The 27-year-old midfielder, strongly linked with the likes of Juventus and Real Madrid this summer, is out of contract in 2021, though United hold an option to extend that by 12 months and this week it was claimed they will trigger that as they have done with Nemanja Matic.
However, it’s claimed United were looking to trigger Pogba’s extension in order to protect their interest in the player and ensure they can claim the maximum transfer fee they can for the midfielder.
Furthermore, it was claimed that United are, in fact, actively seeking a buyer for Pogba and are said to have informed interested parties of their new asking price for him.
Unlike last summer when the player admitted he was seeking a new challenge – an admission that forced United to stick a huge asking price on his head – the club are now believed to looking at bringing in a fee of just £55million for the player.
And it seems the chances of the player will leaving – and for how much – will depend very much on the key talks between both Woodward and Raiola.
As per the Daily Mirror, Raiola and Woodward ‘are talking again’ after ‘Pogba’s aggressive Italian-born advisor made repeated attacks on United at the turn of the year’.
The report adds that ‘a peace-pact has been struck’ with ‘both parties try to find a way forward over his future’.
Raiola spoke about Pogba’s future as recently as last week but the two men are now talking again about Pogba’s future thanks to a ‘new line of communication’.
Pogba’s representative ‘wants them to agree to sell Pogba to Real Madrid’ while Man Utd ‘will do what is in the best interests of the team and the club’.
