Lastly, the former Le Havre youngster was keen to stress to United fans that he has come a long way from the prodigious but occasionally volatile talent who first joined the club as a 16-year-old in 2009.
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Watch behind the scenes footage from Manchester United as Paul Pogba meets staff on his return to Old Trafford. It’s just like, as I told you, it looks like I went for a holiday and I came back home.
United will pay the Italian champions 105m euros for Pogba, plus 5m euros (£4.5m) in performance-related bonuses and other costs, including 5m euros if Pogba signs a new contract.
Pogba, who combines physical strength with outstanding technique, scored eight goals and contributed 12 assists in Juve’s title-winning campaign last season.
‘The Champions League, of course, and personally one of my dreams is to win the Ballon d’Or. That will come with time and hopefully it will come but first I want to win the Premier League, which I have never done’.
He is the first world record signing by an English club since Newcastle United paid £15m to sign Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers in 1996.
“They would have played together in highly-skilled playground-type sessions and I’m sure you’ll see those skills coming out again in the Premier League”. I am ending an adventure that started very well and I am very happy because of that. That would take the overall transfer fee to £93.8m.
United is one of the few clubs in world football that could afford this outlay, though.
It appears a wrench to leave Turin but Pogba’s delight at returning to a club where he has unfinished business was palpable.
Ivory Coast defender Eric Bailly arrived for approximately £30m from Villarreal before they sealed the signing of Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic on a free transfer.
He’s at United now and talking to anyone who will listen. 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.
The Frenchman finalised his transfer on Monday night after weeks of speculation linked him with an Old Trafford move.
Pogba said: “I am delighted to rejoin United”.
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The Old Lady have confirmed exactly how much United forked out to re-sign a player they shipped for £700,000 in 2012. At 23, he has the chance to make that position his own here over many years.
