These are not good times for a star who wants to change teams. Knows it well Paul Pogba (27 years old), that between now and the end of the season is at a great crossroads: Wait for the long-awaited offer from Real Madrid? Access a return to Juve? Start conversations with Inter, which will have money after the sales of Lautaro and Icardi? Or finally catch the easiest way, to accept United’s renewal offer that the French media has on the table and that would ensure the future in these unstable times. Pogba has a contract with the English entity until 2021 and a salary of 17 million euros clean.
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That is, his high salary, the main impediment for him to end up playing for Real Madrid. The net 17 million euros he charges exceed the 14.5 of Ramos or Bale, the tip of the pyramid of the white template. Florentino believes that it is too much money for a midfielder (the sum of salary and transfer). Conversations between Pogba and Real Madrid have been frequent in recent years. Being a special request from Zidane, the white entity tried to sign him in 2016 and in the summer of 2019.
Of those two attempts (2016 and 2019) the relationship between Florentino Pérez and Mino Raiola, the player’s agent, did not go very well. But it is fluid contact between Raiola and José Ángel Sánchez. Not surprisingly, the representative already has a player on the Madrid squad, Areola. Now, the concern of Pogba’s environment is called Camavinga. He is younger (17 years old) and cheaper (50 million). And, as AS reported, Madrid have already made the first contacts … That pushes Pogba to think of other possibilities.
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Among the most feasible to leave United are those of Juventus (although from Italy they assure that the economic situation of Vecchia Signora does not give him to pay the high salary of the footballer) and Inter Milan. This Inter interest was on the cover of the prestigious Gazzetta dello Sport just a few days ago. They will receive money for the sales of Lautaro and Icardi.
Everything was arranged for Pogba to leave United this summer. But that was before the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis. So, Raiola was already preparing the ground for the midfielder’s farewell with his confrontation with Solsjkaer. “Paul is our player and not Mino’s,” Solskjaer complained after an attack by Raiola in the media. And the agent replied on his Twitter. It was last February 17: “Pogba is not mine or Solsjkaer’s. You cannot have anyone in property for a long period, in the UK or anywhere else. I hope Solskjaer did not want to suggest that Pogba is a prisoner. “
He is not as much as a prisoner, although United can extend the footballer’s contract for another year (until 2022) unilaterally. It is unlikely that it will. Bruno Fernandes has turned out well, he has in mind to sign another medium, Jack Grealish, a 24-year-old Aston Villa midfielder, and he needs money to sign a guarantee forward. But Pogba is at the crossroads. Camavinga’s name is closer to Madrid than his own.
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