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joeace2020:
Honestly that dude should hide in shame....Any coach coming in finds it difficult to know how rooney will figure in their team...mourinho said 9 and a half...Thats so funny

9 and half is a new term used for a second striker when you really want to distinguish between an attacking midfielder and a second striker. Both are ordinarily number 10s.

Not food poison. Fell while surfing.

#BREAKING Henrikh Mkhitaryan is undergoing his medical with Manchester United.

kokaneprodigy:
It should be non-manure epl players are very creative.

How many EPL trophies does your team have? You are not qualified to post here.

Most Successful Dribbles

Highest Dribbles

SUCCESSFUL DRIBBLES

1. Hazard 24
2. Bale 20
3. Payet 15
4. Dexler 12
5. Kucker 12
6. Coman 12
7. Vladimir 12
8. Jacub 11
9. Ozil 11
10. Iniesta 10
11. Walker 10
12. Pogba 10

Best in Chances Created

Players with over 200 minutes played

Minutes per chances created

Payet 18 minutes.

Kevin De Bruyne 19.6 minutes

David Silva every 25.7 mins

Hazard 27.6 mins

Ozil 28.2

Rooney 28.8

Rakiti 29.2

Ramsey 29.9

Sturridge 30.1

EPL players are very creative.

Even if Mata is leaving Manchester United, why going to Everton? Can't he play for Tottenham? Or one of the top four teams in Germany or Spain?

Mata to Everton is very odd news.

afrodoc2:
Pogba is not and will never be worth 100m pounds. Unless he comes and start scoring at a Cronaldo/Messi rate paying more than 60m pounds for any midfielder is daylight robbery.

Cronaldo?

Manchester United have moved a step closer to making Paul Pogba the first £100million footballer by telling his club Juventus they will pay a world-record transfer fee for the 23-year-old French superstar.

Four years after losing Pogba for nothing, United are prepared to break the bank to back their new manager Jose Mourinho, who will be unveiled in front of the world's media on Tuesday.

Juventus have demanded a nine-figure sum for their talisman which has scared off United's rivals Real Madrid, PSG and Manchester City.
But the Old Trafford club – who are less affected by financial fairplay rules because of their huge commercial revenues – are prepared to pay a price that will smash the £86m paid by Real Madrid for Gareth Bale in 2013, and hand Pogba £250,000 a week.

Pogba's father has stated that his son wants to play in a 'better league' than Serie A and agent Mino Raiola, who also represents Ibrahimovic, is trying to negotiate a deal.

Fassou Antoine Pogba is quoted as saying by AS: “What we want is that he plays in a better League, he’ll decide which team he’s going to play for.”

His agent Mino Raiola said: "Paul has to grow. He's at Juve now, so any transfer must be run past Juventus."

[Source: Daily Mail, Record, M.E.N, AS] #MUFC #Pogba

#BREAKING Juan Mata is expected to sign for Everton in a deal worth €25m
[via Infosport+]
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Why are we always selling at a loss?

The father of Hirving Lozano confirms he will join Manchester United from Pachuca after the Olympics.

[via @MatteoPedrosi]

chrisley024:
O boy! See that acrobatic defending

Italians defend with their lives.

Old pic.

#Breaking Henrikh Mkhitaryan has arrived at Manchester Airport.

^^^
Saw that news flash now

lekkie073:
I use 30 because pogba is two goals shy of 30
If u watch juvetus matches in d last two seasons u would know dat he cannot be compared to oliseh. U can only do dat because u see him very not functioning as expected for france, but even players like muller, ronaldo, too r not functioning as expected for their respective teams...
na u first compare am to pogba na

Ok. Let me stand behind you since you are a serious Italian League follower.

lekkie073:
oliseh scored 18league goals in his entire career....he scored 2 goals for Nigeria in 54 games


a young pogba is already on 28 league goals and 5 goals for France.....


so u see the difference between them? oliseh is average at d highlight of his career...

Oliseh was a DM. You compare his stat with Roy Kean, Makalele, Mikel Obi, Michael Carrick, Busquet.

lekkie073:
If oliseh played today he would have scored 30 goals because dem Don increase the lenght and height of the goalpost abi

rubbish statement
respect urself and desist from saying such silly talk again or else

Lol

But did Pogba score 30 goals? Where 30 goals pass enter the talk?

E be like say you believe in Pogba well well. So we go follow you for back.

lekkie073:
a player being courted by the biggest clubs in the world is not better than oliseh?
if u say the price is too high for a midfielder, it is understandable.
but saying he is an average footballer? abeg stop dat! if Madrid or barca buy am now and dem begin dey use d guy kill teams una go begin dey another story

Oliseh was not average na.

If Oliseh played today, he would be in a big club because it looks like there are no quality midfielders.

chrisley024:
Too expensive and his football lacks intelligence.

It looks like there is a dearth of talents in modern football. Particularly in midfield.

There was a time the world had Zidane, Pirlo, Scholes, Keane, Edgar Davids, Veira, Lampard, Gerald, Ballack, Redondo.


Pogba doesn't look better than Sunday Oliseh. At least for now.

chrisley024:
Abeg, let it not work out or be true

So who do you suggest?

