The Curious Case Of Paul Pogba 

Hit the nail on the head there mate

Agree i like it

Iconic in the name certainly does justice.

Thanks, but there's NothingToSeeHere.

And we all read your comment, in his voice. 😂

alot younger than i expected. i thought he’d be a 60 year old man with a huge grey beard since he knows alot about football from past eras, lol. excellent content young man!

Problem is Pogba trains hard, doesn't drink, Smoke or go Clubbing. Yet people expect him to do what nobody else in the history of football has done. Dude has never played with world class players in their prime besides De gea at Manchester United and has been used as a Utility man instead because of all the holes the team has

That won't happen with Pogba. Way too laid back. Is quick to blame other factors than take responsibility. If he goes to PSG, it's going to be hilarious watching him, Messi, Neymar and Mbappe leave all the donkey work to the rest of the team. It'll be unsustainable and he'll be the first to be dropped because his stats have never been stellar. Primarily because he just doesn't have 90 minutes in him. Always fades in games. I'll be glad when he leaves because nothing encapsulates the Woodward era more than Pogba. All fancy flicks, no commitment. Not good enough off the ball to be a quality midfielder. Not aggressive, hungry or clinical enough to be a quality wide/attacking player.

Pogba played double pivot in France with Matuidi in LAM and kante on his right. That is why it worked there. Pogba can't force himself to play a real CDM role and I don't fault him for it. I'm sure he feels like he is slowly being drowned while playing in that position.

@@Twoyutes74 Exactly, when you have a player with that ability, you only play them in defensive positions when you have to ala France for a maximum of 7 games a tournament due to it being a "Knockout" competition which requires more caution. However people don't want to understand context, over the course of the season PP should be way more advanced no questions

@@femz6438 ah here. What a way to twist reality. The guy played a deep role at the weekend because two of our deeper midfielders were out and Rangnick wanted to rest Matic. Pogba has played utter shite wherever he has played. Play him more advanced, he's no better. He has played far more games in an advanced role so it's bogus to blame his poor form for United on playing deep. What is his position? Because he has played in an advanced left midfield role and he should be charged with negligence for the way he would leave Shaw exposed in the past. In that position he's a liability. It might go unpunished in Serie A or for France but the EPL is different. He's one of the worst players at the club off-the-ball. Doesn't track back. Certainly not fast enough. Guilty of taking too many touches when he does come back, capable of needlessly giving away possession. Reckless when it comes to tackling, like a giraffe on ice. All at 29. Plays like he's still 19.

I agree

Big comment 👏🏾

The defending of Ozil

@@maximusorbis2548 more like defensive work rate. He can defend but just doesn't need to 🇫🇷 Kante unlocks Pogba 🤷‍♂️

@@joesifa5235 he does not defend well with United and the guy above is massively overrating pogba even at France. Great player, but if pogba had all of those attributes he would be the greatest player in history

Juve have potential. Just get Pogba,a new winger,left back and center back(with some depth) and they would be really scary. The midfield already kind off resembles the 2015 one with locatelli playing the role of Pirlo and zakaria being Vidal. Just add Pogba again and it's all set lol

Myth

The only reason I wouldn't take Pogba back is his injury record, our medical staff is useless so the last thing we need is an injury prone player, Pogba is the exact type of player we need right now, but with his recent injuries I see another Ramsey fiasco incoming,

I doubt Juve go for him, they can't afford his wages. Juve is rebuilding with youth, but I think do have a place for a mentally strong veteran or two. Unfortunately 'mentally strong' is not how you would describe Paul Pogba's United stint.

Juve is rebuilding. They're stacked on striking roles with Vlahovic, Dybala and injured Chiesa, and very good defense, they only need a more organic midfield. If they manage to profit from Dybala or De Ligt who are going away most likely anyways, they may could take Pogba in expire. Then you would have Pogba, Locatelli and maybe Zakaria on the defensive, they would only need a very good fullback and new faces for substituting Chiellini and Bonucci, and you have a team that could win Serie A with no problems

Probably the right answer

I'm happy he left

Yes.. Same with Lukaku.. should've stayed at Inter

@@thealchemist6355 are you a Juventus fan?

@@cyberpokey big facts the English league is not for everybody even English players are now figuring it out and they're leaving to Germany and other leagues

Modric comes to mind as well 😁

Benzema has much better conditioning Pogba can't stay fit for more than 5 games at the minute.

