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20th November 2017
03:57pm GMT

"No, they're different," Benitez told reporters.
"Stevie was a top-class player for so many years. He was very consistent and could make the difference in every game, with or without the ball. He was a top-class player. Pogba is a great player, but he still has to be consistent for years like Stevie was for 10 or 15 years. Pogba is not my player, so I don't need to talk too much about him. He's a great player, like the majority of the Manchester United players."The former Liverpool manager has a point, as it's probably too soon in Pogba's career to make any concrete comparisons between the players.
It's even more difficult to proclaim Pogba to be equal to Gerrard after a routine win over Newcastle at Old Trafford, regardless of how well he played in the game.
Gerrard was an excellent player for more than a decade for Liverpool and became a club legend. Pogba can achieve that status at United with consistent performances over the next decade. That's all Benitez appeared to be saying, but his comments managed to touch a nerve with some United fans.
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