Paul Pogba ready to discuss Manchester United future at end of season
By Tom Gott
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has revealed that he will sit down with the club at the end of the season to discuss his contract situation.
The Frenchman has entered the final 18 months of his current deal and was widely expected to be sold in the coming summer after agent Mino Raiola publicly claimed Pogba wanted to leave Old Trafford because he was 'unhappy'.
However, those comments came before Pogba rediscovered his best form and led United towards the top of the Premier League table. All of a sudden, an exit no longer seems as certain as it was just one month ago, and Pogba confessed that he is ready to talk to the club about his future.
"I am on contract, I am here, I am enjoying myself," Pogba told BT Sport in the build-up to United's 2-1 loss to Sheffield United. "Everybody knows that I have one year left, I'm going to speak with the club and see what's going on.
"For now, my objective, my goal is to win something. That's all I'm thinking about is to win."
Pogba recently insisted that he will continue to be happy at Old Trafford as long as his side keep on winning, admitting that he struggles to cope when United come out on the losing side - just as they did on Wednesday.
His future is a tricky one to get your head around. In terms of potential landing spots, it's Real Madrid and Juventus who are usually named a suitors, although neither side has anywhere close to the money needed to land the midfielder.
Should United sell in the summer, they know they would likely make a loss on the £89m they spent to bring him back to Old Trafford in 2016, but he'd still be one of the most expensive transfers of the summer.
However, whether United actually want to sell is a different matter. Now that he has shaken off the injuries which have plagued him for the last year, Pogba looks like the game-changing midfielder he was supposed to be, and it's no coincidence that United's upturn his form has come at the same time as Pogba's resurgence.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has made no secret of his desire to keep Pogba around, but he may have to keep his side in a title battle if he is to convince the World Cup winner to stay.