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Mane ‘greed’ and ‘averageness’
Had to wait for a few days for all the national football emails to thin out – do people honestly enjoy the slow, meandering boring football that national level always conjures up? And I don’t just mean England. ALL national football is dull.
Anyway let’s talk about greed.
Pogba has always been an average player and now that he’s actually leaving United it seems others are beginning to agree. I watched juve a lot during his time there and said when united first bought him back that I didn’t think he’d Do well. At juve he was basically told to stand on the edge of the box and shoot whenever the ball came to him. No pressing, no defending etc.
Why united paid him so much I’ll never know. Why they offered him a bigger better contract when he publicly said he wanted to leave is a bigger mystery. He should been allowed to leave a long time ago. Of course he doesn’t mind if he stays on bigger wages and never plays – he’s still being paid. Rarely have I seen a player so happy to sit on the sidelines and so unhappy to actually strap on his boots. Because it was always about the money.
Which brings me onto another player who is leaving because of money. Mane. You might say he deserves that money for his stonking season. I’d counter that by saying for the year and a half prior he was pretty poor. Rarely defended, constantly ran down blind alleys, ALWAYS falling over and crucially missing tons of easy chances. In truth aside from his first two years and last year he’s been at best average for huge chunks of his time. He also failed to score in three cup finals too.
Now I’m not hating on mane because he’s leaving, I’m fine with any players leaving, there will always be another great player and if they’re happier elsewhere go forth. Players aren’t fans. to them the club is an employer, I can respect that. But I imagine if mane wasn’t moving this summer we probably would have seen another abject season of averageness. Like many players nearing the end of a contract he was putting the effort in not for his current club but to woo a new one.
What annoys me is the whole time he claimed it wasn’t about money and was some intangible unwanted feeling. But then it turns out he wanted a 100% payrise. And got his big money contract at Bayern and the 400k was…
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