Manchester United's latest defeat in the Champions League has placed several of his players in the trigger and Pochettino as the eventual successor to Solsjkaer on the bench. Among those mentioned is Pogba, who has not raised his head since last season, who takes the cake. And there are several reports that emerge in England, echoed by the prestigious FourFourTwo magazine, which speak of United's intention to place the French midfielder on the market in 2021, next summer. Few dates ago, The Old Trafford entity made it official that it would extend Pogba's contract until 2022. It was a mere formality, since he could unilaterally extend it one year more than he had signed, and it was sung that he would do it, precisely, to be able to sell it.
The fact is that now the Pogba operation is posed in Low Cost mode, Who knows if even cheaper than Camavinga's could come out, and the name of Real Madrid rings out again. “Pogba wants to put himself under the command of Zinedine Zidane from next season and has managed to get Manchester United to lower its price to 60 million euros”, Calciomercato states, that although he does not have connections with United, he does have them with the player's representative, Mino Raiola.
Today the reality is that Real Madrid has ruled out the possibility of signing Pogba. On its roadmap is to undertake the Mbappé operation in 2021, its possible Camavinga and, finally, Haaland in 2022. But in light of events, Pogba is willing to rush his chances of being a coach for Zidane. He said it very recently.
“All players dream of playing for Real Madrid. Zidane's interest? Many things have been said about it. Yes, of course, all footballers would love to play for Real Madrid. It may be a dream. I am not going to deny that it would be a dream for me to play there one day. the strange SOS the one the French star commanded only a few weeks ago, once the market had closed. Who knows if, when the time comes (next summer), The operation is once again attractive for the white entity that, as you can read below, was very close to signing him on three occasions in recent times.
Summer 2016.
Real Madrid was negotiating with Juventus de Turin and with Raiola the incorporation of the player, that he was the man around whom Zidane wanted to build his first project that started from scratch at the helm of Madrid. At that time, although the player's desire was to wear the Madrid shirt, his high financial pretensions and those of his agent ruined the operation. The figures that United agreed on were later known through the Football Leaks papers released by Dier Spiegel: United paid Juve 105 million and Raiola 40 million. It was not strictly a commission, his percentage was signed by contract when he brought him free from United to Juve in the summer of 2012.
Summer 2019.
In that period there was a new attempt by Real Madrid to please Zidane's wish. But the negotiations were affected by that bad relationship that remained between Florentino and Raiola in the summer of 2016. The figures did not end up adding up either and Real Madrid had already spent a lot of money on young people like Vinicius and Rodrygo, 45 and 40 million respectively and, above all, on Hazard (100 million, the galactic corner piece around which to make a new project after a season without titles. And that Pogba put a lot on his part when, just after the season, he put her bootndo with some statements: “It is time to start a new challenge,” he said without hesitation.
Summer 2020.
He had to be the one who made the saying “the third time the charm” good. The situation was once again unbeatable to sign the Frenchman, with Modric in the final stretch of his career and Zidane betting on a more back and forth and less elaborate football that needs muscle in the center of the field. United could extend (and will do so in December) for another year the contract that expires in 2021, but it was the perfect time to leave. The normal thing, even, is that instead of exercising that clause it ends up renewing it to prevent it from going free a couple of years later. LRaiola's relationship with Solskjaer was at its worst. Pogba had met Zidane in Dubai shortly before and they were able to talk … But the economic crisis due to the coronavirus once again knocked down any possibility of his coming … And now it is very difficult although, as they say in England, Pogba is going to try until the last moment.