This same Pogba played and excelled at the CM position for France at the 2018 mundial.
IIRC, he sat as double pivot with McTom in our first game against Chelsea this season.
Pogba's problem is never that he can't play as CM, he has played there effectively a few times for us and especially for France.
Fred is decent, but there's more to midfield play than just forming activity and doing eegun ori. I hope Fred keeps improving especially in areas like accurate passes and retaining possession while being pressed.
Ole knows best, he should try whatever pairing he wants and whoever falls short should simply make way for others. Either na Pogba or na Fred.
Lastly abeg, two out of Lingard, Mata and Perreira should prepare to leave, they've given us enough, make dem give us room to add quality bodies make the team balance.

Ravioli:


Fabrizio Romano reported recently that Partey is signing a new contract with Athletico Madrid. So where's the Arsenal link?

His father (Jacob Partey) confirmed the interest from arsenal yesterday.

My son's current club Atletico Madrid has a release clause in Partey's deal… this means that any club which shows interest in signing him must meet those demands,' Jacob Partey told SilverFM.

'So any team which meets Atletico's demand will be able to sign my son, and not specifically Arsenal.

'I always call my son and he is of age to decide on a move. I am ready to support his decision.'


He will prefer to stay at Ath. madrid than moving to Arsenal

Ravioli:


Naaa!! Ole chooses the players he wants. Then Ed negotiates for the acquisition of the player[s]. I thought this has been flogged off already.

Plan A......... Messi

Plan B........ Neymar

Plan C....... Hazard

Plan D....... Coutinho

This is how ED woodward works, instead of signing Plan A, he will end up signing plan C or plan D........( Van gaal, Mourinho and Moyes are victims)

Khaytunechi:
This same Pogba played and excelled at the CM position for France at the 2018 mundial.
IIRC, he sat as double pivot with McTom in our first game against Chelsea this season.
Pogba's problem is never that he can't play as CM, he has played there effectively a few times for us and especially for France.
Fred is decent, but there's more to midfield play than just forming activity and doing eegun ori. I hope Fred keeps improving especially in areas like accurate passes and retaining possession while being pressed.
Ole knows best, he should try whatever pairing he wants and whoever falls short should simply make way for others. Either na Pogba or na Fred.
Lastly abeg, two out of Lingard, Mata and Perreira should prepare to leave, they've given us enough, make dem give us room to add quality bodies make the team balance.

Pogba had matuidi and Kante with him in the midfield

Our first game was bad against Chelsea especially in the midfield. We were dominated and Chelsea was unlucky not to score at least 3 goals. We were all over the place in that match

eph12:

Pogba had matuidi and Kante with him in the midfield

Our first game was bad against Chelsea especially in the midfield. We were dominated and Chelsea was unlucky not to score at least 3 goals. We were all over the place in that match

Right, Chelsea dominated us but Pogba particularly created chances from that deep lying position. It was the first game of the season so I can excuse our being all over the place. I'm saying, Pogba can excel here playing CM with Bruno as AM.

Chrisus:


They have Rodri

A double pivot of Rodri and Partey will free De Bruyne to do even more damage up front and will likely see Fernandinho's role reduced to deputizing for Laporte.

Ravioli:


Sorry bros, you live in a cave..

They've all posted info about Sancho's deal about a month+ now.. I posted 'em immediately.

I follow all the reliable Journos on Twitter and Instagram. Go and make findings properly

Lol. So a month+ is recently to you? Well, recently to me is a week or less. Also, i also follow almost all reliable journalists on Twitter, IG, Reddit and none of them posted that nonsense you claimed they posted. If you are actually sure they posted it then take screenshots and show us here. I was actually trying to be civil and respectful so i even suggested that you might have been joking. But, it seems you want to do this the hard way.

Let's make this interesting. If you can actually post screenshots from any of those journos twitter or IG about any agreed fee for Sancho, then i will go back to my "cave" and i won't post here anymore. But if you can't post screenshots then you will never post here anymore. Agreed?

