{"id":109547,"date":"2019-04-22T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109547"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:56:24","slug":"epl-rio-ferdinand-gives-verdict-on-pogbas-future-at-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109547","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Rio Ferdinand gives verdict on Pogba&#8217;s future at Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Real-Madrid-ready-to-snub-Pogba-for-another-Premier-League-star.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Rio Ferdinand said that manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, must make the decision about Pogba\u2019s future at Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>There has been speculation linking the French star away from Old Trafford and Zinedine Zidane\u2019s return to Real Madrid has promoted a fresh wave rumour suggesting that Pogba could be set to make a switch to the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n<p>Forner United boss, Jose Mourinho spent a club record \u00a389m to sign the France international from Juventus in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Pogba produced a disappointing performance in Manchester United\u2019s 3-0 loss to FC Barcelona in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Tuesday night and their humiliating 4-0 loss to Everton on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the Frenchman\u2019s future at Old Trafford, Ferdinand told BT Sports, \u201cI think that\u2019s a big decision in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s up to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think as well there\u2019s been, you here things in the media that he might want to leave and he\u2019s fancying a trip abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think it\u2019s either you build the team around him, of a player of this calibre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause you\u2019ve seen once Ole came into the door his level went up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got 16 goals this season, albeit six of them penalties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the output in terms of goals has been a marked improvement since Ole\u2019s come here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that\u2019s something I\u2019m sure Ole will take into account. It\u2019s going to be [judged] over the time Ole\u2019s been here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOle will have to judge \u2018do I build the team around him?\u2019 given his ability he\u2019s got and the attributes he has, or if Paul wants to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would keep him here because Man United, they need stars and need players that can turn games.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Ferdinand said that manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, must make the decision about Pogba\u2019s future at Manchester United. There has been speculation linking the French star away from Old Trafford and Zinedine Zidane\u2019s return to Real Madrid has promoted a fresh wave rumour suggesting that Pogba could be set to make a switch to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}