Juventus are insisting that Paul Pogba is going nowhere this summer, but the Serie A club and Champions League finalists may still struggle to retain the French midfielder, who is coveted by Manchester City.
“He is a fundamental player in the Juventus squad,” the bianconeri’s general manager, Giuseppe Marotta, is quoted as saying by Corriere dello Sport. “Pogba is off the market, unless he says he wants to go. And he has not done that.”
Moreover, Marotta said that Pogba, who has also been linked with Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, has not expressed any desire to leave Juve. “I reiterate we don’t want to sell Pogba and he has said today that he doesn’t want to leave,” he is reported as saying. “Pogba is a player that has been requested by several clubs but we have not entered in any negotiation because we consider him strategic to our project.
“The player is not on the market and will only be put in the market if he says he wants to leave. If, in the future he wishes to leave, then we will have to look at all the options from a budget standpoint.”
