Over the following four years the France worldwide established himself as one of the top midfielders in European football and Manchester United have been forced to break the world transfer record to bring him back to England.
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Cole claims Pogba has the engine to get up and down the pitch, like an old-style box-to-box midfielder.
“It has always been a club with a special place in my heart and I am really looking forward to working with (manager) Jose Mourinho”, Pogba said in a statement on United’s official wesbite.
“He was obviously growing and his legs seemed to be doing a lot more than his body wanted them to do!”
United’s neighbours Manchester City made John Stones the most expensive defender in Premier League history on the heels of the Pogba deal and Wenger, who has struggled in the search for significant Arsenal additions following the early close-season capture of Granit Xhaka, believes the money coursing through English football is causing unpredictability. You look at the modern-day game, and there aren’t many players who can do that and he definitely can. Paul Pogba, 23, arrives from Juventus, rejoining the club that he left for a mere £1.5m four years ago, after failing to break into the first team.
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The Treble victor also feels it is a huge vote of confidence in the club’s future after they missed out on the Champions League.
“My mum told me I would come back here and I told her, ‘You never know, you’ll see, ‘” he said.
Pogba is the latest of Mourinho’s new signings following defender Eric Bailly, striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan as the Portuguese coach revamps the under-performing squad he inherited from Louis van Gaal.
“If I was [Sir] Alex Ferguson I would dare not set foot inside there anymore”. He identified a player and, nine times out of 10, got the player.
“The Champions League of course”.
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The 23-year-old said conversations with worldwide colleague Raphael Varane and Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata – who was on loan at Juventus last season – left him in no doubt Mourinho is the right man to help his career flourish. “He must be convinced by the future at United”.
