There's clearly talent there in certain areas of the game - has a very natural way of passing the ball and good range. Also his height means, as the pundits like to say, "he's an athlete" so he flatters to deceive. He has had enough "moments" for people to know that if he actually applied himself he could be a great player. But he doesn't have work ethic / drive to self-improve of the likes of Henderson.
It's somewhere between the Balotelli and Ozil situations for me. Ozil is a VERY gifted player, we saw him show that in the World Cup for Germany before Real Madrid went for him and we saw it with Madrid. Not "a runner" and as his career has gone on his attitude has been poor. But definitely talented. Then you get players like Balotelli who, on appearance at least, have "everything" for their role - Balotelli can shift (see his second goal against Germany in that Euro semi against Germany) and can (accurately) twat a ball, plus has the height/build of someone like Lewandowski, along with a good first touch - ON PAPER he has "everything" a striker in his mould should but unlike Ozil's peak, didn't show it anywhere near often enough.
Pogba is somewhere in-between the two. I don't rate him at all as a player, in just the same way I wouldn't rate Ozil (current version) or Balotelli (most of his career) because they lack the ethic of a Henderson, professionalism of a Milner or the consistency of a Wijnaldum. How I try to think of it is whether or not someone like Pogba or Balotelli would be a very good player if they had minds similar to those of the lads above us and to be fair to Pogba's natural talent if he truly applied himself I definitely think there's a decent player there.
Thankfully (for the likes of ourselves) a bit of natural talent is nowhere near enough to make a player. Takes drive and also takes (the right kind of) confidence. Look at someone like Torres. I appreciate the weight of his transfer fee to Chelsea was huge and injuries robbed him of much of what made him great, but a player with a different mind on them would still find ways to be really effective. Torres couldn't, though nobody would say he wasn't World Class in his day.
Pogba and his situation do make for a lot of point-and-laugh for us though. Which is the important thing
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