Pogba will be World best : Pogba

The Frenchman has emerged as one of the world's
best midfielders during his time at Juventus and
his former Old Trafford team-mate admits he tried
everything to get him to stay
Rio Ferdinand says Paul Pogba can become the
best player in the world and believes Manchester
United made a huge mistake in allowing him to
leave on a free transfer and join Juventus in 2012.

The France midfielder, who has developed into one
of the most coveted midfielders on the planet
during his time in Italy, is set to feature in the
Champions League final this weekend, with
Massimiliano Allegri’s side facing off against Luis
Enrique’s Barcelona in Berlin.
Manchester City have been heavily linked with a
bid for Pogba, while PSG are understood to have
agreed a €80 million fee with Juve for the 22-year-
old, and Ferdinand is unsurprised by the attention
being afforded to his former team-mate, whom he
says can win the Ballon d’Or by 2019.
“I’m not surprised Paul Pogba is being talked of as
a €96m player — neither am I surprised that teams
like Manchester City want to sign him,” he wrote in
The Sun .
“In fact I would confidently predict that, provided
he stays injury-free, Pogba will be the world player
of the year within the next four years. Yes, he is
that good.
“As a former team-mate of the Frenchman’s at
Manchester United, I saw first-hand what Pogba
could do and what a top player he could become.”
Ferdinand says that he attempted to convince
Pogba to stay at Old Trafford when the midfielder
grew frustrated at his lack of first-team
opportunities, and believes that United’s failure to
retain him has come back to haunt the club.
“When he started talking about leaving United I
decided to take matters into my own hands and
pulled him aside to give him the hard word,” he
continued.
“I desperately wanted Paul to stay at Old Trafford
and asked him what the hell he was doing. I then
said to him: ‘What do you want?’ and his reply
was: ‘I want to be the best player in the world.’
“For me United was the best place to do that. I
told him that everything he needed was right there
and that his time would come.
“But he wasn’t having it, he had to play and felt he
should be playing and had made up his mind to
go.
“I knew if he left it would come back to bite United
on the backside.
“It was about timing really. The manager wasn’t
quite ready to start Paul in the team every week
and he wasn’t prepared to wait because he was
impatient to get on with it.
“Now he’s in tomorrow night’s Champions League
final and