the denial is real. fans used the "it is not his real position"-excuse, just like we used that excuse for the best winger in the world coman. now pogba played in his "supposedly" prefered position and still sucks.
they have a point with the shirt sales though, if pogba continues to shine like this he will be degraded to the amateur/second team of manchester and can actually sell his own shirts on matchday because he is not called up to participate anyways.
too bad for the guy in the blue shirt that pogba will take his job, but at least this way the best cm in the world will be of any worth to manchester united...
marotta is laughing like mad on the way to the bank
Just imagine what manchester united actually could have gotten for that money. they probably could have bought to proper midfielders that would make their team great again.
Somehow i can not get ridd of the feeling that mourinho probably did not necessarily want to get pogba, but that it is rather a publicity stunt that he agreed to.
It is interesting that he is the best centre midfield, yet when you play him with any kind of defensive duties or even tactical restrictions he fails to perform. i totally get why zizinho and the other pogba fanboys claim that he is a centre midfielder, because if you compare him to other midfielders that are not excelling with defensive duties, namely attacking midfielders all of a sudden his last years stats are not out of this world anymore and players like özil or payed easily outshine him.
pogba just invented the analog to the false nine, he is a false ten, playing like a classic ten but just starting a little bit further back in the pitch.
To add to the fable of "pogba was just bad at the start of last season, because he was coming back from an injury, but now he evolved and is a much better player which he showed at the end of the season", Pogba did not change a bit. It was him not being coming back from an injury or not being fit but him not being babysitted. the moment he got his baby sitters back he performed again. if he actually improved as player he would have started better in manchester but it is a carbon copy of last start of the season where he is as clueless as ever when not playing next to people that make him look good.