The Mailbox defends Sadio Mane’s decision to swap Liverpool for Bayern while comparing his conduct to Paul Pogba’s behaviour.
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Pog-mess
Football is a game of opinions. Sometimes your opinion will turn out to be spot on, most of the time you will be made to look foolish. For balance, before I get to the foolish parts, I bet a mate when Ronaldo first signed for us that he would win the Ballon d’Or (Ronnie, not my mate). It came to pass, and I like to dine out on this from time to time with a zealous smugness that would not be underserving of a gentle slap in the chops.
Which brings me to Pogba. I bestowed the same privilege onto him when he re-signed by boldly claiming he would be the first midfielder since Kaka to win the balloon door. I often blindly and stubbornly defended him, even on these hallowed pages. For the record, and again for balance, he had some good games for us and clearly is extremely talented. But by god he didn’t look arsed most of the time. I’m all for footballers enjoying the game like they are playing in their local park, but not to the point of looking like they have just had a pint and some pork scratchings at halftime. So thanks for the memories Paul, don’t let the d’Or hit you on the way out.
And while I am in the zone of self-depreciation, I wrote a mail early on last season about Liverpool’s declining attacking stats based on their goals to expected goals ratio over the previous 3 seasons. It was slightly tongue in cheek to garner some responses but there was an element of truth to it. Pains me to say, but my word didn’t they ramp it up. Obviously some new blood helped when they signed Diaz but the old guard chipped in too. Salah looked a bit off at times yet still won the (joint) Golden Boot! Fair play, they really proved me wrong and so I have decided to leave soothsaying to the experts like Nostradamus and Russell Grant. That net spend chat is still nonsense though, just stop it – it doesn’t make anything more impressive, it’s mostly arbitrary rubbish based on incomplete information and nobody wants to hear it. Liverpool are the bestest ever at the transfer market, we all agree so let’s move on.
Garey (I predict this year is our year) Vance, MUFC
The Pogmentary proves Manchester United are well rid of Paul Pogba drama…
Mane, Mane, Mane…
So I had a lot of fun writing that headline in my head, while at the same time reading mails about him….
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