After six years at Manchester United, Paul Pogba returns to Juventus. The Italian team, theater of the best years of the French international environment (2012-2016), announced it.
Out of sensations and lacking trophies in England, the 2018 world champion (29) arrives free at Juve, six years after his resounding transfer to the ‘Red Devils’ for 105 million euros, a record at the ‘era.
“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, without specifying the duration of the contract.
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, with in particular four Italian championship titles and a League of Nations final. champions in 2015.
For the French as for Juve, the objective is to regain some of this lost luster. Because the ‘Old Lady’, after a record nine consecutive scudetti (2012 to 2020) has been ejected from the Top 3 in Italy for the past two seasons and unable to reach the quarter-finals of the C1 since 2019.
Off the field, his start to 2022 was also difficult with a burglary during a match, while his children were present at home, and the death of his historic agent, the Italian Mino Raiola.
The only doubt is Pogba’s state of form, not spared by injuries in recent seasons, while Juve has suffered precisely this season from many physical glitches from its executives.
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