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(Reuters) – Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer responded to Paul Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola after he said his client was “unhappy” at Old Trafford and should leave the club.
In an interview with Tuttosport, Raiola said the best solution was for United to sell the France midfielder in the next transfer window. Pogba’s current contract ends in June 2022.
Pogba, who came from Juventus in 2016, has appeared in eight Premier League games this season, starting in just five.
It began United’s 3-2 Champions League defeat to RB Leipzig on the bench on Tuesday, a result that saw it emerge from Europe’s elite club competition in the group stage.
“As soon as Paul’s agent realizes that this is a team sport and we work better together, that’s maybe the last thing I’ll say about it,” Solskjaer told reporters.
“What we talk about in the background is something. I’m not going to talk more about Paul’s agent.
“Paul is focused on doing his best for the team and when he’s here he works hard in training, he just needs to focus on his performances.”
With Pogba still having 18 months left on his existing contract, Solskjaer declined to talk about his plans for the next transfer windows.
He said the away loss to Istanbul Basaksehir last month was the “great turning point” in his failed European campaign.
“Of course you can’t say we were good enough, we weren’t good enough, in a tough group, of course,” Solskjaer said.
“We started very well, in this group and obviously the big turning point or the big defeat for us was in Istanbul. That’s the one you look back on and think that’s where we lost the points that we should have had.”
(Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Edited by Peter Rutherford)
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