Paul Pogba

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Cytat:The fact he (Pogba) might even be impatient is annoying. He’s 18 and has no right to think he should be playing in the first team. More often than not he’s been poor for the Reserves this season. He’s not good enough to be regularly involved in the first team at the moment – or at least done nothing to suggest that he should be included ahead of other Reserve team players. The odd fleeting bench appearance is fine as he clearly has potential, but others – Cole, Lingard and Petrucci in particular, have been better than him this season and should really be ahead of him in the pecking order. The only thing that might keep Pogba ahead of them is his superior physique.
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The few occasions I’ve met him he was polite and very grateful to be at United. I’ve no doubt he likes being at the club and in the few interviews he’s given he’s always been very positive about his future at United. He’s clearly being very badly advised – when you’re 18 and someone keeps telling you that you should earn big money and be in the first team, you start to believe it after a while. I can’t blame the club for apparently taking a hard line on this situation, they don’t need to be played around by an 18 year old and his agent.
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Bottom line is it’s no failure on United’s part if he leaves. This is the age of hyping up youngsters too early and big money – once United cave in and give one unproven youngster a big deal, the rest will follow or at least feel entitled to demand a similar wage. We don’t need to go down that dangerous path and it’s pleasing to see that clearly the club agree.

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Cytat:United don’t want Pogba, out of contract in June, to go and have offered him a deal worth £20,000 a week. It would make him the top paid player outside the regular first teamers on a salary far in excess of his usual team mates in the reserves. United’s locally reared graduates have long been irritated that imported youngsters earn far more. To stress the point, Mancunian defender Ezekiel Fryers, has a contract offer worth about a fifth of Pogba’s. Unlike Pogba, who has just four substitute appearances to his name for the first team, Fryers has actually started two games for United. Both turned down their offers and were given ultimatums last week. Fryers is likely to sign.

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