He's already shining hard in the national team. For a few years now

Only a few exceptional one can perform at highest level for that age, pogba is not known for work rate. He will fail miserably.

I guess Pogba is content with this life. He is a multi millionaire with a beautiful model life. He has great cars and houses. I think getting paid enormous amount every week that most people can dream of earning in a year or 2 years (in developed countries) has made mediocrity creep up on him.

Kante is an all round player. He's miles ahead of Pogba while Pogba is an attention seeking player...

@@stnbch3025 Kante is miles better I never said that but playing with Kante gives pogba the ability to play how he wants to cus he knows he has Kante behind him to get the ball back and bring it back up.

when he played cam with herrera and prime matic behind him he was not surrounded with proper midfielders huh, herrera a guy who pockets prime hazard like he is nothing and I will not even talk about matic, while mctominay and free are horrible I will not accept them as a excuse for why pogba is horrible

It is his fault Chasing money over football with Raiola

He's a detriment to any team that doesn't have arguably the two best and most hard working midfielders around him because he doesn't know or try to defend. That's not a situational problem if the only place Pogba flourishes is when he's surrounded by world class talents who do the dirty work for him, that's a huge problem and makes him unplayable without the entire team being built around him. He's just been without the talent around him to do the work for him at United.

Arsenal were just fine before Aubameyang left. They gave tough fight to both City and Liverpool, him at Barca is not a success story yet and Arsenal is much better without him. Aubameyang and Pogba are at wrong place is pure excuse for there unprofessionalism and laziness.

@@Dipesh1234 what about bvb, auba was so good there

@@lowekycodm He was unprofessional there too. Both him and Dembele went on strike for there transfers. Rafael Varane returned as per schedule attended training till last date even when it was certain he was going to leave Infact Varane is an example of good player in bad place(beside Maguire) not Pogba and Auba.

@@Dipesh1234 can't belive u said maguire lol he's so bad

@@Dipesh1234 arsenal is miles behind liverpool and city aubameyang was horrible in the last 3 seasons but now he is amazing at barca but well see its good that he finally got a chance lets be real the arsenal invincibles are a team long gone

So he should come to chelsea

Luxury player is such a cynical term. So should the midfield be just three Vidals? Was Iniesta a luxury player? He needed to be flanked by Busquets and Xavi. The midfield is a balancing act whether you are two or three. Kroos Modric and Casemiro come to mind. Pogba's not a luxury player, Man Utd just spent £100 million or however much it was on a number 8 and decided to try to use him like Ji Sung Park.

Camavinga, Tchouameni, Pogba. The youngsters running and defensive work rate would make up for his, his passing could connect the attack. He should switch agent so Perez will sign him!

Another haircut 🙄

@@FootballIconic And a billion dabs per capita times dollars.

Try slowing the video down to .75!

@@danielshaw9979 i prefer to listen like that because may be easy in the future

Barcelona, stable?! 😂😂😂

Barcelona is the furthest thing from stable, looks like you haven't paid attention in the last 5 years

Barca fans are hilarious barely even finished a season he's already a great manager. Calm tf down

Juventus got a gem in Pogba. He stopped going to Dubai and started skiing during injuries. What a player

Talent gets beaten by hard work every time. Hard work being Something pogba hasn’t got.

Crazy three years Ronaldo was untouchable

@@hoze1235 Good times, they were.

Barcelona fan myself, and I'd love to see that. It was just that iconic.

Prime Kaka was a joy to watch. Pity injuries ruined him.

