After six years at Manchester United, the French player will find a club where he evolved between 2012 and 2016, announced the Italian team on Monday.
Le Monde with AFP
Manchester United had formalized his departure on 1 er June, putting to a final point at six years mixed in the club where he had arrived in superstar in 2016 before knowing injuries and disillusions, despite the Conquest of the Europa League 2017. Monday, July 11, Juventus Turin announced the return of Paul Pogba.
“Paul is back in Turin, he left being young, he is back by having become an extraordinary man and player,” wrote Juve in a statement, without specifying the duration of the contract. The French international, world champion in 2018, had already evolved at Juve between 2012 and 2016.
Paul Pogba, who was present on Sunday on the resumption of collective training of Turin players, made the choice to find a known framework where he had triumphed in the past, including four titles of Italian champion and one Champions League final in 2015.
For French as for Juve, the objective is to find some of this lost chandelier. Because the “old lady”, after a record of consecutive nine scudetti (2012 to 2020) has been ejected from the top 3 in Italy in the past two seasons and unable to climb in the quarter -finals of the C1 since 2019.
Impatiently awaited by coach Massimiliano Allegri, in search of character in his team, Paul Pogba finds the opportunity to bounce back a few months from the World Cup in Qatar (from November 21 to December 18) , after a complicated season in Manchester.
The only doubt is the state of form of pogba, not spared from injuries in recent seasons, while Juve has precisely suffered this season from many physical seeds from its executives.