Ferguson was in charge at Manchester United when Pogba ran down his contract in 2012 and left the club for a nominal training allowance, joining Juventus.
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The last time an English club broke the world transfer record, it was all so straightforward.
As the United transfer – ridiculous transfer fee aside, it’s another hammer blow to the Reds’ chances of finishing in the top four, but it’s also amusing to see United pay through the nose to re-sign a player they sold for an equally ridiculous £800k.
Four years after leaving the club for Juve, Pogba has returned to United as one of the biggest stars in the game.
“When I heard some of the comments and heard some of the managers criticizing that, I don’t think they ever have this problem because, to have this problem, you need to be at one of the top clubs in the world”, Mourinho said. The amount is more than what Real Madrid paid for Bale (85 million pounds) in 2013, and Mourinho is right in saying that it’s all there for Pogba to become the best player in the world.
“My mum told me I would come back here and I told her, ‘You never know, you’ll see, ‘” he said. They made a meal out of this transfer and they ended up looking like a desperate man chasing after his ex-wife. “When I saw Scholes come back, part of me was really happy as he’s a legend, but I knew it was the end of me”.
Juventus has already spent most of the windfall from Pogba’s departure, signing Gonzalo Higuain from Italian rival Napoli for 90 million euros ($99 million) earlier this week.
The latest of manager Jose Mourinho’s new signings follows defender Eric Bailly, striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan into United.
Then Red Devils boss Sir Alex Ferguson said he did not think Pogba “showed us any respect at all” and has also described his own relationship with the player’s agent Mino Raiola as being “like oil and water”.
Paul Pogba is finally coming home. The 23-year-old is a box-to-box type so he’ll want license to get up and down the pitch meaning Michael Carrick may be his preferred partner, particularly in the big games.
Gary Neville hopes Premier League clubs will soon be able to compete with the very best in Europe again.
Rashford’s burst of pace and eye for goal makes him the ideal super sub for Mourinho this year, particularly if the side find it hard to break the opponents down – something that was already experienced last campaign.
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“And we got them all before the start of the Premier League, when the transfer window only closes at the end of the month and it becomes normal, nearly a tradition, that people delay and delay and delay”.