I am confused about Pogba. I have never been his fan since he left Manchester United. But what if the comes in and shines?

JayKayMaybachz:
£80 Million bid for who!!?

Pogba

#BREAKING Manchester United have reportedly made an £80m (€95.75m) offer for Paul Pogba. Juventus have an asking price of around £90m (€107m).

[Source: Telegraph, Star]

#CONFIRMED Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be in Manchester tomorrow for a photoshoot and finalise his move.
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#BREAKING Henrikh Mkhitaryan to Manchester United is done and he has already found a house in Manchester.

[via @DiMarzio]

Lana1:
U're the one who watches ur TV inside out. But am not surprised at ur response. Even when Rooney was terrible against Swansea last season, u claimed he wasn't getting enough service from the midfield even after he was provided with two passes from midfield that played him 1-on-1 with the keeper. So why should i be surprised now??
U need to get off Rooney's dîck. Maybe go for a Deliverance, Baptism, Annointing......whatever.

Abeg carry ur sef comot my mention if u no get better thing talk...

I don't even remember the Swansea incidence. What had has that got to do with now?

Rooney was MOTM against Russia. One of the best against Wales. Even from midfield he provided goal threat better than Kane and Ali in the first two matches. So I don't get you.

Since Rooney came from injury, he has excelled in midfield, except his last match. He did absolutely well in Wembley against Everton, and also did well in the other games. U dey vex for nothing.

Rooney deserves what place after which performance

Ok.....

Who was the MOTM in their first match? He also was one of the best in the second before he got tested.

Is your TV upside down?

AdeLaNa1:
He should just pack his load after nxt season and be on his way to a retirement home far away from United. I looked at his performance yesterday and i became worried. If that's the sort of Performance we should be expecting nxt season, then wahala dey o.
Henderson that should ve started yesterday was left out bcoz Rooney must always play.

This season, he should just score all the goals he needs to becoming United's all time highest goal scorer and make way for better players to come into the team

Herdenson was behind Wilshere in the pecking order. The only problem is that Rooney was kept on too late. I also think Rooney deserves his place after his previous performance.

Contrary to what you people think, I don't think we are going to see a scenario where Rooney must play. The players that are coming will not sit on the bench.

Rooney should train hard for his own sake. If possible, let him go to Kenyan Mountain to revive his speed and athleticism. Lol

parrotibaba:
Elampiro Nani don go valencia

May be we were not interested. Goodluck to him.

SIRcumalot:
I wasn't clear enough concerning Ali,I meant best available player for that position based on league performance.
Ali and Kane most of these guys tournament performance didn't show the kain form them take enter.
e no be like say Iceland or Slovakia or Wales even,is suddenly better than England.

maybe Ali go reconsider the super eagles job ? if the outcome of this disgrace be that I dey okay.

Yes, Hodgson selected players based on merit (league performance). He was also under pressure from the press who also felt these guys deserve to start. Even Alan Shearer, in April, said Kane should be the first name on the list and must start.

Kane did not live up to his rating. The first good attempt at goal he made was against Iceland. Vardy appeared to have provided better movement in the time he played. His headers were always weak and wayward.

But truly, Kane was mostly a shadow of Rooney when they played together in attack last year. I think there is tournament experience. Kane and Ali didn't have that.

SIRcumalot:
I never trust all this media stuff who be the source?
dele Alli so far has been England best "10" plus he has a better understanding of Kane than Rooney ever will.
I don't think that was England problem.
I have only seen one half of the Wales England game all euros so take this for what it is worth.
Hodgson selection or tactics isn't the problem enough of these guy's just didn't play well.

Source: Skysports.

The same skysports HQ that favoured some of these players criticised here, so I don't think it is biased.

Was Ali there when they played qualifiers? Ali had two bad games against Russia and Wales, in my opinion. Yesterday, he was not really there either.

The England front was a shadow if itself when compared to qualifiers. No activities, no pace, no mature movement and quality final balls. England were trying to be technical but that is not their game, and Ali and Kane were too young to enforce that. May be in two years, they could dominate. If anyone saw all the games since world cup till now, it will be obvious Rooney still has sense than these guys, except he had lost pace.

Previously, they had Miller, Sterling, Townsend, Walcott, Chamberlain, Welbeck who could play with pace and power (lol), unfortunately, they were not selected/available to play the kind of football they were used to.

We could see the impact of Rashford and Vardy. That is England's game.

^^^


SMH. 'the players doubted the (Hodgson's) half time tactical acumen to turn things around.

I also felt Rooney should have been used in the number 10 or one of the forward roles he played in the qualifiers and friendlies, either he swims or sinks there. But there was pressure from the press and some legends to start Alli and Kane. But Hodgson could still have accommodated the three of them as he did against France in friendly when Rooney, Ali and Sterling played behind Kane in fluid attacking midfield.

#BREAKING Dortmund CEO Karl-Hans Watzke has confirmed to German website Der Westen that United have bid for Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

"We now have a different starting position, Manchester United’s offer has significantly improved. With such a decision we have to adhere to several strict aspects. I have already contacted the appropriate people and then the management will decide that, namely at the weekend, definitely"