Transfer information with Real Madrid: Paul Pogba stays on hold while Blancos struggles to unload Gareth Bale, James Rdoriguez & Isco

Real Madrid are still eager to land Paul Pogba from Manchester United this summer, but any deal will depend on Merengue leaving more stars to free up funds for the French international.

Although the possible transfer has been extremely slow since the opening of the transfer window, Pogba remains a priority for Zinedine Zidane.

The Blancos are ready to move the stone and the earth to make the agreement possible, although it is not an easy operation.

At the moment, negotiations are at a standstill, and two factors, according to Madrid, are imperative.

First of all, as Goal learned, United must be willing to discuss the conditions of their star; and Madrid must also increase sales. As long as these conditions are not met, Pogba will not arrive in Santiago Bernabeu in the near future.

Until now, United has even refused to talk about the subject. At the press conference on Tuesday, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was provocative: "There has been a lot of talk and speculation about many of our players, both in and out, and for me, things go as usual. .

"As far as I know and up to now, we have no bids for any of our players … Paul, or most of our players, [have] obtained long contracts. "

Pogba and his agent Mino Raiola, however, have always sought to move, even if it had little effect. The Frenchman, who could even go as far as making an official transfer request, was to join his teammates at their preseason camp in Australia on Sunday.

Meanwhile, in Madrid, the club knows that it can not sue Pogba until other names have been removed. So far this summer, seven players have left: Luca Zidane, Theo Hernandez, Sergio Reguilon, Marcos Llorente, Mateo Kovacic, Martin Odegaard and Raul De Tomas, who have injected 125 million euros into the coffers of the club.

This is not enough, however, according to Bernabeu officials. After totaling the figures, including the 300 million euros spent to date for new signatures, they do not add up. On its own, Pogba would cost between 150 and 180 million additional euros, which would imply that Madrid should get roughly the same figure to stay in financial fair play at the end of the window.

The main candidates for the transition are Gareth Bale, Isco and James Rodrigez. Between them, they could generate more than enough to land in Pogba.

Their success or inability to part with the trio will be the key to what could be the biggest transfer of the season for Zidane's men.

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For this reason, Madrid has imposed the rule of not giving up a single player. Paradoxically, the feeling is that players like Keylor Navas and Bale are attracting very little attention in the market so that they are meant for sale early in the summer, with the blessing of Zidane, the coach hoping to do without their services before the start of the season. preseason.

In general, the club has followed his guidelines, as he has shown with Llorente, Theo, Kovacic and De Tomas. Napoli, who is besieged, knows this very well because he is asking for James' loan rather than a costly and permanent move.

As long as Pogba stays on their radar, this position will not change.