Paul Pogba wanted Manchester United to realise they’d made a ‘mistake’ in not offering him a lucrative new contract sooner as a new documentary exposes the midfielder’s broken relationship with the Old Trafford club.
The France international is set to return to Juventus after his United contract ran down and it has emerged he dismissed an offer of a £300,000-a-week deal as ‘nothing’.
His comments, made during a conversation with his agent, the late Mino Raiola, have emerged in a new Amazon documentary on the player.
Paul Pogba wanted Manchester United to realise they’d made a mistake in not offering an improved contract sooner as a new documentary exposes his fractured relationship with them
The France midfielder is set to depart Old Trafford and re-sign for Juventus this summer
Pogba first approached United about the possibility of an extended contract in the summer of 2019 but it took the club some time to table their offer.
It emerged in a preview for The Pogmentary that the player rejected two offers in excess of his existing £290,000-a-week at United and wanted to punish the club for leaving him waiting.
Speaking to Raiola as he drives a Rolls-Royce in Miami, Pogba asks: ‘Did Manchester make a second offer?’
‘Yes,’ replies Raiola, who died in April. ‘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 responds: ‘They’re bluffing. How can you tell a player you absolutely want him and offer him nothing? Never seen that.
The new Pogmentary on Amazon Prime has revealed his strained relationship with United
Pogba’s comments come in a conversation with his agent, the late Mino Raiola (top)
‘Playing is all that matters, winning too. My thought process is to show Manchester they shouldn’t have waited this long to offer a contract and to show other clubs that Manchester made a mistake in not offering a contract.’
In another part of the new documentary series, Raiola speaks about the contrast between the Pogba that under-performed for United and the player who won the World Cup with France in 2018.
The agent says: ‘You’re different with the national team. You’re another Pogba with the national team and with Manchester. It’s not normal.
‘The French team gets the real…