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title: "Done Deal: United sign Pogba from Juventus"
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# Done Deal: United sign Pogba from Juventus

Manchester United have at long last negotiated a deal with Juventus for French midfielder Paul Pogba to return to Old Trafford. He signs a five-year contract with an option to extend for a further year.

United posted this teaser clip on Twitter to get fans hyped for the return of Pogba:

> Are you ready? [#POGBACK](https://twitter.com/hashtag/POGBACK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [https://t.co/Eihc6xTBsD](https://t.co/Eihc6xTBsD)
>
> — Manchester United (@ManUtd) [August 8, 2016](https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/762790605671927808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Pogba has taken to Twitter himself, posting a farewell video from his time at Juventus and thanking them for everything they’ve done for him:

> [pic.twitter.com/XONg2ypQjT](https://t.co/XONg2ypQjT)
>
> — Paul Pogba (@paulpogba) [August 8, 2016](https://twitter.com/paulpogba/status/762792109053181956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Thanks [@juventusfc](https://twitter.com/juventusfc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) and all Juventini. Goodbye means nothing, it is the time we spent together that matters 🙏🏾❤
>
> — Paul Pogba (@paulpogba) [August 8, 2016](https://twitter.com/paulpogba/status/762792798819127297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

His agent, Mino Raiola, then jumped in on the act:

> THE MAN IS UNITED
>
> — RAIOLA (@MinoRaiola) [August 8, 2016](https://twitter.com/MinoRaiola/status/762791821386866692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

And then finally, at 12:35am, Manchester United [make the announcement](https://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Football-News/2016/Aug/manchester-united-sign-paul-pogba.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=ManUtd) we had all been waiting for…

> REUNITED: [https://t.co/VFkDJ05zuf](https://t.co/VFkDJ05zuf) [#POGBACK](https://twitter.com/hashtag/POGBACK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [https://t.co/y68rpT0dob](https://t.co/y68rpT0dob)
>
> — Manchester United (@ManUtd) [August 8, 2016](https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/762794310530048000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

The fee for this return to the Red Devils is thought to be around world-record £89 million, plus a large fee to his agent, Mino Raiola; the same man who engineered the transfers of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan to United earlier this summer.

![Marco Luzzani/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readmanutd.com/readmanutd/2016/07/505103492.jpg)

The move reportedly makes Pogba the most expensive player in football history, £3 million more expensive than Gareth Bale in his move from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid, and £9 million dearer than Cristiano Ronaldo when moving from United, also to the Santiago Bernabeu. Juventus’ latest signing, Gonzalo Higuain, is now the fourth most expensive player ever, at £76 million.

The French midfielder had this to say about his return to Old Trafford.

> I am delighted to rejoin United. It has always been a club with a special place in my heart and I am really looking forward to working with José Mourinho. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Juventus and have some fantastic memories of a great club with players that I count as friends. But I feel the time is right to go back to Old Trafford. I always enjoyed playing in front of the fans and can’t wait to make my contribution to the team. This is the right club for me to achieve everything I hope to in the game.

Pogba, 23, left Manchester United in 2012, having run down his contract – many believe that Sir Alex Ferguson drove him out of the club, but the Scotsman has always maintained that he wanted to keep Pogba, and the Frenchman himself negotiated a way out of Manchester.

![Michael Regan/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readmanutd.com/readmanutd/2016/07/141138386.jpg)

When [interviewed by ESPN](https://www.diez.hn/internacionales/979849-99/paul-pogba-le-hace-gui%C3%B1o-a-cr7-cristiano-ronaldo-se-merece-el) earlier this summer, Paul was shown a Juventus shirt, a Real Madrid shirt and a Manchester United shirt, and was asked what each of them means to him.

Of the Juventus shirt, he said “That’s my team, my family, it’s where I am playing.” – whilst he said “They won the Champions League this year. They are a great club”, speaking about Real Madrid.

However, his answer about the United shirt was the most important:

> “It was my first family.”

It seems that, despite what happened a few years ago between the Frenchman and United, Pogba still has a love for the club – and this could have been what made him choose the Red Devils over Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid.