29 Oct 2016 19:52:55
Feels like the season is already slipping away with respect to the league - it just feels like, as with the past few seasons - we are peripheral and not in contention.

As always it feels the tempo is too slow, not enough urgency. Pretty much same as past few seasons. and please don't give me it was Heaton playing a blinder, he was very good, but it was at home and Burnley are Championship standard. Very poor result. Winners win these games.

A lot of areas where it felt we were progressing have stalled. Defence looks suspect - the Chelsea game (and I don't think Chelsea will challenge) summed it up - lacks a leader with a brain.

Up front, it's either an old warhorse in Zlatan or young pacey inexperienced options, with Rooney a shadow of himself.

Midfield - Pogba, please show the f**k up.
Felaini - please sell him, same with Depay. Still no Carrick?
Mata our best player today subbed off?

Just don't see any possibility in the league and CL will be tough.

It is what it is, we are just not good enough.

1.) 29 Oct 2016
29 Oct 2016 20:06:41
We should have won, but if you think pogba didn't show up today you're wrong. He ran, he passed long, he passed short, he created chances, his link up play was excellent, he even tackled well.
I think you've just seen the result and based everything on that.

2.) 29 Oct 2016
29 Oct 2016 20:14:46
No I watched it, so please enough being a patronising best game Pogba has played I'd say, but still miles short of what I expect from a top tier midfielder. We spent 90million on him so I judge him on that expectation, if you don't then why exactly did we buy him?

3.) 29 Oct 2016
29 Oct 2016 20:28:35
Sorry to come off as patronizing. I wasn't trying to be. But you are simply wrong. Really, our midfield trio was excellent to say the least. Mata, hererra and pogba were the reason we were so dominant. If anything our front three were poor, all for different reasons.

The truth is if we'd put 5 past them, we'd be hear talking about how great everyone was. Poor pogba, The guy just can't win. He literally did everything today. If someone like artuto vidal put on such a show, everybody put be raving on about him.

4.) 29 Oct 2016
29 Oct 2016 20:56:53
See that's the problem. The fee I don't care about, but the club obviously felt he was a game changer type player to justify the fee. He is not performing like a game changing midfielder.
We are no better, relatively speaking than the past few seasons, and now on our 3rd manager.
The tempo, the urgency and the will to win is sorely lacking.
No disrespect to Burnley, but they are a Championship team full of Championship (at best) players. It wasn't Man City, Barca, Bayern. Marney, Mee. so we need to be honest about what os wrong before we can fix it. Mata, Herrera and Pogba should look good against this level of opposition.
If it was a one off performance, fine, it's football, and on any given day. but this has been the norm since SAF left and the winners at the club moved on / retired.
This team are not contenders, and that is what is hard to accept, otherwise, you become Liverpool.

5.) 29 Oct 2016
29 Oct 2016 23:12:15
Pogba was fantastic today. Easily his best performance.

6.) 30 Oct 2016
30 Oct 2016 01:48:07
Pogba was fantastic by the standards he has set himself since re-signing. On any other yard stick he was simply average, against a very poor Burnley side.

7.) 30 Oct 2016
30 Oct 2016 02:06:33
Also these are pogba's stats for today
90 minutes played
- 6 chances created
- 4 take ons
- 6 ball recoveries
- 6 shots
- 86/ 97 passes completed

If that isn't good enough then you have some ridiculously high standards which no player is going to meet.

8.) 30 Oct 2016
30 Oct 2016 01:43:44
Scotbos but that is bs, if yesterday was like how it has been since fergie left then you haven't watched the 3 seasons or this season, we created chance after chance but couldn't score. We had 37 shots highest since some 2004 game, we hit the post twice and their keeper turned into a monster, so i have no clue where you seem to be getting your opinion from and that is true for most of our games, we have missed big chances every game, barring watford and Chelsea we have played decent football. We deserved a point against city, should have won against stoke and burnley all cases zlatan let us down.

Now onto pogba, people have this wierd notion about him, he isn't scholes or gerrard or someone who will take control of the game and dictate the game, he is some one who will always be in and out of the game but will come up with moments of brilliance he did that yesterday, created 3-4 chances not his fault strikers couldn't finish.