“He wanted to keep me, but I’d made my decision to leave”, Pogba has said.
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Jose Mourinho believes Manchester United now have a player they can build their team around for the next decade after signing Paul Pogba.
He joined the Bianconeri from United in 2012.
Pogba also aired his feelings about his return to Manchester in an interview with MUTV and talked about the lure of working with the new manager José Mourinho.
Despite his advancing years, Ibrahimovic looks set to take the Premier League by storm during the upcoming campaign and Liverpool legend Souness has stated that the 34-year-old is exactly the type of personality United required to spark things at Old Trafford.
“In a ideal world, the core values of United are to play entertaining football, to bring kids through, homegrown players, and to win things”.
If, like Pies, you’ve heard Paul Pogba’s name (and purported transfer fee) so many times over the past month or so that it’s begun to sound like little more than a weird, meaningless abstract noise, then fret no longer.
“My mum told me I would come back here and I told her, ‘You never know, you’ll see, ‘” he said.
“I think they have been crying out for that”. It is thought that his agent and family were quick to agree a deal with Serie A giant, Juventus, keeping the United hierarchy in the dark.
United is one of the few clubs in world football that could afford this outlay, though.
The 23-year-old successfully passed his medical at Carrington yesterday and United chose to officially unveil Pogba as their latest signing at around 12.30am last night – presumably to take advantage of the U.S. and Asian markets.
United has finished seventh, fourth and fifth in the post-Ferguson years, but is one of the title favorites this season. For all the money that has been spent, we’ve not been able to keep Grade A players or incentivise them to come here in the first place. For a game against Blackburn in December 2011, Ferguson played full back Rafael da Silva in center midfield along with Park Ji-sung, with Pogba on the bench. “He is a great footballer and when you are Madrid you always want the best”, Real coach Zinedine Zidane had said before United wrapped up the deal for a player who scored 34 goals in 178 games for Juventus. “So at Man United, it can happen”.
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Pogba’s expensive return to Old Trafford follows a bitter split.
