Pogba’s France teammate Blaise Matuidi is United’s fallback option should Pogba decide against returning to England’s north-west.
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Real Madrid are now at a pre-season training camp in Canada ahead of the International Champions Cup game against Paris Saint-Germain, and Zidane wants everyone’s focus on the job in hand rather than who could yet come into the club over the closing weeks of the summer transfer window.
Great news for Manchester United supporters as Paul Pogba transfer to Old Trafford is officially underway.
The Red Devils have reportedly lodged a bid worth around £100m, including add-ons and performance related bonuses, but the Old Lady are determined to hold on to their prized asset for at least one more season.
There were reports on Wednesday night that Real Madrid had been in contact with Juventus in order to try to hijack the deal but United and Raiola are confident that the player will sign for the Premier League club.
The former Leeds United star claims the investment in signing Pogba could benefit the 20-time English champions on a long run as he believes the Juventus star will become the best midfielder in the world.
Real Madrid are the only other club the player could join, although the Spanish club’s manager, Zinedine Zidane, admitted earlier this week that he is happy with his current squad.
Despite agent Mino Raiola denying to Goal.com on Tuesday that talks were underway, a number of reports in the United Kingdom and Italy have also claimed that United began negotiations with Juve on Tuesday. Anyone who has the opportunity to leave Juventus has to consider things very carefully, because right now Juve are among the top four European clubs.
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New United boss Jose Mourinho recently spoke of four priority targets in the transfer window and playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s capture marked their third acquisition following the arrivals of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and centre-back Eric Bailly.
