Pogba ‘back home’ at Man United in world-record transfer

France global Paul Pogba is now a Manchester United player after a frantic 24 hours at Old Trafford.

Pogba has signed a five-year contract and returns to the club he left for next to nothing back in the summer of 2012.

“It is another player to fit in to our strong squad, there will be people fighting for places now and that is what you need at a top club like Manchester United to push us all on to win more trophies like this”.

While Mourinho feels the “unbelievable” Pogba “has everything”, he has stressed it may take time before the 23-year-old France worldwide is fully firing in the United side and has vowed to protect him if needed. Now it’s time to go back and forward, Old Trafford here I come! So I was thinking: ‘Why not?’ Not since United signed Juan Sebastian Veron in 2001 has an English top-flight club signed one of the genuine best players in the world, an individual any side would welcome – an icon. He joined Juventus, which reportedly had to pay 800,000 pounds (now around $1 million). The Champions League of course.

The Premier League has also struggled to attract players at the very top of the game, with no England-based players making the Ballon d’Or shortlist since 2008, when Cristiano Ronaldo and Fernando Torres finished first and third respectively.

Said the Sky TV pundit: “Can he come already – we have been hearing about it for a long time”.

Last season Lingard began to truly establish himself at his boyhood club and under Louis van Gaal, made 25 appearances and scored four goals. Similarly, Manchester City paid GBP 47 million for John Stones which has made him the second most expensive defender in the world after David Luiz (GBP 50 million).

“With the money we have in this league we have to be attracting not just the best managers but the best players. The wait was as annoying to me as it was to you”, Pogba wrote on his Instagram account.

“Pressure? No”, Crespo told me about how the price tag affected him.

“And we got them all before the start of the Premier League, when the transfer window only closes at the end of the month and it becomes normal, nearly a tradition, that people delay and delay and delay”. “I think it’s a reason to be proud with the dimension of a club that can do that and can attract players of this dimension”, he said.

“The thing with me is I only think about the pitch”.

“This is the right club for me to achieve everything I hope to in the game”, said Pogba. The early leak will likely have only fuelled additional hysteria surrounding the formal reveal but Adidas’ efforts create a sense that sponsors hold more sway over the choreography of big announcements in football. That’s why. I am focused about this and that’s it.

“For myself as well it’s a big challenge too, just to come back to where I came from, where I grew up, where I started”.