The Pogmentary raises a few questions. Firstly, who signed off on ‘Pogmentary’? ‘The Pogumentary’ is just as cringeworthy but it surely works better than the Amazon alternative.
Secondly, is Paul Pogba the footballer most detached from reality?
It’s a crowded field, but the lines that have come out of preview screenings of the Frenchman’s fly-on-the-wall production certainly make him stand out. That is something Pogba has sought to do throughout his career, increasingly so for the wrong reasons, but the former Manchester United midfielder appears to be of the view that any publicity is good publicity.
Admittedly, this piece is being bitterly bashed out without having seen any of The Pogmentary beyond the trailers and the words written by those who have been subjected to it, but anyone who has watched Pogba for the last decade since his senior debut for United already knew what was coming when the series was announced over a year ago.
Since then, Pogba and his producers – pogucers? – have crafted a piece of work to show the player’s perspective on a truly miserable season for United and, for the midfielder, another wasted year. From what we know of Pogba, he would probably dispute that verdict on his final term at United, which was always going to provide the setting for this programme (Pogramme? No, you f*** off). Even the most creative writers would be hard pushed to wring five episodes from a contract renewal, which indicates that Pogba never had any intention of signing one. Mino Raiola and Pogba have spent the last five years doing their utmost to get the 29-year-old away from Old Trafford; the release of this series was only ever going to coincide with a transfer.
Still, Pogba seemed to feel the need to ham it up for cameras. The scene most seized upon by those granted an early screening is set in Miami, where Pogba is driving a Rolls Royce. “Did Manchester make a second offer?” he asks Raiola. “Yes, they absolutely want you to stay,” comes the reply. “For me, the offer doesn’t reflect that. I told them: ‘If you want him to stay, don’t make that offer’.”
“How can you tell a player you absolutely want him and offer him nothing? Never seen that.”
The Millennials among us who read about Ashley Cole nearly crashing his Bentley over Arsenal ‘taking the p*ss’ have seen this before, so it’s hardly a fresh storyline. But the Pogmentary is aimed very precisely at a more Gen Z audience. You could say the the…
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