United will hope the 23-year-old Pogba saves his best work for the football field.
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Those performances sparked interest from Arsenal and Juventus, but United won the race to Pogba’s signature.
He stayed out for four months due to a ban but returned to help Barcelona to a historic La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League treble in his first season.
“That will come with time, hopefully, but first I want to win the Premier League, which I have never done”. Having seen Pogba depart for Italy without a single first-team start to his name, the Red Devils surely can’t have foreseen forking out over £200 million for the midfielder to return to the north-west of England. “I just went for a holiday”, Pogba said. I won’t say I’m going to ask for another midfielder because I don’t know how we’re going to play everyone.
Pirlo said players “do not care at all” about transfer fees, explaining: “That is just something a player leaves to his agent and the clubs”.
The deal is great news for Adidas, concludes the website, as one of the brand’s biggest stars is now playing for a team it already sponsors in the world’s most popular league.
In his previous spell with United, Pogba made just seven appearances – all during the 2011-12 season – including three in the Premier League, three in the Capital One Cup and one in the Europa League.
United has finished seventh, fourth and fifth in the post-Ferguson years, but is one of the title favorites this season.
“We had mixed aged-group sessions where the older players would mix with the younger ones, Pogba and Jesse Lingard were the same age but also with Marcus Rashford”. Those are the two big things you need to be a success at United.
Now playing in the MLS with New York City, Pirlo played with the France worldwide in the Juventus midfield for three years and is confident he has the talent to succeed at Old Trafford.
That was the last straw for a player who was desperate for a chance to impress his manager. I came back. I’ve not come back from the Academy now; I went to play somewhere else and I came back, I would say, as a person, as an adult.
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“I am delighted to rejoin United”.
