‘Get rid!’: Paul Pogba is the ‘most overrated player I have ever seen in my LIFE’, blasts Jamie Carragher after Mino Raiola’s latest outburst – as he insists Frenchman is not …
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Jamie Carragher has labelled Paul Pogba as the most overrated player he has ever seen after his agent announced that the Frenchman wants to leave Manchester United.
On Monday, Mino Raiola urged United to sell their £89million record signing next summer or risk losing him for nothing when his contract expires in June 2022 because he claims Pogba won’t sign a new one.
Raiola has cast doubt over Pogba’s future before and the timing of his latest comments will infuriate manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – but Carragher said on Monday Night Football that United should be happy to sell the World Cup winner as he called the pair a ‘disgrace.’
Jamie Carragher (left) has labelled Paul Pogba as the most overrated player he has ever seen
Pogba, pictured here with agent Mino Raiola back in 2016, has caused a headache for United
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‘Get rid! I’ve been saying this for 12 months. The most overrated player I’ve ever seen in my life!’ Carragher said, on Sky Sports.
‘I think the two of them are a disgrace. We’ll all look at the agent now and ask Pogba what he thinks. Agents in this day and age, they are not just agents, they are a parent, a best friend, a financial adviser, they book holidays, they go away with each other.
‘Those two will be like that (crosses fingers). He will be Pogba’s best mate. So Pogba will be well aware of what was going to come out of his mouth. And if he wasn’t, he should sack his agent.
‘It’s very, very simple. That’s all that needs to happen. I mean I don’t know where he is going to go… who’s going to have him? I don’t get it?’
His agent Raiola, who is famously outspoken, told Italian newspaper Tuttosport: ‘I can say that it’s over for Paul Pogba at Manchester United.
‘He has to change teams, he has to change the air.
‘He has a contract that will expire in a year and a half, in the summer of 2022, but I believe the best solution for the parties is to sell in the next market.
‘Otherwise, the club, with whom relations are excellent, knows well that they would risk losing him on a free transfer, given that for the moment it is not the player’s intention to extend the contract.’
Yet ex-Liverpool defender Carragher insisted that United should want to sell the 27-year-old, who returned to the club four years ago from Juventus amid high hopes he was ready to fulfil his potential.
Raiola has a turbulent relationship with Manchester United already and this will add to that
Pogba (middle) had been linked with a summer move away but ended up staying at the club
‘Man United want rid of him – don’t kid yourself,’ Carragher continued.
‘Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been playing Scott McTominay and Fred in front of him in midfield. And he had to put him in because he was resting players.
‘He hasn’t played for a month but he hasn’t been out. He has had an injury but before that he was on the bench. He played because they were resting players for Leipzig. Would you play him now, in Leipzig, on the back of that?’
Carragher also referred to similarities with when Cristiano Ronaldo moved from United to Real Madrid for a then world-record sum in 2009, but felt the key difference is that Pogba is not worth the same hassle.
Pogba is part of the United squad travelling to face RB Leipzig in Europe on Tuesday night
Pogba seemed to have turned a corner recently but appears to now be on his way out
‘Remember a few years ago, everyone knew that Ronaldo was going to Real Madrid but United had to put up with it because he was worth the hassle,’ Carragher added.
‘Pogba is not worth the hassle. Get rid of him.
‘There are only two clubs better than United and that’s Barca and Real Madrid. And when I say better I mean players (leaving) you can understand as they are the pinnacle of club football. Have to accept that.
‘There is no chance in the world that Real Madrid or Barca will buy him. I’ll be flabbergasted again if they come in.
‘Maybe a French thing with [Zinedine] Zidane there but I wouldn’t go anywhere near him.’
Carragher believes that Pogba is not worth the same hassle as Cristiano Ronaldo was in 2009
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