged by his transfer fee, you should've spend less on him. World record transfer bring world record expectations, this isn't wrong and this isn't unfair, that's how it always was.

I love how the attitude towards money changed around here the moment United joined the ranks of obscene spenders. 3-4 years back ya'all were ranting about Chelsea and City "buying titles", but now it's suddenly ungentelmanly to call out your insanely expensive player for being **** in one game.

Seriously.
 
Eh? United have always spent a lot of money, it was just cut during the earlier glazer years. Talking ***** Tyton.
 
Very happy with that! Good money back for both Schniederlin and Memphis. Smart to have a buy back option! Shrewd Woody :)



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Looks like Man United's deal with Lyon for Memphis Depay only favours the selling club. Buy-back and sell-on + decent fee. Shrewd business.
 
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Tyton said:
If you didn't want Pogba to be judged by his transfer fee, you should've spend less on him. World record transfer bring world record expectations, this isn't wrong and this isn't unfair, that's how it always was.
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Hey Juventus could you sell him to us for 10 million as we want less pressure to be put on him. What's that you realise he is a really good player and don't care how much pressure the extra money puts on him you want as much as you can get for him. How strange that is a most unusual business practice
 
Mike. said:
Eh? United have always spent a lot of money, it was just cut during the earlier glazer years. Talking ***** Tyton.
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Eh, sure you would spend a lot, but even back when Ferguson would break some transfer record every 6 months, you were still only big spenders by Premier Leauge standards. Compared to Italians you were small potatos.

Now? Now you have what is probably the most expensive squad on the planet with most expensive player ever sold.

Not exactly the same thing, is it.
 
It's when you consider this season he has been the 3rd best CM in europe (only behind Kroos and Thiago) as judged by independent companies that take in statistics, yet one bad game and all the talk about fee comes out. No one remembers the fact that bossed it most of the season, done it in big games but they all come out the woodwork for a minute when he has a bad performance. If next month he scores a worldie against city they will disappear until he has another bad game. Not even worth the discussion...
 
Tyton said:
Eh, sure you would spend a lot, but even back when Ferguson would break some transfer record every 6 months, you were still only big spenders by Premier Leauge standards. Compared to Italians you were small potatos.

Now? Now you have what is probably the most expensive squad on the planet with most expensive player ever sold.

Not exactly the same thing, is it.
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What are you on about? There is such a thing called inflation... we've always spent big it's just the fees are astronomical now.
 
What if we bought Memphis back for the buy back fee? Would we then get a cut of that back because of the sell-on fee, making the deal cheaper?
 
Tyton said:
Eh, sure you would spend a lot, but even back when Ferguson would break some transfer record every 6 months, you were still only big spenders by Premier Leauge standards. Compared to Italians you were small potatos.

Now? Now you have what is probably the most expensive squad on the planet with most expensive player ever sold.

Not exactly the same thing, is it.
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Man Utd's record signing in the early Fergie days was about 2/3rds to half of the world record fee which is hardly cheap and cheerful signings
 
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