Pogba: 'Sir Alex warned me'

Paul Pogba has revealed how Sir Alex Ferguson tried to talk him out of joining Juventus. “He said they were all racist.”

The French international midfielder has become a fan favourite in Serie A and at the age of 20 already a key player in the Scudetto-winning team.

He arrived last summer on a free transfer from Manchester United after struggling for playing time.

“Ferguson shouted at me and said: ‘Where are you going? To Juve, to Italy? Do you know what there is out there? They’re all racist,’” Pogba told France Football.

“He said the fans were not like they are in England. I replied there was racism everywhere, so I just wanted to play football so I could gain experience and improve.

“Ferguson noted ‘ok’ and then never let me play for Manchester United again.”

It is not difficult for pogba to become world class he is natural gifted,

He got the talent and great physical, what alows him to shoot the ball better, run fast, jump high, dribbling, and defending,

It is not difficult to predict this player is going to be good, but someone such as verrati needs to be extremely talented to competition physically good players like pogba...

Typical U.K people, acting as if racism isn't where they live but only in Italy!

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isn't saying "all italians are racist" , a racist statement? lmfao....
racism exists everywhere, if you ask me, italians are doing a good job of trying to get rid of it there.Good on pogba, I don't know why he would bring this up though.... seems a bit disrespectful seeing as Sir Alex is retiring and all. Do they hate each other?

It's not a racist statement, only a stupid stereotype. But if Frguson really said this, then it's kinda idiotic

SAF went at Pogba after he signed at Juve with very silly comments to make him seem like a bad kid... Pogba's just dishing out some payback.

sportsczy wrote:SAF went at Pogba after he signed at Juve with very silly comments to make him seem like a bad kid... Pogba's just dishing out some payback.

and after all he is still a kid so he kind of hits out at him a little lik 'you were wrong' . we are ppl we all make stupid mistakes

SAF actually questioned Pogba's core value saying that he doesn't have the strength of character needed at a club like Man U and that Man U was better off without him... literally said that verbatim. For a grown man like SAF to say something like that about a 18 yo kid, it was shameful.

Yeah SAF was clearly losing the plot and said some stupid things.


He questioned everything about Pogba and Pogba didn't take it lying down.

He's proven him wrong and is rubbing SAFS dace in it and rightly so if you ask me.

SAF is a natural whiner and a class A bitch. Typical of him to whine to Pogba and use a racist stereotype to say someone else is a racist. SAF is a sore loser and completely devoid of class. 0 respect to him.