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Originally Posted by Neo
Thing is, I find the whole idea of him 'disrespecting the club' massively overblown. Not like he's openly gone on strike, put in a transfer request, downed tools and fallen out with teammates and the coaching staff.
He's a simpleton who has a bad agent that manipulates all his players. I think Pogba has similar intelligence levels to a Balotelli, who is another player that Raiola controlled virtually entirely.
I try and look at the evidence in front of me, and all I see is a player that Ole loves, a player that Deschamps loves, and a player that is extremely popular amongst all his teammates.
Raiola will only be trying to get the best deal for himself, so will be worm-tonguing about PSG and Madrid if he thinks he'll get a bigger slice of the pie. Not much more to it than that IMO.
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I don’t think he’s a bad lad and a lot of people project the player onto the person. Because he’s a flashy player who can be a bit careless and lazy, that’s turns into him being like that as a player.
I think he’s a bit dim and the timing of some of his statements, media stuff can be a bit “come oooon, maaate”. Dying your hair blue on derby day when you’ve been linked with city, for example…
…but, as you say, the noises from the club are that he’s being a good professional.
The problem is that fat #@&%! of an agent and Pogba’s continued association with him.
Oh, and the fact he’s been largely shit since he’s been here. When a player is consistently linked with a move away, but they’re not even doing it on the pitch, it’s always going to create a feeling of “fine. Just go”.