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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Josh O'Brien

Zinedine Zidane's comments on Paul Pogba highlight perfectly his failings at Man Utd

Zinedine Zidane insisted that Paul Pogba had everything required to become one of the best around - yet eight years on from those comments, the latter leaves Manchester United under a cloud.

So much has been expected of Pogba since he first burst onto the scene in a United shirt prior to his first Old Trafford exit, but the midfielder is now 29 years of age and still guilty of failing to find form on a consistent basis. Pogba initially left United for the first time in 2012 to ply his trade for one of Zidane's former clubs, Juventus.

The supremely technically-gifted talent returned to Old Trafford for a club-record fee of £89million in the summer of 2016, but not before he got Zidane's seal of approval - though it did come with a clear caveat.

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