"Paul Pogba was a target for Zidane, not so much for the club, and the money involved in that deal means that Real Madrid I don't think have Paul Pogba as a priority," Balague said on his YouTube channel.
"Paul Pogba has suggested both, that he wants to go and he wants to stay.
"So he's playing his cards but at the moment I do feel that a player like him would be better serviced to be at Manchester United where he will be the leader, physically he will be fit finally and it seems like they are at least a stable club right now, there won't be changes, [Ole Gunnar] Solskjaer will stay.
"I know that the coaching staff at Manchester United feel that Pogba is a good leader, perhaps not so much when things are going wrong, but when they are going right, and you've got to hope, for Manchester United fans anyway, that the finances are in the right place to at least be able to get a stable team, improving with two or three players, meaning he has the chance to shine.
"It's not a good time to leave I don't think and I believe that they're going to convince him to stay with a new contract.
"But we'll have to see because this is very early in the conversations in that department and as I said he's playing with all the possible cards."
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Not a huge Balague fan, but I think his reasoning is pretty sound here. I reckon that there is a good chance Pogba will stay. If he does and we can get a couple more big signings in during the summer then next season could be an exciting one.
Balague: Pogba will stay
posted on 18/4/20
Under a far stronger regime than the current one.
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Financially we weren’t. The Glazer debt was crippling us back then. We used the Ronaldo money to pay off interest ffs.
United may be a mess on the pitch, but our financial strength as a club has never been as strong as it is now. This is why we haven’t sold Pogba, because we have the power to make that decision.
Finding a buyer makes this irrelevant when it’s obvious that our intentions have always been to keep him. I don’t know why you find this so difficult to understand. You dislike of Pogba seems to make you incapable of simple cognition.
posted on 18/4/20
comment by Joe The King Exotic (U10026)
posted 21 minutes ago
Under a far stronger regime than the current one.
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Financially we weren’t. The Glazer debt was crippling us back then. We used the Ronaldo money to pay off interest ffs.
United may be a mess on the pitch, but our financial strength as a club has never been as strong as it is now. This is why we haven’t sold Pogba, because we have the power to make that decision.
Finding a buyer makes this irrelevant when it’s obvious that our intentions have always been to keep him. I don’t know why you find this so difficult to understand. You dislike of Pogba seems to make you incapable of simple cognition.
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We didn’t have as much financial piower, but we had enough. He left.
You haven’t addressed the point that no one actually wants him enough to spend the money....
posted on 18/4/20
Then why did we use the money to pay off the interest? They forced our hand as we didn’t have the financial strength to refuse a world record fee, and we’d made the promise that he could leave.
I’ve already addressed it. United haven’t found a buyer because they don’t want to sell. It really is that simple.
posted on 18/4/20
That's kind of what I mean, I'm not really sure what you think you've proven.
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What's my point?
You tried to write off his contributions.
"Slamming in 8 penalties against the likes of Huddersfield does not a good player make for me."
His goal contributions last season won us a shiiiit load of points.
The end
posted on 18/4/20
Okay.
posted on 18/4/20
comment by Joe The King Exotic (U10026)
posted 12 minutes ago
Then why did we use the money to pay off the interest? They forced our hand as we didn’t have the financial strength to refuse a world record fee, and we’d made the promise that he could leave.
I’ve already addressed it. United haven’t found a buyer because they don’t want to sell. It really is that simple.
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No, what you meant is utd haven’t found a buyer because not one single club values him at the level we do.
Which is natural. We overpaid considerably to start with, and he hasn’t done a lot to justify/raise it.
Though I will say he hasn’t always been used correctly, and if ole insists on playing him in a two then questions have to be asked on whether it’s Ed keeping him there, or I’d ole is blind...
posted on 18/4/20
I know what I meant. United don’t really care about selling players below market rate either. You keep saying that’s the sticking point when the sticking point is that United don’t want to sell. We are trying to get him to sign a new contract ffs.
posted on 18/4/20
Tbf the new contract thing could very well be to keep some value on him if he still insists on going in the next couple of seasons
I’m sure every player has a price - even Pogba, but the problem is no one seemingly has the money to pay what we value him at which I think is probably around £150 million
posted on 18/4/20
I guess it’s a no lose tactic from the club
Over-value him and if it scares people off we keep an asset. If someone bites we make a huge profit
posted on 19/4/20
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