2ndTouch
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No. He's an 18 year old kid who looked to his agent for advice.
It certainly allows for a nice "poor little clueless kid pulled from rapture by sinister agent and nasty foreign club"-narrative. And it has an elegance to it, too. Because he was a clueless kid back then, but now of course, it was a mature and conscious decision, totally not influenced by his agent.
At the time it was reported all the English big guns asked about Pogba. He was a player in demand.
If we assume Raiola's cut acts as 3rd party ownership, which is illegal in England, do we believe Raiola was laying out Pauls options and judging it on merit or was he manouvering Pogba towards Juve where he could legally get his share?
Do you think Raiola would forgo his 30% of one of the best youngsters in world football and advise him to move to Arsenal? Or stay at United?
I don't.
You are making a lot of assumptions with little to back it up. Sure, agents try to influence their clients. But I do believe in players having a brain and a will of their own. If Raiola had it easy with convincing Pogba to go elsewhere, then probably because something wasn't all roses like you want to believe. Juventus offered him perspectives, and obviously did a better job at it than your club back then.