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bigblue wrote:Apparently the Guardian are predicting the rags to win the league. Complete joke

https://www.theguardian.com/football/bl ... ons-league

The way that paper is going itll be out of business before the scum win the league again. Good. The world no longer needs "newspapers".

Bianchi on Ice wrote:

bigblue wrote:Apparently the Guardian are predicting the rags to win the league. Complete joke

https://www.theguardian.com/football/bl ... ons-league

The way that paper is going itll be out of business before the scum win the league again. Good. The world no longer needs "newspapers".

In fairness, Spurs have not been rated yet so Utd could be 4th.

Love the way the BBC quote how much Pep has spent since he arrived in every article they write. Over 100m now, conveniently, deliberately mentioned so they can justify Maureen's spending and say it's our fault and he is completely justified as we're ruining football and he's the saviour, no doubt.

The Times are now reporting Pogba will generate £40m in the first year or so in commercial income. Trying desperately to justify the price tag. What utter horseshit

nottsblue wrote:The Times are now reporting Pogba will generate £40m in the first year or so in commercial income. Trying desperately to justify the price tag. What utter horseshit

Did they break down and show the calculation of how he'll generate that or have they just made it up and ran with it as usual?

Mase wrote:

nottsblue wrote:The Times are now reporting Pogba will generate £40m in the first year or so in commercial income. Trying desperately to justify the price tag. What utter horseshit

Did they break down and show the calculation of how he'll generate that or have they just made it up and ran with it as usual?

Think they rolled a few dice and made it up. Must've done as this has never to my knowledge been done before. Even with Neymar or Beckham back in the day. Or a potential Messi or Ronaldo transfer. It's not as if Pogba is in the worlds top 3 players at present. Or that good looking that the marketing men fall over themselves to get him as the poster boy like with Ronaldo.

Sky "sources":

Fee for Pogba will be £89m

And there you have it. If it was us signing him, those same sources would have come up with £189m

Bullshit.

Original Dub wrote:Sky "sources":

Fee for Pogba will be £89m

And there you have it. If it was us signing him, those same sources would have come up with £189m

Bullshit.

That may be the fee, but then you've got the £28 million to his agent on top of that. Won't mention that will they. Pricks!

Mase wrote:

Original Dub wrote:Sky "sources":

Fee for Pogba will be £89m

And there you have it. If it was us signing him, those same sources would have come up with £189m

Bullshit.

That may be the fee, but then you've got the £28 million to his agent on top of that. Won't mention that will they. Pricks!

Exactly

Fucking £89 mil, for one of your own players?

*In fucking stitches!!!*

Original Dub wrote:

Mase wrote:

Original Dub wrote:Sky "sources":

Fee for Pogba will be £89m

And there you have it. If it was us signing him, those same sources would have come up with £189m

Bullshit.

That may be the fee, but then you've got the £28 million to his agent on top of that. Won't mention that will they. Pricks!

Exactly

Have they deducted the fee they originally received for him though?...its a significant sum ;)

It is fucking ridiculous...

Although Chelsea look to be about to do something similar with Lukaku. And they already did it on a smaller scale with Matic.

Original Dub wrote:It is fucking ridiculous...

Although Chelsea look to be about to do something similar with Lukaku. And they already did it on a smaller scale with Matic.

The clubs have too much money now...I know its not mine so why should i care but its getting silly

its "football nowadays" when man utd spend 100 million on a player (noone reporting the agent fee of course)
makes you sick really

There are positives to this. It gives a ready-made riposte to anyone moaning about our spending for start.

I have seen total costs of £170M quoted so the media is not all Raggy.

Plus I don't really think we have any right to pontificate about high transfer spending to be honest. let's just quietly bring in players, especially a CB - no one will notice 50M quid now

Why do we have this lack of consistency in reporting? Surely the fees paid are published by the clubs, so when your national news agency in the BBC constantly under play the fees paid by some clubs, but massively over exaggerate the fees paid by other, it's fucking irritating! They have the information, they just choose to report it in a twisted way. See Martial and Sterling last year.

Also interesting that the main article on the BBC includes a video that is Pogba explaining why the left and felt disrespected by them. Content not working, please try again later. Move along, nothing to see here, please watch all the positive content and disregard anything negative.

sidSmith wrote:Why do we have this lack of consistency in reporting? Surely the fees paid are published by the clubs, so when your national news agency in the BBC constantly under play the fees paid by some clubs, but massively over exaggerate the fees paid by other, it's fucking irritating! They have the information, they just choose to report it in a twisted way. See Martial and Sterling last year.

Also interesting that the main article on the BBC includes a video that is Pogba explaining why the left and felt disrespected by them. Content not working, please try again later. Move along, nothing to see here, please watch all the positive content and disregard anything negative.

Agree with you on that mate, and see also the "Is Stones worth 47.2M?" page v camelgob on why pogba definitely is. To be fair, the article is generally positive.

However the pogba interview is working for me. Try this link.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/27245867

The scum need to quit social media. Embarrassing:





The replies are great though:

"A dabing Moussa Sissoko"

"Matuidi with a shit haircut tbh"

"100m for a french James Milner"

john@staustell wrote:There are positives to this. It gives a ready-made riposte to anyone moaning about our spending for start.

I have seen total costs of £170M quoted so the media is not all Raggy.

Plus I don't really think we have any right to pontificate about high transfer spending to be honest. let's just quietly bring in players, especially a CB - no one will notice 50M quid now

Another positive ..........

Man Utd buying the Europa League !

Wankers ! :-D

Based on the shit they come out with this wouldn't be a bad idea.

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