Paul Pogba transfer: Is Mino Raiola playing Manchester United?

'Incendiary' tweets drive a wedge between club and player and add to the sense of turmoil at Old Trafford

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Mino Raiola represents Manchester United’s Paul Pogba, Romelu Lukaku and Sergio Romero
(Image credit: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images)

Paul Pogba’s Manchester United future appears in greater doubt than ever before after his agent’s broadside at Old Trafford legend Paul Scholes.

But although Barcelona, or another Spanish club, still have a week to sign him the World Cup winner’s short-term future may have been secured by the early closure of the English transfer window.

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