Whatever happens, his next contract will be the last big payday for Pogba and if he moves, for Raiola as well.
A 4 year deal elsewhere this summer, will take him to 32.5 years old.
If he leaves on a free and signs elsewhere next summer, a 4 year deal will see him reaching 33.5 yrs old by the end.
There won't be any big contracts after that, even if he's still fit enough to play.
Raiola will push for a move.
If Pogba really does want to leave and have one last chance of playing for a top European side, then he really can't hang around for more than one more year with Utd.
Selling now, assuming anyone will sign him on with a transfer fee, will save a years wages; rumoured to be somewhere between £13m & £16m, depending on who you believe.
With only one year left on his contract, if we managed to sell him this summer, we'd only get a fraction of what he might have been worth a couple of seasons ago.
Even if it was around the £20m mark, when you factor in the wages saved, that's a useful contribution towards a new player.
If it was possible to sell, I'd take the money. Otherwise we face getting nothing for him next year and wasting somewhere between £13m & £16m in wages to get another season's worth of inconsistency, with a few occasional good spells thrown it to give the fans false hope.
The last thing we want, is for Utd to throw stupid money at him to get him to sign a new deal.