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Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish has been linked to Manchester United for some time, so transfer narratives regarding his making a potential move to Old Trafford are nothing new. However, today’s report is extremely unique and extraordinary, in light of global current events.

Grealish, who made a public service announcement this past weekend advising people to stay home admist the coronavirus pandemic, was caught the very next morning practicing the total opposite of what he preaches.

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During the shelter in place orders that we’re all under, we do our best to stay entertained and keep our minds from spinning out of control. With no sports of any kind, for the foreseeable future, to consume we also have to find our sports fix wherever we can.

With that in mind, check out what Paul Pogba did here, a football trick that ends with a basketball flavor. The Frenchman, training from his at home Paul Pogba stadium posted some razzle dazzle on Instagram.

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Manchester United, along with the rest of global football (except for the Belarusian teams), are off indefinitely, so let’s do some transfer talk instead. If there’s one thing that can survive a global pandemic, it’s transfer rumors.

We start with a return to the Erling Haaland narrative from late 2019, early 2020. United have extensive connections to the Norwegian wonderkid, via manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but they squandered their advantage in the January transfer window because they were not interested in meeting agent Mino Raiola’s demands.

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The Premier League season is on hiatus until the end of the next coming month, and likely considerably longer. Almost every aspect of the 2019-20 PL season is up in the air right now, but players have to stay in shape and be ready to go when the call to resume the action finally arrives.

How they’re doing that, while also maintaining the rules of social distancing and staying in quarantine can prove to be a challenge. Footballers have to get creative, as we’ve seen on multiple occasions, and United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has a solution that definitely taps in to that spirit of creativity.

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