Paul Pogba has proven Roy Keane right as Erik ten Hag given golden Manchester United opportunity

When Manchester United's players emerge from the Stretford End tunnel a few minutes before 2pm on the first Sunday in August for their Premier League opener against Brighton, all eyes will be locked on any new signings.

United, who discovered their fixture list for the 2022/23 campaign on Thursday, promise to have a very different look by the time the first weekend of the new season arrives, even if all seems quiet on the transfer front as you're reading this column. The club has said farewell to 11 players already this summer, announcing their retained list a week ago.

Among those who will officially leave Old Trafford when their contracts expire on June 30 are Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard, Juan Mata, Nemanja Matic and Edinson Cavani, meaning the club has already significantly cut its annual wage bill before they even get to the stage of offloading figures who remain under contract. But while the likes of Matic, Mata and Lingard have said au revoir with a train of supportive messages in tow, Pogba has issued not one but two parting shots, meaning he has not received the same treatment from the fans.

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A little over a week after appearing to aim a sly dig at United by admitting that he hoped to find happiness in his next chapter, the Frenchman has produced another bombshell, saying that United offered him "nothing" in their attempts to tie him down to a new contract. That is simply untrue; United offered him a new deal amounting to £290,000-a-week.

Speaking in a documentary that has been produced by Amazon Prime called 'The Pogmentary,' the Frenchman, speaking with his late agent, Mino Raiola, said: "Did Manchester (United) make a second offer?"

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