United’s initial offer was made during a meeting between executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola and Juventus’ general manager and CEO Giuseppe Marotta.
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The whooping 100-million-pound bid, however, has a clause in which 13 million of that will be performance-related add-ons.
Pogba would be paid £250,000 a week, four years after he left United to join Juventus.
He is now among the world’s most valuable players, and the Guardian says United offered a transfer package worth £100million to the Serie A champions.
Mourinho demands strong fitness levels at his clubs, and wants only the fittest of players.
Pogba himself is understood to be relaxed about his position as he would accept a move to United but would also be happy to stay at his current club. Do I like Pogba?
Raiola has already overseen the transfers of two of his players, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, to United this summer.
The squad, which was announced early on Tuesday, will play games against Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City whilst in China.
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Manchester United’s 25-man squad for Far East tour: De Gea, Romero, Johnstone, Bailly, Blind, Fosu-Mensah, Jones, McNair, Rojo, Shaw, Smalling, Tuanzebe, Valencia, Carrick, Herrera, Januzaj, Lingard, Mata, Memphis, Mkhitaryan, A.Pereira, Young, Keane, Rashford, Rooney.
