Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola will earn a hefty €20m fee from this deal to bring back the midfielder to Old Trafford after a span of three seasons.
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The move will complete a remarkable rise and return for Pogba, who moved from United to Juventus on a free transfer in the summer of 2012.
Sources have told ESPN FC that Real Madrid have made contact with Juve over Pogba, 23, but that United remain favourites to land the France global, and both Sky Sport Italia and Gazzetta dello Sport have reported that an agreement could be reached by the end of the week.
“Everyone’s here, that’s all I can say now”.
While Pogba is arriving in Manchester, a number of players are expected to leave, either on loan or permanently.
The Frenchman, while still coy about the potential move, asserted that Real are always interested in the best players and that “anything can happen” before the transfer window is up.
The report claims Pogba has already passed his United medical in Los Angeles before putting pen to paper on a five-year deal worth £290,000 a week.
“The day that this is football, I’m not in a job any more, because the game is about playing together”.
Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale is now the world’s most expensive footballer, having joined Real Madrid from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013 for a fee of 100m euros, while teammate Cristiano Ronaldo is in second place after his 94m euro transfer from Manchester United in 2009.
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This signing would cap a busy summer for Mourinho after moves for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Eric Bailly and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
