Manchester United interim manager Ralf Rangnick has said Paul Pogba most likely won t be staying at the club beyond this season.
Pogba picked up a calf injury in the 4-0 defeat at Liverpool on Tuesday that will keep the midfielder out for a month.
With the Frenchman out of contract at the end of the campaign, and United s final game of 2021-22 coming on May 22, Rangnick does not expect Pogba to feature again, and has now suggested he may have played his final game for the club.
He won’t be available [at Arsenal] and most likely not for the rest of the games. It seems right now he will not renew his contract [so] it s most likely he won t be here any more next season, Rangnick said at a news conference on Friday.
Pogba has been linked with a move to Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain and former club Juventus in recent weeks.
The 29-year-old won the World Cup with France in 2018, playing a starring role in that Les Bleus team, but has struggled to play at a consistently high level for United since coming back to the Premier League club in 2016.
When asked why Pogba s six years at Old Trafford have been so up and down, Rangnick replied: It’s difficult to say.
He’s a player who won the World Cup with France, he s such a good player that he was a regular starter for a team like France. We all know what kind of potential he has and what kind of good player he can be.
He was quite like a few other players struggling to get his best performance sustainably on the pitch for a team like Man United.
This has not only been the case this season or in the last couple of weeks. As far as I remember, it was also the case in earlier years.