You also posted that lie about VDB to Man U being a done deal, you even put imaginary figures. Ahan, broda why you lying, why you always lying? oh my god! Stop bleeping lying!

Khaytunechi:


Right, Chelsea dominated us but Pogba particularly created chances from that deep lying position. It was the first game of the season so I can excuse our being all over the place. I'm saying, Pogba can excel here playing CM with Bruno as AM.

Things would have turned differently if Chelsea had scored. We won't remember that Pogba created chances but we would have been talking about how Chelsea midfield had free pass in the middle. We would have blamed Pogba as usual. If we allow teams to dominate us like that, we won't always be lucky. And we have been able to create chances and score goals in Pogba's absence against top teams while limiting their chances against us. Against Chelsea, they had so many chances to score against us which is bad for any team

Expert17:


Plan A......... Messi

Plan B........ Neymar

Plan C....... Hazard

Plan D....... Coutinho

This is how ED woodward works, instead of signing Plan A, he will end up signing plan C or plan D........( Van gaal, Mourinho and Moyes are victims)

I fail to see how this is something to lampoon Ed over.

If every team could get their first choice for each role then we'd see a team including Messi, Mbappe, Ronaldo etc

Those contingencies are drawn up because a dream team only exists in Dreamland.

Drawing up backup plans is a standard practice for any team.

See all the attempts on goal against us in the first leg. We were lucky

eph12: See all the attempts on goal against us in the first leg. We were lucky

Last last, they carry ball go house while we carried 3 points

eph12:

Things would have turned differently if Chelsea had scored. We won't remember that Pogba created chances but we would have been talking about how Chelsea midfield had free pass in the middle. We would have blamed Pogba as usual. If we allow teams to dominate us like that, we won't always be lucky. And we have been able to create chances and score goals in Pogba's absence against top teams while limiting their chances against us. Against Chelsea, they had so many chances to score against us which is bad for any team

Let's not act like it's until Bruno and Ighalo came in January that we started building this positive momentum that restored peace to this thread.

Pogba was not the problem, majority of the lad were off form but as usual, he always takes majority of the blame after Ole. Let's see Pogba play now that we have a quality AM in front of him and not Lingard/Pereira or a washed up Mata. Let's see Pogba play now that Fred looks to have found his footing, now that Martial is back to something close to his form when he first got here and now that Rashford is back...

DeadPresidents:


I fail to see how this is something to lampoon Ed over.

If every team could get their first choice for each role then we'd see a team including Messi, Mbappe, Ronaldo etc

Those contingencies are drawn up because a dream team only exists in Dreamland.

Drawing up backup plans is a standard practice for any team.

At least get 5/10 right in transfer.

Instead of Kross, Thiago or Fabregas we signed Fellaini etc............

We are not asking for Mbappe, Messi and Ronaldo.

DeadPresidents:


Last last, they carry ball go house while we carried 3 points

So that next time when we're dominated like that and we lose, you will be back here complaining abi?

patrickmuf:
Let's not act like it's until Bruno and Ighalo came in January that we started building this positive momentum that restored peace to this thread.

Pogba was not the problem, majority of the lad were off form but as usual, he always takes majority of the blame after Ole. Let's see Pogba play now that we have a quality AM in front of him and not Lingard/Pereira or a washed up Mata. Let's see Pogba play now that Fred looks to have found his footing, now that Martial is back to something close to his form when he first got here and now that Rashford is back...

We had issues creating chances because we were playing Perreira and Lingard. Pogba should have been the one in that position, meaning he'll have two of Matic, Fred and Tom behind him. This has been my point since. We were not being dominated

With all this Covid 19...wahala.
We may just get to keep pogba nobody get him money now...
Pogba and Bruno for that midfield could be the beginning of something wonderful..

patrickmuf:
A double pivot of Rodri and Partey will free De Bruyne to do even more damage up front and will likely see Fernandinho's role reduced to deputizing for Laporte.

Pep's tactics requires two attacking midfielders, not one.

