The latest recruit to Mourinho’s new team is France worldwide midfielder Paul Pogba who has rejoined the side he left just four years ago for £800,000, but this time has cost United a cool £89million from Juventus.
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He added: “Where you could approximately value a player before, today the identity of a club that comes in for a transfer is more important than the rest”.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted that new signee Paul Pogba is a flawless fit for Manchester United, believing English clubs are forced to pay over the odds to buy footballers from overseas.
Paul, 23, has been with Juventus for four seasons, making 124 appearances and scoring 28 goals.
Feast your eyes on the first official Pogba screenshot in his new Manchester United shirt, which you’ll see in Federation Internationale de Football Association 17 career mode when playing through The Journey.
People may look at his personal stats and think they’re well under what a £89m player should be producing but if on a deeper and more subtle level he helps the club to win trophies then that’s all that really matters.
Pogba won four league titles in four seasons in Italy, but that ultimately wasn’t enough to keep him in Serie A. Could David Moyes or Louis van Gaal have persuaded Pogba to stay following seventh, fourth and fifth-place finishes in the Premier League?
“We don’t [didn’t] have what I used to call the second midfield player”.
And Carragher sees no reason why we shouldn’t think that the Red Devils have just bought the man who will become the best midfielder in the world.
“It was like I’d just come back home”. He will make me work harder and I feel this.
If there is one coach who can come close to knowing Pogba inside out, it is McGuinness.
However, re-joining the club he left in 2012 proved more alluring – even though United are readying themselves for Europa League action – given Pogba’s desire to get to the top individually and collectively.
“I remember watching him for the first time and he was a very leggy individual”, said the United legend and club ambassador. In Mkhitaryan, the side’s lack of creativity has been rectified. The partnerships of Marouane Fellaini, Bastian Schweinsteiger, who Bayern Munich were happy to get rid of because of his injury troubles, Michael Carrick, Ander Herrera and Morgan Schneiderlin aren’t the most mobile players.
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Pogba’s addition is a monumental boost to the entire quad, a statement of intent from the club and manager José Mourinho, and will greatly improve the grade that the midfield would have otherwise received here.
