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great first interview, one of the best I've seen given... I'm already warming up to this dude.

The point was Utd were in no need to sell. He was under contract and clearly the best player in the world at the time... He wanted to leave much like Suarez wanted to leave last year and stayed or like Rooney wanted to leave and stayed... We will see just how happy Pogba is towards the end of this window, if he hasn't signed and extension I think his intentions are clear.

Nah... Look at Utd they didn't "have to sell" Ronaldo but at £80m they were presented with an offer they couldn't refuse. Lets not lose sight of the fact this is still a business £60m is a ridiculous amount of money to turn down if you're Juve. It would represent a top 10 transfer fee for a guy they signed on a free and likely won't be able to hold onto on account of the wage demands.

Essien.

no that doesn't support my theory at all... actually that is hilariously inaccurate.

Couldn't agree more. The youth move is important but you also need a good amount of veteran presence to balance it out. This signing makes perfect sense to me.

Every player on this planet has a sell point regardless of what club he's at! £60m for 21yr old Pogba is pretty much as close to an offer you can't refuse as you can get. Whether or not you feel they need to/want to 60m is a have to sell proposition. This is still a business.

Not bad...

And i'm sure it was front page news worthy too... LOL you must be one of those kids who post on Wangh.... "Guys can you believe it? Our new LB took jersey no.5!!! 5!!!!! That's not a good number!"

not getting off to a rip roaring start are we? LOL

Precisely why I don't read WANGH. A bunch of kids writing about useless garbage. Luis could where number 09821 I really don't care, just surprised that the comments are raining in about jersey number.

Who cares about the jersey number? really guys? that's taken precedence to the amount spent and the term?

Of course they would. I don't think Chelsea would have to pay that kind of money to prize him.

Agree with this to some extent. If we get to the end of this window and Pogba still hasn't signed an extension it will get very interesting.

never thought we'd get him to commit to a 3-yr deal! That is fucking awesome.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2014/07/felipe-luis-deal-completed.html

3yr deal is FUCKING FANTASTIC TOO!

He'll wear shirt no.5!

He wasn't happy with playing Azpi out of position that was out of necessity... What he wants is balance down both flanks. With Luis and Azpi you get similar characteristics and the ability to win the ball in excellent areas to counter attack. I could be wrong, not professing to be a know it all I just think Jose is the type of manager who thinks about building stability from the back to build attacks. Luis provides that and also has the ability to get forward if the need presents itself.

We will see... I have a feeling you guys are gonna be disappointed if you think this acquisition will lead to more help for Hazard going forward.

Coentrao was also injured. What I'm saying is Marcelo and Jose obviously didn't see eye to eye but for lack of an alternative Marcelo was played. Are you really contesting that the two of them didn't get along? Moot point anyway, if your only example of Jose not preferring his FB's to stay home is Marcelo its not exactly the most compelling argument. Having said that when you look at Luis you will see precisely what Jose wants in a FB, ball winning ability. If he gets forward it will be on a need basis and for the most part its not a need, we play counter attack against bigger teams and in most of the small games we were able to get the result with our front 4 plus one Mid. All I can tell you guys is based on what I've been told by Nick Dasovic and what I saw in one of Jose's dossier(He has one for every player in the XI but it highlights the tactical deployment of every player on the pitch) FB's don't bomb on at will unless the need is there. 20mins left in a game with no real incision. We will see more quality because Brana wasn't the best attacker, but the deployment won't change all that much. Azpi was moved to the LB position because he provided better coverage for Hazard than the now slow footed Ashley Cole. He will now go back to his natural position and with Luis will provide us with two ball winning FB's who win the ball in excellent areas to initiate counter attacks.

I can't argue something I'm not sure about makes no sense. Even still its clear Marcelo was in Jose's dog house, what do you think that was all about?

Not even an argument really. I just don't think we're gonna see much variation from what we've seen in the past, there may be more quality but nota complete abandonment from what Jose normally does.

The season I'm speaking of specifically was 2011-2012 where Coentrao played in more of the Champs league games and also the clasico. I can't remember if Marcelo was injured though to be honest.

Go check out which games Coentrao played in. The big games, until he got injured, featured Coentrao....