Raiola also revealed United beat off competition from another Premier League club to sign the former Shakhtar Donetsk man.
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“Mr Ferguson is entitled to his opinion and, though I don’t have to agree with it, I have a great deal of respect for him”.
“All I heard during the first half against United was Pogba screaming and shouting at his own players”, he said after the match.
Meanwhile, the writings were already on the wall for Ibrahimovic to join United on free transfer from Paris Saint-Germain with the chance to reunite with Mouurinho.
“With Real Madrid, Zidane’s will was strong but we were not sure the club felt the same”.
The France worldwide arrived at the Red Devils in the summer transfer window to much fanfare after United parted with a world-record transfer fee to lure him back to the club. “I still think United will win the league though as they now have the quality” he said.
“When you make a relation between what you pay and the club revenue, you realise that other clubs paying 20, 30, 40 is a much bigger thing than what Man United did”.
It has been a relatively slow start for Pogba, and the midfielder was unable to prevent the Red Devils from slipping to defeats by Manchester City and Feyenoord before Sunday’s Premier League trip to Watford. This idea of “us against them” cultivates a particular attitude required by the Special One when it comes to executing his ugly but often effective game plan: a ruthless, martyr-like refutation of anything outside the small 26-player realm, a middle finger to the wall of noise that greets them wherever they play.
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‘We knew we had interest, we spoke to Juventus, they really wanted to try for the Champions League, they gave him the No.10 shirt and we said we would give it one more year. “So when the two combined we knew it was right”.
