you seem to think that Pogba only plays good in a perfectly functional midfield, even though you saw a number of games even last season where he was perfectly fine playing in a midfield that has neither Marchisio or Khedira in it. go ahead, check those games and then say to me again how he sucks if he doesent have 2 WC midfielders next to him, because the only one you will be lying to is yourself. when you take off your pink glasses and see the situation as it actually was, you notice a few things.
- Pogba was out of form since his injury late February that saw his performances drop even the season before when we had Pirlo, Marchisio, Vidal next to him. so he did actually have a period where his form dropped, as you have been saying numerous times back then. which you "forget" now
- Pogba only really sucked for 2 games, the rest he wasnt on his usual level but wasnt terribad, both were with Padoin as regista, which was by far Allegris biggest mistake in his time here. and honestly, if you expect anyone to pull WC performances next to a fullback playing the distributor role then think again. an out of form Pogba had to do it all, drop back to distribute the ball as well as be decisive in the final 3rd, which he couldnt do. unless you would have cloned him that was impossible, especially vs Roma since its so easy to defend when you know exactly that you have to really close down just one mid. as soon as Allegri put Hernanes into the starting 11 his level improved. later Marchisio returned and Pogba started regaining form which saw him finish the season in brilliant form, which he kept even when Marchisio got injured which again proves that he can play on a high level without "Marchisio babysitting him". we also played better vs Bayern without Marchisio than without him, so that much for him being much more important for us
- we not only had 10 (few of which arrived very late into the mercato and 4 of which were later starters) new players and lost 3 key ones entering the season, we also had bunch of injuries. Licht, Morata, Barzagli, Marchisio, Khedira, Pereyra, Asamoah... all of which suffered injuries at different times during the opening months. and not only that, we struggled to find the right formation too. from 4312 until Pereyra got injured, to 442, to lopsided 433, to 352 again once Licht returned. in short, it was a complete mess which was shown in the results in the opening months.
about Verratti i wont say much as i already pointed out that PSG completely outplayed CIty even without him, so that much for his importance to make his team function
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we are all Verratti fans here, there is not one Juve fan on the planet who would say no to him at the moment. the problem is if you suddenly (as off August 7th) start saying stuff like Verratti is better than Pogba or influences the game more or is more important or whatever else, when what you previously said is completely different. i get the anger for Pogba but lets not suddenly make it look like he was as important as Giaccherini was here
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thats how i see it too. maybe not PSG because they arent adidas, but maybe they will change in a few years
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also this. but some seem to think Pjanic is incredibly consistent too and puts in regular WC performances. just shows how people like talkung about players they almost never watch
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That pescara team was so cool. Sadly it got disbanded before even starting.
: so much salt. So very very salty 
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yeah, this will go well for Utd