If Partey joins City, Rodri will spend a good time on the bench

sylvalord:
Lol. So a month+ is recently to you? Well, recently to me is a week or less. Also, i also follow almost all reliable journalists on Twitter, IG, Reddit and none of them posted that nonsense you claimed they posted. If you are actually sure they posted it then take screenshots and show us here. I was actually trying to be civil and respectful so i even suggested that you might have been joking. But, it seems you want to do this the hard way.

Let's make this interesting. If you can actually post screenshots from any of those journos twitter or IG about any agreed fee for Sancho, then i will go back to my "cave" and i won't post here anymore. But if you can't post screenshots then you will never post here anymore. Agreed?

You also posted that lie about VDB to Man U being a done deal, you even put imaginary figures. Ahan, broda why you lying, why you always lying? oh my god! Stop bleeping lying!

k

handelex:
You never know

Cos you dream a lot.

Expert17:


At least get 5/10 right in transfer.

Instead of Kross, Thiago or Fabregas we signed Fellaini etc............

We are not asking for Mbappe, Messi and Ronaldo.

Moyes got Fellaini (his choice actually), and his most of his other targets were quite unrealistic.

LVG cancelled Toni Kroos transfer.

Major problem was every club knew how desperate United were for players, coupled with the news about English clubs making so much money, so negotiations were tough.

PSG didn't aid things when they got Neymar for a whooping $350m. That totally changed the market valuation of players.

This place is back to life sha.

GloryIsaac:


Moyes got Fellaini (his choice actually)

LVG cancelled Toni Kroos transfer.

Major problem was every club knew how desperate United were for players, coupled with the news about English clubs making so much money, so negotiations were tough.

PSG didn't aid things when they got Neymar for a whooping $350m. That totally changed the market valuation of players.

Fellaini wasn't the first choice.............the main target was Kroos or Fabregas, we signed Fellaini last day of transfer

Woodward didn't start well, but i can see some positive change ( refusing to sign Haaland, based on Raiola demands )

odizeey:
This place is back to life sha.

dead bones shall rise again

eph12:
See all the attempts on goal against us in the first leg. We were lucky

Thanda will still fire you scummite for saying the truth.

Expert17:


Fellaini wasn't the first choice.............the main target was Kroos or Fabregas, we signed Fellaini last day of transfer

Woodward didn't start well, but i can see some positive change ( refusing to sign Haaland, based on Raiola demands )

Kroos was to join the 2nd season.. and targeting Fabregas in 2014 was completely unrealistic.

Moyes even wanted Bale, and Ronaldo smh

Transfer business didn’t go really well pre-OGS, but Moyes demands were something else totally.

Man probably felt joining United had automatically given him instant access to superstar players.

Imagine demanding for Bale, Fabregas and Thiago in one transfer summer

And he wanted Fellaini and Leighton Baines to join him from Everton..

iheanyi40:
dead bones shall rise again

eph12:
See all the attempts on goal against us in the first leg. We were lucky

this has to be the first time I hear someone say a team was lucky to win 4-0. are you sure you are not trolling?

SIRcumalot:
With all this Covid 19...wahala.
We may just get to keep pogba nobody get him money now...
Pogba and Bruno for that midfield could be the beginning of something wonderful..

Make them play first.....

eph12:

Things would have turned differently if Chelsea had scored. We won't remember that Pogba created chances but we would have been talking about how Chelsea midfield had free pass in the middle. We would have blamed Pogba as usual. If we allow teams to dominate us like that, we won't always be lucky. And we have been able to create chances and score goals in Pogba's absence against top teams while limiting their chances against us. Against Chelsea, they had so many chances to score against us which is bad for any team

Us getting dominated shouldn't be on Pogba alone, chief. I'm just saying he can play, and flourish as a CM for us.

ChristineC:
this has to be the first time I hear someone say a team was lucky to win 4-0. are you sure you are not trolling?

First time ke? Nah that's not true. You've been around football long enough to have seen this happen a couple of times.