Raiola: “United-Pogba: it's over”

On 16 October, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer announced at a press conference prior to Manchester United's game against Newcastle at Old Trafford that The English club had executed the option to extend Pogba's contract for one more season: “Paul is our player and he will be here for another two years. He is focused on the best for us and I am sure that in these two years we will get the best of him.” In this way, the French midfielder had a contract with the 'Red Devils' until 2022. However, the player's agent, Mino Raiola, says the opposite. in an interview with Tuttosport and that will be published this Tuesday. According to the Italian representative, the Frenchman will leave Old Trafford next summer and assures him with a resounding assertion: “The Pogba-United relationship is over.”

“There is no use giving it more laps,” Raiola explains to Tuttosport. “It is better to speak clearly, look ahead and not waste time looking for culprits: Paul at Manchester United is unhappy, he can no longer express himself as he would like and as expected of him. He has to change teams, he has to change air. He has a contract that expires in a year and a half, in the summer of 2022, but I think the best solution for the parties is to sell it in the next market. Otherwise, the Old Trafford club, with which relations are excellent, knows well that it would risk losing it, going free, since at the moment it is not the player's intention to extend the contract. If someone doesn't understand it, then they understand very little about football. In any case, blame me if Paul leaves next summer, “added the Italian agent.

Precisely, Pogba has long been one of Zinedine Zidane's longings. The Madrid coach has had no qualms about praising him publicly on more than one occasion: “I like Pogba. He is a great player. He is an extraordinary player.” The still United player has also recognized his Madridista and his desire to work with Zidane on countless occasions: “Real Madrid is a dream for all children, for all soccer players, especially with Zinedine Zidane.”

United paid 120 million in 2016 to sign Pogba from Juventus, thus making him the most expensive signing in history at the time. However, the Frenchman has never reached the level shown at Vecchia Signora at Old Trafford. That's why its market value has dropped considerably. According to Transfermarkt, it is 80 million.

The French international of Manchester United has received innumerable criticisms at this start of the exercise and he has revealed one of the reasons that were kept secret. On August 27, the player tested positive for COVID and was quarantined. After that, Pogba has gone through a physical way of the cross that he has now recounted. On Saturday against West Ham he scored his first goal in this Premier, a good goal, showing signs of improvement. After that, he was sincere into the club's microphones. “It wasn't me, I told the physical trainer in every training session. I felt strange, I was exhausted very quickly and I was out of breath”, The player has affirmed that he has felt the effects of the coronavirus long after being negative.