MANCHESTER UNITED’S record signing Paul Pogba is reportedly on the verge of quitting football following Eamon Dunphy’s scathing assessment of the player’s display in the Manchester Derby at the weekend.
“I don’t care what Mourinho says, or the texts of support I’ve gotten from Pirlo, Messi, Buffon. Eamon’s opinion was always the one I valued the most,” Pogba explained in a cryptic message on his Instagram account which followed a video of the player sobbing while throwing his football boots in a bin.
The €100 million man was a passenger in a Machester Derby, which saw his manager outwitted tactically by Man City boss Pep Guardiola, leaving RTÉ’s Dunphy free to reign down excoriating criticism on a player the majority of the football world admits is ‘not shit’.
“He’s petulant, a prima Donna, a pony, and a number of other words beginning with ‘p’ which escape me now,” Dunphy declared in an interview on 2FM’s Game On, ” a fraud, a fake, a fatuous footballer. Inflated ego, inflated price, deflated performance. He is a footballer without a compass, who plays like an explorer in search of a bad haircut,” the former Millwall player explained to the footballing public.
Dunphy went on to score Pogba a zero on his patented ‘Dunphy Scale of Guile’, the lowest score to ever be given to a player.
Pogba’s imminent retirement from the game follows a similar path trodden by once promising former player Cristiano Ronaldo, who quit the game some years ago after Dunphy correctly claimed the player had no future in the game.
“Criticism from Pele, I can take, he’s achieved nothing in the game, but Eamon? I am crushed, I will never kick a ball again” Pogba admitted in a separate social media post.
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