No one wants to pay for Pogba. That's about it. No club think he's worth 150-160m. We are both stuck with each other at the moment so he will have to perform.
There's a difference between not wanting to pay for Pogba and getting the biggest financial giant in world football to sell a player we don't want to sell.
The rest of it is just noise. Madrid cant afford this, plain and simple.
They've gone from signing who they want to linking themselves to elite players only to sneakily sign the cheaper alternatives instead.
Look at Neymar, Mbappe and Pogba. All could have joined Madrid before their last move but all refused. That doesn't matter though, they're Madrid players in spirit because of all the links so stand in awe of the might of Real.
Mbappe moves to PSG? All of a sudden the propaganda comes out 6 months later that they had the 180m fee ready to go.
Neymar about to move? Reports saying Perez has fee ready to go just when it looks too late and he's off to Barca.
One day the football world will cop on to this nonsense. Maybe when they start with Viniscus, Benzema and Jovetic in 2019 it will start to become clear.
They're waiting out contracts. Their financial might has lessened.
Doesn't mean they don't rate Pogba.