Mathias Pogba, who is currently a free agent, has failed to win a contract with KFC Uerdingen after taking in a recent trial period <\/p>\n
Mathias Pogba, the brother of Manchester United star Paul, has been snubbed by a German third division side for carrying too much weight.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old striker recently took in a trial with KFC Uerdingen.<\/p>\n
He is on the lookout for a new club after severing ties with Dutch outfit Sparta Rotterdam in 2017.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n The former Wrexham, Crewe, Crawly and Partick Thistle frontman has been a free agent since then, with a lack of playing duties having allowed him to join sibling Pogba in toasting World Cup success over the summer.<\/p>\n He had hoped to kick-start his own career after taking in that triumph, but has been unable to find a team willing to take a chance on him.<\/p>\n Injury issues have taken their toll, with Uerdingen coach Stefan Kramer suggesting that Pogba is currently too big to be considered for competitive action.<\/p>\n He told reporters after turning down the chance to do a deal with the Guinea international: “Mathias has already gone. He would not have been able to improve our team.<\/p>\n “He is not yet in good enough shape physically.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “Mathias is a big guy, and he has a good body for a number nine.<\/p>\n “But he still has too many kilos around his hips.”<\/p>\n Pogba has earned five international caps to date, while he also tasted Football League Trophy success with Crewe in 2013.<\/p>\n A stint at Gresty Road proved to be his most productive to date, with short stints at Pescara, Crawley, Partick and Sparta taken in since then.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mathias Pogba, who is currently a free agent, has failed to win a contract with KFC Uerdingen after taking in a recent trial period Mathias Pogba, the brother of Manchester United star Paul, has been snubbed by a German third division side for carrying too much weight. The 27-year-old striker recently took in a trial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n