Raymar

Your entire statement is heavily flawed and heres why: 1. United built a team around pogba the first 2 years with Carrick, Herrera and pogba being the midfield 3 and look at the roles Carrick in the Pirlo role as a deep lying playmaker/Sitter, Herrera in the vidal role as a box to box destroyer and pogba as the advance playmaker with this you won 3 trophies then moved to matic in the pirlo role with fred as a back out for Herrera as a destroyer and finish second in the league to a super man city team and since them dropped building a team around pogba instead opting to built your team around average players such as rashford, maguire, Lukaku, McUseless and bruno which have won you nothing 2. United ignored mourinhos request to buy fabinho or brozovic or matuidi or veratti to replace carrick instead opting to use Fellani and mctalentless as a stop gap, then refused to buy Mili-savic or Seri or Ndombele to play next to pogba as a second creative outlook settling with telling jose to use lingard which set you back 4 years in squad development because your recruitment is shit 3. In the midfield of Kroos, Modric and Casemiro you have the same position casemiro is the destroyer, Kroos is the deep lying playmaker and modric is the advance playmaker its the same with Iniesta, Xavi and Busquets or Lampard, Makelele and Ballack or Gerrard, Xabi Alonso and lucas levia or Ozil, Xabi alonso and Khedeira or Zidane, Makelele and Gutti every one has a luxury player that you put players around to do the donkey work for 4. United have the most fraudulent player in your team called Spamnandez that you all think is creative you didnt need a bruno in your squad you needed a Brozovic but in the league where goals are the only thing that matters you won't see it that way cause based on 99% of your fanbase bruno is better than iniesta and zidane because he scores more goals 🙄 Look pogba failed because your club failed him if i replace pogba with Ozil, KDB, zidane, iniesta, modric or pirlo they'd all perform the same if not worse than pogba is that because their shit or is it the team built around them are below standard

Well said. I think back to when Kroos and Modric played behind James Rodriguez at Madrid and while in some games they were good, they were hard to watch in others cause Modric and Kroos aren't a reliable defensive duo. It wasn't until Casemrio started playing behind them that Madrid as a whole became much better and the likes of Modric and Kroos weren't dragged down and burdened with large defensive duties. With Pogba in defence, if you want him to position himself and cut out passing lanes, then he'll that job well and at times with United and France he would even recover the ball more than someone like Fred or Kante. But as we saw under Ole we defended with no structure and so much space to cover, and in THOSE scenarios Pogba isn't great (and neither is McFred even though they run around a lot)

Yeah, it definitely affected him and his time at United.

@@Browne7100 with which players?

@@Browne7100 and David Beckham is also a shit player just like Pogba

@@chelseachelsea572 mourinho was agreat manager but since inter he has gone down in man j he coudnt win prem or champions and in real well i suppose you could make the case since in that tine peps team was insanely superior you can see that by the amoung of trophies both teams won but the art of defense is not an strategy that works today just ask atleti

@@sebastian-dp9vq Mourinho won Premier league in 2015. Pragmatic football still have success, like Atleti you mentioned, who were champions of La Liga just last season. Also don’t forget that Conte’s and Tuchel’s style are respectively counter attacking and defensive, which were very similar to Mou’s. So it’s really not about tactical style. Mourinho’s lack of recent success are more about his own psychology (I’m a believer that what happened in Real broke him) which affects his man management results, not optimal recruitments, his own tactical mistakes, and at some cases, some bad luck from injuries.

United is the problem. Just to sign a manager it is taking ages.

United is a place that kills careers cause of bad club management. Pogba is lazy but even if he played at his best each game it doesn’t help nor motivate someone to know that you have Maguire in the back and Rashford up front compared to kimpembe and mbappe. United didn’t properly build around their stars as usual and wasted him

Exactly. I wouldn’t be surprised if he really bounced back at another club. He seems weighed down at United

Far from me to defend Man Utd as a club, but in juve and france he always had/has amazing players beside in in midfield (Pirlo, Vidal, Marchisio, Kante, Matuidi)

@DMo86 United has not given him the right resources mate... And what is this "English game" thing supposed to mean? How many midfielders switched from other leagues into the EPL did just fine? Adding to that Pogba's physicality, I'd put 95% of the blame on United

It already did

@@lexkanyima2195 he has not. He's made videos on Lineker, Guardiola as a player and Guardiolas Barcelona. Nothing on Cruyff so far other than mentioning him briefly in other videos

its more like all united's players are shit and pogba is surrounded by shit players

It would really be interesting to see where he would go this summer. I personally don't think PSG is going to be any different from man utd, if nothing changes, the likes of messi, neymar and di maria are relatively in the same case as pogba, for different reasons tho.

Because Matuidi and Kante is better than Fred and McTominay

Because international football is not as good as club football level.

he's basically the French version of Gareth bale

@@kushagrajain6644 bale is a winner dude... trophy after trophy... When was the last time pogba win anything for united

@@chelseachelsea572 stop

@@chelseachelsea572 disgraceful subhuman Chelsea fan

all great players in his position have played with a great 6 to shine brightest. He was still young when he came to united, he wasn't e al leader and united was trying to force him to be one. They should have surrounded him with great players and instead they gave him Fred and mctominay and they played him out of position

You’re drunk if u think tolisso is world class🤨🤨🤨

I'll try! Thanks :)

Sorry, but this is bullshit. Quality shines through, especially if you’re surrounded by dross. United might not get the best out of him, but he’s lazy, lacks discipline and appears to have little to no desire to win. He was jogging round the pitch and was dispossessed loads in the game against Liverpool.

lmao Manchester united is meme now

Facts

Did you watch him when he was still new?

Hard disagree. At Juventus he was pretty consistent with the occasional (but frequent) great game. He owned the position, no one could substitute him in his role, at least not without a quality drop.

@@leandro8897 I said that he has been far too inconsistent for the English Premier League. I appreciate that he was brilliant in Italy, hence why Man Utd spent all that money to bring him back. But that was in a different league, played at a different pace and he was surrounded by some fantastically gifted footballers, such as Pirlo, who allowed him to play to his strengths more of the time. But if you look at how he has played during his second spell with United, he has not performed consistently at the level that he can play at. He has had countless opportunities but he has never really capitalised on these. My observation was more about how his laid back attitude would always attract criticism in England if he didn't get results. A bit like Berbatov.

When he had more assists and goals than kdb you were quiet and he did this as a deep lying midfield

@@chelseachelsea572 your mum likes us tho

@@chelseachelsea572 bro, stop

@@chelseachelsea572 Chill the fuck out

@@opinionatortv6457 I was trying to say he plays well for France 🇫🇷 consistency so we know he can do that and that is because of someone dose the running for him and the France 🇫🇷 team and fans back him up.

He hasn’t and won’t

@@benk3716 lol dude

@@benk3716 he re-debuted for Juventus, had a decent game, and will more than likely shine for them again.... So I don't know what you're smokig💀💀

Cheers!

It’s too late now. Now Pogba has question marks over his club performances which makes fans wary about him, also nearing 30, and a history of controversy surrounding dressing room and club loyalty/ stability. I would be very surprised if Madrid board would even think about him now, I doubt it though. They have their eyes elsewhere now.

He'd struggle with the La Liga midfield battle. He looks slow and clunky when teams target him with the press and teams in La Liga are more ruthless at targeting weaknesses of the big teams. I can still remember Marcelo being isolated to the point he was dropped.

Was ?

@@VictorDurand-me5yu technically, yes. He has already lost his place to Donnarumma and might be heading out of PSG this summer. The man's still great no doubt but it'll be very hard for him to get consistent game time at a big club.

Unrealistic expectations from uneducated fans who had agenda towards him and was jealous because of the trophies and individual awards which he won

i seriously think he had the potential to be the best player in the world. I guess managers are supposed to get the best out of players and clearly Man U have had very poor managing, ownership and teamwork

Haha thanks

Then why he is limited

I think so too. I remember watching the few games that France played in the euros and it made me miss the time he was one of the best

True

Yep. Amazing technique and skill but very little idea of how to integrate that ability effectively. So many times I've watched him try flashy skills and lose the ball in dangerous areas of the pitch or try to take on too many players and lose the ball. He's incredibly wasteful and has not learned anything from his bad games.

@@ravecrab You've absolutely nailed it on the head there - he doesn't learn from his bad games. There's an element of narcissism in there, maybe because he's won a WC, but you are so right, he has never learned to better his game. So often he just rinses and repeats the same moves and gets found out, yet every now and then he luckily pulls off a worldy and all the critics suddenly jump on his bandwagon again. He's been found wanting so many times, I doubt there is much left in his future. Reminds me a bit of Anelka, although Anelka was arguably the better footballer, even if he was shocking under pressure

Exactly

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You could skate triple axles across that forehead!

Yep. Not hiding I'm a United fan

United haven't used pogba defensively for some time. Solskjaer used him either as the AM or as a CM, or as a hybrid LW with freedom to roam. Ultimately his lack of work rate let the side down, whether he was burdened with defensive roles or not. In a league where Liverpool and city star attacking players all work their socks off and dominate, he was always going to be found wanting because of his attitude and laziness.