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Kicking the pog
Mediawatch suspected it when we read the last pages on Tuesday. That if Manchester United failed in Leipzig against a team they previously beat 5-0, a whole truckload of blame would end up at the feet of Paul Pogba. Step forward Neil Custis in Sun, whose ‘big game verdict’ is nothing short, just a long letter of excuse for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. How could he reasonably be expected to manage Manchester United to victory after * check the notes * an agent said his player wanted to leave the club?
“I have no doubt, Paul Pogba played a role in this result.”
Yes, he scored the goal that returned it to 3-2.
Custis then explains that Pogba “popped United’s bubble on the eve of this massive match” and that Solskjaer’s Manchester United was “on the move” and “full of confidence” before the “narrative changed.”
All of which is strange because we don’t remember any antics by Pogba before the disaster in Istanbul or last week’s loss to PSG. It’s almost as if this is a Manchester United team and manager who can screw things up quite easily.
Suddenly, it was all about Pogba.
“The player, sitting among his friends and teammates on the plane to Leipzig, had already planted a seed of destruction.”
So since Aaron Wan-Bissaka didn’t look over his shoulder to see Angelino on the first goal, was he thinking of Pogba?
Was she still thinking about him ten minutes later when she gave the same player acres of space?
Were Harry Maguire and David De Gea pondering Pogba when they combined to gift Leipzig a third goal?
Bruno Fernandes consumed himself thinking about the French while repeatedly giving away the ball?
Were Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood thinking about the narrative since they repeatedly failed to match?
Was he praying in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s mind when he decided that the only way to change the course of this game was to repeatedly change the left side of his defense?
Or is it all a bunch of nonsense designed to excuse the Manchester United manager and all the players he has defended?
Kicking the pog again
At Daily mailChris Wheeler also couldn’t resist writing about Pogba, with the headline stating that ‘POGBA FOLLOWS THE TROUBLE’ even as the writer grudgingly admits that ‘Pogba really should escape much of the blame for United’s failed campaign in the League. of Champions’.
And yet that didn’t stop Wheeler from starting his supposed Champions League color piece with a story about Pogba and a Rolls-Royce before claiming that United’s’ biggest game of the season (was) starting low. another dark cloud created by Pogba and his agent verbally incontinence. ‘.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is presumably why Manchester United was a bit of shit.
Speaking of narrative
Find the difference, by the way, between the last page of Sun – leading to Paul Scholes’ comments about David De Gea being a ‘bottler’ – and the last page of the Daily mirror, leading Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to take the blame. And then ask yourself which newspaper employed Manchester United PR man Neil Ashton until early 2020.
Slam funk
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had this to say about his Manchester United players after the defeat in Leipzig:
“We started too late. Great spirit and I’m back again but different from the Premier League. You can’t give a team a three-goal lead and expect it to come back.
“Too late. Unfortunate towards the end. I thought the character and the effort were there. I thought I was at the end.
“We weren’t good enough. In a difficult group, of course, we started very well in this group, but the big loss for us was the loss outside of Istanbul.
“That’s the one we look back on and lost the points we should have had. Today we were close, we knew we had to defend centers and balls in the area but we couldn’t clear them ”.
So of course …
‘Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer punches the players after RB Leipzig’s defeat in the Champions League’ (Quick)
For the love of God. The man couldn’t have a tequila.
Question of the day
‘Ole Gunnar Solskjaer repeated Louis van Gaal’s mistake for Manchester United vs RB Leipzig’ – Manchester evening news.
Did you bring Nick Powell?
Rule the world
In a sea of Pogba: only the 17 mentions in the Mirror football homepage: they hit the trash with this title:
‘Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s earnings show Manchester United have broken Sir Alex Ferguson’s rule’
The history? That Solskjaer earns less than some of his players, which doesn’t really seem like a story at all. Of course, he earns less than some of his players; we’d be absolutely in awe if that wasn’t the case. Apprenticeships are good learning opportunities, but they don’t pay very well.
The ‘Sir Alex Ferguson rule’ was that no Manchester United player earned more than Sir Alex Ferguson. You cannot “break” a rule long after the man is gone.
It’s just a little less misleading than ‘Paul Pogba posts an Instagram update after Mino Raiola confirms that he wants to leave Man Utd’ when ‘Instagram Update’ = generic and nondescript images.
Instead we love Angelino
What a rejection mate, I decided to leave. Respect the headline.
– Angelino (@ angel_tasende69) December 9, 2020
ERM
Find the man who recently published a book on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: The Red Apprentice.
Those who say that Ole was wrong in training: ERM: the same one who educated PSG, far away, for EG: pic.twitter.com/9Dqm5t6twt
– jamie jackson (@JamieJackson___) December 9, 2020
Imagine working for The Guardian and think that there should be no difference in approach for different oppositions and different scenarios. Imagine working for The Guardian and using gifs.
Recommended reading of the day
Mark Critchley on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Manchester United
Barney ronay on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Manchester United
Harry De Cosomo on working in the disabled soccer media
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