United won´t intimidate Le Havre over Pogba

Manchester United chief executive David Gill said on Tuesday that the club had no intention of intimidating French second division side Le Havre over the acquisition of teenager Paul Pogba.

But Gill said after a European Club Association meeting here that the English Premier League giants would not allow themselves to “be insulted by Le Havre.”

Le Havre have accused United of offering the family of the youngster big sums of money to lure him away from the French club.

“We have no intention of intimidating Le Havre,” Gill told journalists.

“They can take the action and we’ll defend the action,” said Gill, insisting that the club had not offered inducements.

“We feel we have done everything by the book,” he stressed.

Manchester said in a statement that the transfer had been conducted entirely within world governing body FIFA’s rules and called comments by Le Havre president Jean-Pierre Louvel “wholly unfounded.”

United said Monday they had written to Le Havre “to put it on notice that action will be taken if such allegations are repeated in relation to the transfer of Paul Pogba.”