Every transfer window comes with a new star who is taken as the biggest starlet of the contemporary soccer and most of the times his skill is measured with the paycheck his aspiring sides are willing to pay and most of the time he is also being compared with all-time greats of the game and this time this is something that seems to be happening with Manchester United’s eye candy Paul Pogba who is reportedly going to rejoin his former side at a biggest paycheck ever paid to any player. Yes, you heard it right, if rumors are to be believed, Red Devils have agreed shelling out some £100 million for the 23-year-old Frenchman who currently plays for Italian club Juventus. If ever happens it would not be the first time he will be seen in the ManU shirt since he has played for them back in 2012 but for some salary issues he had to leave the side and now he is back again with even higher price tag. While many are calling it a media made blunder there are few who believe player having Messi or Ronaldo kind of skills only deserves that much money but at the same time there are few experts of the game who don’t agree with that much of money rolling on a single player.
Former ManU player Paul Scholes is one such expert who is not ready to accept Pogba deserves anything like that. He even refused to compare him with players like Messi or Ronaldo who have long been proving their class while Frenchman is just new to the game and has to prove lots of things in coming future. He said, “He (Pogba) was a very talented player, I played with him quite a lot. If you ask me, at that time his agent was asking for a lot of money for a player who did not play first-team football except once or twice.
“Okay, he has gone on to great things and there was a massive improvement in him. But for that money you would need a player who scores 50-plus goals a season, like Ronaldo or Messi. Pogba is not there yet. I just don’t think he is a player worth £100m right now.”
Adding about the two other new players of Red Devils Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, co-owner of Salford City said, “I haven’t seen much of Mkhitaryan but he seems to be a good player. With Ibrahimovic, he was playing at PSG and there were a lot of chances created and it was easy to score in that league.”
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