{"id":614164,"date":"2022-06-23T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614164"},"modified":"2022-06-23T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:56:05","slug":"paul-pogba-juventus-free-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/23\/paul-pogba-juventus-free-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Pogba Returns to Juventus on Free Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Pogba is making his long-awaited return to Juventus on a free transfer, as confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1540019104488329220\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman has <a href=\"\/football\/2022\/05\/16\/decisive-meeting-paul-pogba-and-juventus\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">long been linked<\/a> with a move away from Manchester United, and reports suggested that he was set on returning to Turin.<\/p>\n<h2>Paul Pogba Re-Signs for Juventus<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paul Pogba to Juventus, confirmed and here we go! Full agreement now completed on a free transfer. Deal to be signed at the beginning of July, it\u2019s done and sealed. \ud83d\udea8\u26aa\ufe0f\u26ab\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Juve?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Juve<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pogba will be in Italy in two weeks. Juve sold him for \u20ac100m six years ago &#8211; now he\u2019s back for free. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YNyyOlmSUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/YNyyOlmSUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1540019104488329220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>History Repeats Itself, Again<\/h3>\n<p>Pogba has made a return to one of his former clubs once before. This time, he&#8217;s returning to Juventus where he previously spent four of the most successful years of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman moved back to United from Juventus in 2016 for a club-record \u00a390 million. It&#8217;s fair to say the last six seasons have been inconsistent for Pogba.<\/p>\n<p>United triggered a one-year extension in Pogba&#8217;s contract to keep him at Old Trafford until 2022. They also offered the player a further extension last season with a reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/12635023\/paul-pogba-filmed-complaining-about-man-utds-latest-contract-offer-they-offered-me-nothing\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a3300,000 per week contract<\/a>, but he rejected that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/23\/manchester-united-transfer-target-antony-expensive\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Targeting Brazilian Winger but He Won&#8217;t Come Cheap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite reports that Pogba rejected United&#8217;s latest contract offer in the hope of more money, he&#8217;ll likely be taking a pay cut to return to Juventus who don&#8217;t have the financial firepower of Manchester United.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paul Pogba\u2019s agent will meet with Juventus tomorrow to complete the negotiations for his comeback. It\u2019s just matter of final details then deal will be signed. \u26aa\ufe0f\u26ab\ufe0f\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Juventus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Juventus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pogba only wanted Juventus and he\u2019s expected in Italy for medicals at the beginning of July. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SkySport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cu54M0w1Aj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/cu54M0w1Aj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1539716800245547010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Pogba&#8217;s big-money wages off the books, United will hope to invest more money into incomings this summer.<\/p>\n<h3>Searching for Success<\/h3>\n<p>Paul Pogba enjoyed an extremely successful first term at Juventus, both personally and with the club. He played some of the best football of his career and won a glutton of trophies, including four Serie A titles.<\/p>\n<p>Juventus will also be hoping Pogba can rediscover the form he showed during his first spell at the club. The <em>Bianconeri<\/em> have missed out on the Serie A title for the last two seasons, with the teams that share the San Siro taking home the Scudetto in 2021-22 (AC Milan) and 2020-21 (Inter Milan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Pogba is making his long-awaited return to Juventus on a free transfer, as confirmed by Fabrizio Romano. The Frenchman has long been linked with a move away from Manchester United, and reports suggested that he was set on returning to Turin. Paul Pogba Re-Signs for Juventus Paul Pogba to Juventus, confirmed and here we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4215,"featured_media":614168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1362,18,5,28],"tags":[3064,4989,140],"class_list":["post-614164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-juventus","category-manchester-united","category-serie-a","category-transfers","tag-juventus-transfers","tag-manchester-united-transfers","tag-paul-pogba"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}