Rumoured Paul Pogba

[OneMoSalah 8,615]

1 hour ago, Special Juan said:

Woeful again yesterday but all you get from United fans is "He will be worth it" and "He just needs time to settle"

Not even worth half of that 90M, good player but no more than that.

Wouldn't say he was woeful. In all honestly United are coming along offensively, the likes of Zlatan, Mkhitryian and Pogba are starting to click and when top players with their ability start to click they will cause teams issues. He will never play as good as he did for Juventus because Mourinho won't allow him that freedom unfortunately. Definitely not worth the money they paid but he's not been awful, United are a final ball off looking alright going forward or so the impression I got watching them against Everton was that, although they have defensive problems.

[Rmpr 8,977]

On 10/24/2016 at 4:24 PM, Jason said:

Maybe from an offensive point of view. But from the defensive side of things, both midfielders still have to work to protect the defence - covering the space, putting pressure on the ball, make sure there's no space between the lines, getting back to cover if possession is lost etc.

Not disagreeing with your overall point about Pogba. However, a 3-4-3 system while defending is much more like a 5-something (usually 3-2 or 4-1), so a player like Pogba wouldnt necessarily have to work so hard since he would have back up protection (so to speak).

Nowadays, formations and positions are very fluid so its hard to analyse and things usually depend on a case to case basis. 

[Jase 43,479]

9 hours ago, Rmpr said:

Not disagreeing with your overall point about Pogba. However, a 3-4-3 system while defending is much more like a 5-something (usually 3-2 or 4-1), so a player like Pogba wouldnt necessarily have to work so hard since he would have back up protection (so to speak).

Nowadays, formations and positions are very fluid so its hard to analyse and things usually depend on a case to case basis. 

Even then, I don't think you can really afford 'passenger' in the team unless he's contributing massively in attack. Otherwise, Fabregas would have played a lot more than he has (granted his injury hasn't helped but yeah) under Conte.