5 reasons why Paul Pogba will stay at Manchester United

#3 Who can afford Paul Pogba?

The price has just gone up

Here we are again. When Paul Pogba decided to move from Juventus, he had offers from Real Madrid and Manchester United.

Say, Manchester United are willing to let Pogba leave, they won't let him go for cheap even if the sky hits the ground at Carrington. United do have a history of letting players leave for abysmally low amounts of money but that situation has taken a turn for the better ever since the arrival of Jose Mourinho.

In the current transfer market, a player of Paul Pogba's ability will cost upwards of £150 million. That greatly discounts the number of potential suitors who can afford Paul. There are only a handful of teams that can even think about signing him, say PSG, Real Madrid and maybe Manchester City.

Pep can daydream but Pogba will not pull that trick on the Old Trafford faithful and don the blue colours of City that the Red Army is collectively allergic to.

Real Madrid and Manchester United are not in the best of terms following the David de Gea and Alvaro Morata situations. As for PSG, they already have a talented midfield and it would be a trip that takes Pogba out of relevance in Europe because come on, it's the Ligue 1. We saw so much more of Neymar when he was at Barcelona, didn't we?

So, lemme ask again, who in the blue hell can sign Paul Pogba from Manchester United?

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