Paul Pogba\u2019s agent Mino Raiola is happily back to his controversial tactics again.<\/p>\n
Raiola, a key figure central in the earlier controversy regarding Paul Pogba and his future at Manchester United, has decided to stir up the hot pot again with his latest ascerbic remarks.<\/p>\n
Speaking to The Athletic<\/em>, Raiola coolly pushed the blame to Sir Alex Ferguson for Pogba\u2019s departure from the club in 2012, saying that the latter did not have faith in the French forward. In his autobiography, the United doyen had identified Raiola as the perpetrator manipulating his charge, Pogba, into leaving Old Trafford. Needless to say, the superagent refuted the claims, saying that he in fact wanted the midfielder to remain at the club.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Ferguson criticised me, that was my biggest compliment anybody could give me,\u201d Raiola told The Athletic.<\/p>\n \u201cFerguson is used to people coming in and [saying]: \u2018Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Pogba subsequently returned to Old Trafford for a club-record fee in 2016 but speculations since then regarding his future with the club have dominated the media headlines. Raiola in his self-defense said that the club owners, the Glazers, proved him right when Pogba was re-signed after Ferguson retired as manager in 2013.<\/p>\n \u201cAll I have to say that when Ferguson left Manchester United, the club\u2019s owner [the Glazers], by buying back Paul Pogba, told me that I was right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause I didn\u2019t want to take Paul Pogba away. [Ferguson] didn\u2019t believe in Paul Pogba.<\/p>\n \u201cSo when Ferguson says: \u2018I don\u2019t like him, it\u2019s the biggest compliment that I could have. It\u2019s like saying Sepp Blatter says: \u2018I don\u2019t like him\u2019. Fantastic. I don\u2019t care what Ferguson says.\u201d<\/p>\n The highly-controlversial agent had again stirred up controversy in December when he told Tuttosport that Pogba\u2019s stay at United was nearing its end. United then crashed out of the Champions League losing to RB Leipzig in the next game in which Pogba started from the bench.<\/p>\n When asked how his remarks are affecting Pogba\u2019s relations with United management, Raiola\u2019s response was that he does not care.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t give a f*ck if I never do another player with Manchester United,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not in their hands.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m independent. We have only one party that we take care of – our players. And as long as our players like us, you do what you have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"