Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has been slammed by Liverpool legend Steve Nicol for expressing his desire to play for Real Madrid.
Pogba has been flirting with Madrid after his recent claims that his dream team is the Los Blancos. And reacting to comments from French journalist Julien Laurens – who claimed it is inevitable that Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola will move the midfielder on to Real eventually, while Gareth Bale is going to stay at the club if he wants to – Nicol hit out.
“This scrambles my brain, seriously it does,” the Scot said on ESPN.
“How the rhetoric today is that if the player and the agent want to go, then they’re going to be going. That kills me. We’re saying two opposite things here. We’re saying that if Pogba wants to go he’ll be able to go, but if Bale doesn’t want to go then Bale won’t go. The clubs have got absolutely no chance.”
“What’s going on here? This is absolutely ridiculous. A guy like Paul Pogba can just turn round at a club like Manchester United – who by the way have done every single thing to help this guy financially, you name it – and then he’s just going to custard pie them whenever he fancies it and he can just go. I can’t get my brain around that, that is just completely wrong.”
Pogba’s words angered United fans after the midfielder termed Madrid “one of the biggest clubs in the world”.
