The French midfielder, who left Turin in 2016 to go to Manchester United in exchange for €105 million, will return to Turin as a free agent
Paul Pogba is back in Turin. The French midfielder, who left Juventus six years ago to join Manchester United in exchange for €105 million, the highest amount ever paid for a footballer at the time, is returning to the Vecchia Signora as a free agent. with the red devils to start a new stage in Serie A.
The French midfielder landed in the Piedmont capital on Saturday to undergo the relevant medical examination at the JMedical, at whose gates about a thousand ‘tifosi’ awaited him, greeting him as the prodigal son returning home. Later, and with the doctors’ approval, he signed the contract that will link him to Juventus until June 30, 2026. He will have eight million euros net per season plus two in variables. An amount in any case significantly lower than the 15 kilos per year he received at Manchester United, where he did not live up to expectations in his second leg at Old Trafford.
Pogba, who had already worn the Manchester United shirt in the 2011-12 season, in which he played seven first-team appearances, returned to the Mancunian squad in the summer of 2016, when United broke the bench for a footballer who he declared himself runner-up in Europe with France. It was an express request from Jose Mourinho in light of the rearmament of the Red Devils.
That was one of Pogba’s best jobs wearing the British team jersey, crowned with the Europa League title won in Solna after beating Peter Bosz’s Ajax in the final. Pogba opened the scoring in the Swedish city, putting victory on track in the 18th minute that United would close with Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s goal. But after that season, both United and Pogba themselves entered a phase of ups and downs that prevented the French ‘box to box’ from displaying the qualities that had made him the most expensive footballer in the world and one of the pillars of the French world champion team in Russia 2018.
Now, after refusing to continue at Old Trafford, Pogba is becoming a luxury addition to Juventus, the club with which he established himself as one of the most powerful midfielders on the continent. Massimiliano Allegri fought to bring him back to the ranks of the Vecchia Signora and will position him as one of the axes of the rearmament of the Piemonte team, which aims to return to the top of Italian football after a disappointing campaign in which he failed to fight for the ‘Scudetto’, although he did manage to secure his presence in the next edition of the Champions League.
To regain their competitiveness, the Bianconero club has been bolstered this summer with two free-market stars such as Pogba and ngel Di María, another bargain that came free of charge after the contract with PSG expired. Together with the Italian Federico Chiesa or the Serbian Dusan Vlahovic, they must be two of the mainstays of a team that has lost stars of the caliber Paulo Dybala, Álvaro Morata, Federico Bernardeschi or the veteran Giorgio Chiellini.
Source: La Verdad
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