Hmmm, Juventus are interested too and I note press suggestions that they may sell Pogba to Chelski. If that goes through we may be blown out of the water - not for the first time.
His partner in all this is someone called Judith O'Hagan. One of the properties they own is a two-bedroom terraced house in Accrington that was subject to an enforcement notice by the local council early this year. The property was described as a "slum" that had been left to rot. They had reportedly failed to comply with Hyndburn Council's demands to carry out repairs on the house they had bought for £69,950 in 2007. This led to them being convicted in January of failing comply with the enforcement notice. They were fined £400 with £375 costs.
And in other news, Rodgers is having his portfolio of 102 houses valued as part of a divorce settlement. Been busy on the buy-to-let front. That doesn't include his £800,000 house in Berkshire, by the way.