Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has claimed that the club would be making a “very big statement” if they signed Paul Pogba from Juventus in the coming weeks.
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While this may seem like an innocuous enough move, the timing is very interesting.
Wenger also defended chief executive Ivan Gazidis, who has come in for criticism from supporters eager for Arsenal to spend more money.
“We have 38 matches in the Premier League, we have the possibility of 15 matches in the Europa League, plus domestic cups, we are going to play 60 matches”.
United and Juventus have agreed to pay a fee to Raiola with part of his 20 per cent bonus being accounted for in Pogba’s overall deal.
Pogba is said to be on the brink of completing a world-record switch back to the club he left four years ago as Jose Mourinho seeks to lead United back into Premier League title contention.
And he can not afford to slip up. If you can afford to pay it you can justify it.
Scholes, now retired, spent his entire career at United and racked up almost 700 appearances for the Red Devils after graduating from the academy. But it is completely insane if you compare it to normal life.
“There’s not a lot of time to work, to change, to make a couple of new ideas and new principles of play, everything is step by step and the reality is we don’t have this time”.
“Football has become a global competition and that is why clubs are chucking these kinds of sums around”. Nobody ever could calculate.
Francis is not surprised to see a player valued at one hundred times his fee this summer but expected it to be one of the game’s most prolific forwards, not a central midfielder.
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This fee is something Wenger was quoted as telling the Daily Mail was “completely crazy” but less so if such fees can be “afforded” like United can.
