The second post drew dozens of comments from followers of both Manchester United and Juventus, who are expected to cut a deal that could see Pogba move to Old Trafford for a new world record transfer of 125 million euros.
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If you spend so much money, you want someone who can score 50 goals in a season – like Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrik Mkhitaryan and Eric Bailly have already joined United, since the former Chelsea coach was confirmed as manager.
Scholes was Pogba’s team mate when the latter was a teenager at United.
“First of all because I don’t think it’s correct to speak about players from other clubs”.
France worldwide Pogba departed Old Trafford to join Juve on a free transfer in 2012 and has since developed into one the world’s best players during his time in Turin, winning four straight Serie A titles with the club. “I just don’t think he is a player worth 100 million pound-plus right now”.
“For his age, he was asking for far too much money, for a player who hasn’t played first-team football”.
Manchester United will head back to Manchester on Monday following their brief trip to China.
I played with him and I knew how good he was.
He reportedly stayed back to work on negotiations over Pogba, and Mourinho said the pair enjoy a good working relationship “in a hard transfer market”. “He is a Juventus player and he is not a Man United player”, said Mourinho.
“The only thing I can tell you is that my board, my directors they did fantastic work to do 75 percent of the job I asked them to do”, said Mourinho.
However, the total cost for the English side is likely to be around €140m, as Juventus want them to pay Raiola’s commission of 20 per cent.
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“We established four important target profiles – not faces but profiles – and we got three of them at the very early stage of the market”.
