This surprise development comes from a report by Tuttosport, who claim Pogba wants a return to Juventus, with his agent Mino Raiola quoted as recently suggesting they were in no particular hurry to discuss a new deal with United.

Many Red Devils fans could be quite surprised by this apparent U-turn, as Sky Sports recently suggested the France international was now looking increasingly likely to commit his future to the club.

Pogba has endured a frustrating Man Utd career, having failed to really live up to high expectations on his shoulders since he joined from Juventus back in 2016.

The 27-year-old looked a world class performer at Juve and has shown some glimpses of his talent during his time at United, but at nowhere near the same level of consistency.

Still, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer could probably do without losing him, so fans will hope there can be more of a positive development on this saga in the near future.

That said, United have also done well to sign Donny van de Beek in midfield this summer, following on from the arrival of Bruno Fernandes in January, so are in a stronger position to cope without Pogba now than they were a year ago.

Football is the world most played and watched game with over 240 million people playing the game world wide

Football is played world wide by over 1.5 million teams and in 300,000 clubs however majority play outside the official sphere

Here are 7 football facts you should know

The Longest Penalty Shootout was in 2005 in the final of the Namibian cup between KK Palace and Civics.

The match had finished 2-2 in Normal time and the game had to be settled by penalties, 48 in total with KK Palace defeating Civics 17-16

The Shootout lasted almost as long as the game and a number of players had to take three spot kicks on each side.

33 were scored with 15 missed in the most bizarre penalty shoot out ever in the history of the game.

The Isles of Scilly Football League is the smallest official football league with just 2 clubs.

It involves the Woolpack Wanderers and the Garrison Gunners

The two clubs play each other seventeen times.

The two teams also contest for two cups

The Wholesalers Cup and the Foredeck Cup, which is played over two legs and the charity shield which begin before the league season

The league is played during the winter, from mid-November until the end of March.

The Woolpack Wanderers have won the championship most and are the current champions

3 The Most goals scored in A World Cup Tournament

The most goals ever scored in a FIFA world cup tournament was by a Frenchman Just Fontaine, scoring 13 goals in 1958

Closest to him was kocsis in 1954,Gerd Müller in 1970 and Portugal's Eusébio in 1966, with 11, 10 and 9, respectively.

The most strange football league structure is the Tasmanian NPL consisting of 8 teams who play each other twice in a straight league format

The top six then advance to the play off to fight for the championship much like the Austrian Bundedliga, only they are joined by the two winners of the leagues (North and South ).

Which means they is a good chance that the team that didn't contest in the top flight gets a chance to win the championship.

The fastest hatrick was scored by Alex Torr in a Sunday league game in 2013. The time is 70 seconds.

Speaking of weird league format, the 1950 world cup was decided by a four team final group involving hosts Brazil, Spain, Uruguay and Sweden.

Brazil had beaten Sweden and spain 7-1 and 6-1 respectively having collected 4 points while Uruguay drew 2-2 with Spain and edged the Swedes 3-2

The final went down between the two South Americans in the iconic Maracana, Rio de Jeneiro where Uruguay had to comeback to beat Brazil 2-1

The Highest goals ever scored in a football game was in Madagascar in a league game between AS Adema And SO l'Emyrne on 31st October 2002 which ended 149-0

SO l'Emyrne scored 149 own goals as a form of protest for being robbed of the title because of a penalty between AS Adema.

Their opponent could do nothing but stand and looked bemused. It was one of the most silly game ever that the spectators stormed the ticket booths demanded refunds.

The Manager and four players of SOE were banned (including the Madagascan national team captain) for three years.

The Bayern attacker has an incredible record of having won league titles in every single kseason he has played as a professional.

He won the 2012/13 and 2013/14 Ligue 1 with PSG, the 2014-15 and 2015-16 with Juventus,

And won five consecutive titles with Bayern Munich (2015-16,2016-17,2017-18,2018-19 and 2019-20)

Dundee united have played Barcelona four times and have won all of them

The two teams first met in second round of the inter -cities Fairs cup in the 1966-67 season , beating the catalans 2-1 in Spain before winning the return leg 2-0 in Scotland

They met again in the 1987 UEFA Cup quarter finals where a one nil win in Scotland was followed by a 2-1 comeback win at the Camp Nou.

You're probably wondering what links these two clubs together

Athletic Bilbao didn't original wore the red and white stripes instead the wore a kit similar to Blackburn Rovers.

A young student (Juan Elorduy ) from Bilbao who was spending Christmas in London was charged to buy 25 new shirts by the club.

Waiting for the ship empty handed he discovered that the colours Southampton matched that of Bilbao so he took 50 shirts to take with him.

The club decided to change the kit immediately Elorduy arrived with them and sent half of it to Atletico Madrid.

Before this only Sporting Gijon were known to have worn red and white.