{"id":4275,"date":"2019-08-08T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:33:43","slug":"revealed-zinedine-zidane-is-fuming-with-real-madrid-president-over-failed-pursuit-of-paul-pogba-with-manchester-united-holding-firm-on-keeping-french-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/08\/revealed-zinedine-zidane-is-fuming-with-real-madrid-president-over-failed-pursuit-of-paul-pogba-with-manchester-united-holding-firm-on-keeping-french-star\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED: Zinedine Zidane is FUMING with Real Madrid president over failed pursuit of Paul Pogba, with Manchester United holding firm on keeping French star"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Zinedine Zidane wanted to rebuild the Real Madrid team in his image<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The French boss wanted Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez to leave the club<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Zidane then wanted Eden Hazard and Paul Pogba to replace both of them<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>There has so far been no big-money offers for Bale and Rodriguez this summer<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a id=\"mol-8d807620-b9bb-11e9-b477-314ad3142d27\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/teampages\/real-madrid.html\">Real Madrid<\/a> are becoming increasingly resigned to not signing <a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/paul_pogba\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Pogba<\/a>, leaving coach<a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/zinedine-zidane\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Zinedine Zidane<\/a> feeling let down by the club\u2019s president Florentino Perez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Zidane returned in March and wanted to rebuild the team in his image with Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez leaving for big money and Eden Hazard and Paul Pogba replacing them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But there has so far been no big-money offers for Bale and Rodriguez and as a consequence Real Madrid have been unable to make a serious bid for Pogba.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e12a7239a5f45ee0\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/08\/08\/10\/17037012-0-image-a-22_1565256787908.jpg\" alt=\"Zinedine Zidane will be clock-watching on Thursday to see if Manchester United sign anyone\" width=\"634\" height=\"490\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">\u00a0Zinedine Zidane will be clock-watching on Thursday to see if Manchester United sign anyone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-fcf3c09c551beb79\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/08\/08\/10\/17036154-7336667-image-a-11_1565255294122.jpg\" alt=\"But Real Madrid are becoming increasingly resigned to not signing United star Paul Pogba\" width=\"634\" height=\"426\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">But Real Madrid are becoming increasingly resigned to not signing United star Paul Pogba<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mol-c7c00070-b9bc-11e9-b477-314ad3142d27\" class=\"art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS sport\" data-version=\"2\" data-permabox-url=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-7336667\/Zinedine-Zidane-left-disappointed-Real-Madrid-president.html\">\n<h3 class=\"mol-factbox-title\">POGBA 2018-19 STATS<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ins cleared mol-factbox-body\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Apps: <\/span>47<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Goals:<\/span> 16<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Assists:<\/span> 11<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Yellow cards:<\/span> 6<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Red cards:<\/span> 1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Zidane will be clock-watching on Thursday to see if Manchester United sign anyone likely to indicate that they are prepared to let Pogba leave before September 2, when the market shuts in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">If there is no such movement then he will accept that his pre-season transfer requests have not been granted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">His response to Madrid\u2019s midfield shortcomings in the club\u2019s penultimate friendly of the summer against Salzburg on Wednesday night was to play three central defenders and two wing-backs. That seemed to protect his lightweight midfield with Isco and Toni Kroos aided by the return of the more physical Casemiro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Madrid could take the new system into the new season if there are no recruits although the club are still keen on signing Donny van de Beek from Ajax or Christian Eriksen from Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Zidane has said he wants neither and will only be satisfied by Pogba\u2019s arrival, but save for a late twist before 5pm United will have resisted his attempts to recruit his compatriot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-cd05b3e2daa1fee3\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/08\/08\/10\/17037016-0-image-a-23_1565256792963.jpg\" alt=\"This has left Zidane feeling let down by the club\u2019s president, Florentino Perez\" width=\"634\" height=\"435\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">This has left Zidane feeling let down by the club\u2019s president, Florentino Perez<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source:dailymail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zinedine Zidane wanted to rebuild the Real Madrid team in his image The French boss wanted Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez to leave the club Zidane then wanted Eden Hazard and Paul Pogba to replace both of them There has so far been no big-money offers for Bale and Rodriguez this summer Real Madrid are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[1351,195,8927,7478,8908,1718,5346,6351,11252,115,10742,10481,5612,12287,349,10535,3805,196,10599,9583,1908,4293,7333,5516,723,3954,193,163],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ajax","tag-bale","tag-christian","tag-christian-eriksen","tag-coach","tag-eden-hazard","tag-eriksen","tag-french","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-market","tag-midfield","tag-money","tag-movement","tag-paul-pogba","tag-pogba","tag-president","tag-real-madrid","tag-rebuild","tag-recruits","tag-salzburg","tag-spain","tag-summer","tag-toni","tag-tottenham","tag-will","tag-zidane","tag-zinedine-zidane"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52054,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions\/52054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}