After six complicated years at Manchester United, Paul Pogba returns to Juventus Turin until 2026, the Italian team announced on Monday.
The “Pogback”. Paul Pogba, a great lover of portmanteau words with his surname, returns to Juventus Turin until 2026, announced Monday July 11 the Italian team, scene of the best years in the club of the French world champion, in search of forward bounce. the Mondial-2022.
“Paul is back in Turin, he left when he was young, he came back having become an extraordinary man and player,” Juve wrote in a statement, announcing the signing of a four-year contract.
In Italy, the daily La Gazzetta dello Sport mentions a salary of eight million euros per season, plus two million euros in bonuses.
“#Pogback”: this keyword has been circulating for more than two months on Italian social networks, relayed by tifosi counting on the French world champion (29 years old), at the end of his contract with the “Red Devils”, to give back from the garlands to a faded Juve. The “Old Lady”, after a record nine consecutive scudetti (2012 to 2020), has been ejected from the Top 3 in Italy for two seasons and unable to reach the quarter-finals of the C1 since 2019.
Pogba, who was present on Sunday when the Turin players resumed collective training, chose to return to a known setting where he had triumphed in the past (2012-2016), including four Italian championship titles and a final. Champions League in 2015.
Eagerly awaited by coach Massimiliano Allegri, in search of character in his team, the midfielder should have the opportunity to find playing time and regularity a few months before the World Cup in Qatar (November 21 -18 December), after a complicated season in Manchester. .
A complicated passage in Manchester
“ManU” formalized his departure on June 1, ending six mixed seasons at the club where he arrived as a superstar in 2016 after an astronomical transfer of some 105 million euros immobilized by his agent, Mino Raiola, who died last April . .
Because as much Pogba will have worn the Blues during the 2018 World Cup, as much as he will have struggled to put his mark on the “Red Devils”, a club where the former Le Havre had passed stealthily in 2011-2012 before joining Turin .
The star of the French, little supported by Mancunian supporters, declined at the same time as that of his club. On his record in England, Pogba has only one League Cup and one Europa League, two trophies dating from 2017.
“You have to be honest, it doesn’t satisfy me, but really not at all. Whether with Manchester or in another club, I want to win titles, ”he said in March in an interview with Le Figaro.
Off the field, the spring was also difficult with a burglary during a match, while his children were present at home, and the death of Mino Raiola. While his name has been regularly mentioned on the side of Paris SG, the child of Roissy-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne) has therefore chosen a city he knows well and a club where he knows he is desired.
“Where I Became a Man”
In Turin, “that’s where I became a man”, assures Pogba in the documentary devoted to his career on Prime Video.
In this recently posted series, Mino Raiola already seemed to have this idea in mind last summer when he encouraged his protege to find a club where he feels “like with the Blues”: “You are another Pogba with the Blues who” with Manchester. You are the real Pogba, the Pogba of Juventus, the Pogba everyone loves…” the agent said.
At Juventus, Pogba joins his France teammate Adrien Rabiot, although the latter could leave before the end of the summer.
With Pogba, Juve offers itself a player capable of making supporters dream, orphans of Paulo Dybala, appreciated by Juventus Stadium but not retained at the end of the contract and whose French will recover the n°10.
The only doubt is the state of form of the international, not spared by injuries in recent years, and this, while Juve has precisely suffered this season from many physical glitches on the part of its executives, from Chiellini to Bonucci. via Chiesa or Dybala.
With AFP
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