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Manchester United finally sign Pogba
09 Aug 2016 at 03:49hrs | Views
MANCHESTER - Manchester United have clinched the £110 million world record capture of Paul Pogba. Pogba arrived in England yesterday for his Manchester United medical.
He was set to complete a world-record move from Juventus to Old Trafford with just the formalities left to be completed late yesterday.
Pogba arrived in England yesterday with agent Mino Raiola to sign the relevant paperwork ahead of being unveiled as the world's most-expensive footballer.
Pogba was joined in England by his mother Yeo Moriba, who travelled in a different car behind her son heading for Carrington.
The box-to-box midfielder, still just 23, landed at Manchester Airport yesterday morning after jetting in from New York where he has been on holiday.
His return comes four years after leaving Old Trafford for just £800 000 in compensation.
The transfer looks like it will conclude United's incoming business this summer after Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Eric Bailly all moved to Manchester.
And Jose Mourinho reckons the Frenchman has joined the "perfect club" to become the best player in the world.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic completed a good day for Mourinho by firing United to a Community Shield win over champions Leicester not long after it emerged his No.1 midfield target Pogba was on the brink of sealing his return to Old Trafford.
The Frenchman, who quit the club four years ago for just £800 000 compensation, was having a medical yesterday after United agreed a £90million with Juventus.
United will also shell out around another £20million in fees to Pogba's agent Mino Raiola.
Pogba will sign a five-year deal worth £220 000-per-week after tax and become Mourinho's fourth signing once he passes his medical, which the United boss expects to be a formality.
He said: "(We will sign him) If he goes well in the medical which I think he goes because I see on Instagram he does kung fu, running, basketball, football so he must be fit.
"So on Tuesday (today) I will be there waiting for him. United is the perfect club to bring him to the level he wants to be. The Premier League is the perfect habitat for that.
"If you want to be the best player in the world, if you go to Barcelona or Real Madrid you are in trouble because I don't think other two big guys (Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo) will let you develop into that level.
"Here he has the conditions to develop in the most seen world wide championship, which is incredible, with a team that wants to bring Manchester United to the top again.
"So we have everything to give him and we know the reasons why he wants to come to us. Money, he would get in any big club. That is not the point.
"So he comes because he knows the club, the city, many of the players and wants to be an important part of the Man United project so hopefully everything goes well and he comes to United."
On Pogba's eye-watering fee, which will eclipse the £86million Real Madrid shelled out for Gareth Bale, Mourinho said: "Football is crazy. The market has become is crazy. What you think this season is crazy you realise three years later is not crazy anymore.
"And there are players that cost £10million that are super expensive because they are players who are really £500 000.
"So what is expensive? I don't know any more. I just know he is a big player that is going to be important for a big club like Manchester United and every Manchester United fan around the word will be proud to belong to such a big club.
"I don't think Real Madrid was upset when they broke the record with Gareth Bale with Cristiano Ronaldo."
He was set to complete a world-record move from Juventus to Old Trafford with just the formalities left to be completed late yesterday.
Pogba arrived in England yesterday with agent Mino Raiola to sign the relevant paperwork ahead of being unveiled as the world's most-expensive footballer.
Pogba was joined in England by his mother Yeo Moriba, who travelled in a different car behind her son heading for Carrington.
The box-to-box midfielder, still just 23, landed at Manchester Airport yesterday morning after jetting in from New York where he has been on holiday.
His return comes four years after leaving Old Trafford for just £800 000 in compensation.
The transfer looks like it will conclude United's incoming business this summer after Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Eric Bailly all moved to Manchester.
And Jose Mourinho reckons the Frenchman has joined the "perfect club" to become the best player in the world.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic completed a good day for Mourinho by firing United to a Community Shield win over champions Leicester not long after it emerged his No.1 midfield target Pogba was on the brink of sealing his return to Old Trafford.
The Frenchman, who quit the club four years ago for just £800 000 compensation, was having a medical yesterday after United agreed a £90million with Juventus.
United will also shell out around another £20million in fees to Pogba's agent Mino Raiola.
Pogba will sign a five-year deal worth £220 000-per-week after tax and become Mourinho's fourth signing once he passes his medical, which the United boss expects to be a formality.
He said: "(We will sign him) If he goes well in the medical which I think he goes because I see on Instagram he does kung fu, running, basketball, football so he must be fit.
"So on Tuesday (today) I will be there waiting for him. United is the perfect club to bring him to the level he wants to be. The Premier League is the perfect habitat for that.
"If you want to be the best player in the world, if you go to Barcelona or Real Madrid you are in trouble because I don't think other two big guys (Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo) will let you develop into that level.
"Here he has the conditions to develop in the most seen world wide championship, which is incredible, with a team that wants to bring Manchester United to the top again.
"So we have everything to give him and we know the reasons why he wants to come to us. Money, he would get in any big club. That is not the point.
"So he comes because he knows the club, the city, many of the players and wants to be an important part of the Man United project so hopefully everything goes well and he comes to United."
On Pogba's eye-watering fee, which will eclipse the £86million Real Madrid shelled out for Gareth Bale, Mourinho said: "Football is crazy. The market has become is crazy. What you think this season is crazy you realise three years later is not crazy anymore.
"And there are players that cost £10million that are super expensive because they are players who are really £500 000.
"So what is expensive? I don't know any more. I just know he is a big player that is going to be important for a big club like Manchester United and every Manchester United fan around the word will be proud to belong to such a big club.
"I don't think Real Madrid was upset when they broke the record with Gareth Bale with Cristiano Ronaldo."
Source - The Mirror.
