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Paul Pogba hits out at Manchester United’s £300,000-a-week ‘nothing’ offer

‘I will show Manchester that they have made a mistake,’ midfielder says in Amazon Prime documentary

Paul Pogba has hit out at Manchester United's offer of a new contract in a documentary for Amazon Prime. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA Wires
Paul Pogba has hit out at Manchester United's offer of a new contract in a documentary for Amazon Prime. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA Wires
Thu Jun 16 2022 - 18:54

Paul Pogba says he wants to prove Manchester United wrong after claiming their reported £300,000 (€351,000)-a-week offer to keep him was “nothing”.

The 29-year-old France midfielder is expected to return to Juventus when his United contract expires at the end of this month.

In an Amazon Prime documentary entitled The Pogumentary, to be released on Friday, Pogba discusses his future with his former agent Mino Raiola, who died in April after living with a serious illness since January.

Pogba says: “My thought process is to show Manchester that they made a mistake in waiting to give me a contract. And to show other clubs that Manchester had made a mistake in not offering me a contract.”

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As revealed in the documentary, United made two offers to extend Pogba’s stay, and Raiola said he had also been in talks with Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain. Pogba is filmed asking Raiola whether United had made a second offer in July 2021.

Raiola replies: “Yes. They absolutely want you to stay. For me, the offer doesn’t reflect that. I told them: ‘If you want him to stay, don’t make that offer.’ I will make them understand that if they really want you to stay and they want to build a project around you, this time they have to act differently and put the money on the table.”

Pogba says: “They’re bluffing. How can you tell a player you absolutely want him and offer him nothing? Never seen that.”

Pogba, who first arrived at Old Trafford from Le Havre as a 16-year-old in 2009, was allowed to leave United on a free transfer and join Juventus in 2012. He won four Serie A titles with Juve before returning to United for a then world record £89 million in August 2016 and reached his peak when helping France lift the World Cup at Russia 2018.

Pogba was rarely at his best for United and in one clip from the documentary Raiola tells him: “We must try to make you feel as good as when you are with the French national team. You’re different with them. You understand? You’re another Pogba with the Manchester United team. It’s not normal.

“With the France team, you’re the real Pogba, the Pogba of Juventus, the Pogba that everyone loves. With Manchester, there’s something blocking you.”