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Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has agreed a two-year deal to affix AS Monaco with a medical set to happen later this week to verify the transfer, in response to the Fabrizio Romano.
Pogba, 32, is the Purple Devils’ file signing after his £89 million transfer from Juventus in 2016.
However, regardless of arriving amidst a triumphant fanfare in a return to Outdated Trafford, having graduated from the academy solely to affix the Italian facet on a free switch, the Frenchman by no means lived as much as the billing in his second keep in Manchester.
There’s a sense neither Jose Mourinho nor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Pogba’s managers throughout his six-year spell, ever really grasped the perfect place to play the membership’s largest switch.
Pogba’s potent pairing of dimension and energy appeared to persuade them he was in a position to play in a deeper position in midfield as a part of a pivot.
He lacked the defensive nous for this place, nonetheless, in addition to an inclination to dwell on the ball which inhibited his skill to progress the ball successfully, regardless of his excellent technical expertise and passing vary.
Pogba’s optimum place was on the left-hand facet of a midfield three in probably the most superior position; a hybrid quantity eight/quantity ten with the liberty to float wherever his carefree coronary heart felt finest, secure within the information there have been two extra astute midfielders deployed behind him to take care of construction and stability.
All through his time at Outdated Trafford, Pogba was solely as soon as performed on this system with any degree of consistency: the start of Solskjaer’s interim reign after the Norwegian had changed Mourinho.
Solskjaer started life accountable for United in a traditional 4-3-3 with Pogba on the left of the midfield, Ander Herrera on the best, and Nemanja Matic stationed on the base – the prototype for Pogba to provide his finest performances.
Regardless of United starting the season in poor kind beneath Mourinho, and ending it much more poorly beneath Solskjaer because the staff ran out of steam, the Reds have been incredible for a three-month stint over the winter interval throughout this transition between the 2 coaches.
Pogba’s kind was so scintillating throughout this time he was chosen into the PFA Group of the Season for the 2018/19 marketing campaign. However in the beginning of the next marketing campaign, Solskjaer reverted to a 4-2-3-1 with Pogba alongside Scott McTominay in a midfield pivot.
The outcomes on his performances have been as predictable as they have been poor.
Six months later, Bruno Fernandes was captured from Sporting CP – United’s most influential signing of the post-Sir Alex Ferguson malaise – and Pogba’s position as a no.8/no.10 hybrid was made out of date by the Portugal worldwide.
Pogba would finally depart Outdated Trafford, for the second time, to affix Juventus after his contract expired in the summertime of 2022. From a record-breaking bid to a free switch, the 32-year-old proved an unsuccessful signing in a protracted line by the Purple Devils prior to now decade.
However Pogba’s kind didn’t enhance in Turin with a sequence of accidents curbing his return for the Outdated Woman. And, in September 2023, his state of affairs took a pointy twist after an opposed drug check following a Serie A match towards Udinese.
In February 2024, Pogba was handed a four-year ban by the Court docket of Arbitration for Sporting (CAS) for testing optimistic for DHEA – a prohibited substance which boosts testosterone. The sentence was later diminished to 18 months after it was acknowledged Pogba had “inadvertently” used DHEA and it was a drug efficient solely in females.
This allowed Pogba to return to skilled soccer in March 2025 and he has been looking for a brand new membership since.
There have been profitable presents from America and Saudi Arabia however the Frenchman settled on Ligue 1 facet Monaco who completed third in France’s high division final yr and can play within the Champions League this season.
Romano confirms Pogba has reached a “verbal settlement” with Monaco over a “contract till June 2027.” Medical exams will happen “later this week” to verify the transfer because the “last particulars” have now been finalised.
🚨🇲🇨 BREAKING: Paul Pogba to AS Monaco, right here we go! Verbal settlement in place, contract till June 2027.
Remaining particulars have been sorted, contract to be checked by attorneys in subsequent hours after which Paul will fly to Monaco in 24h.
Medical exams later this week. Pogback. 🔙 pic.twitter.com/0G73AM80OL
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 24, 2025
Tweet: “BREAKING: Paul Pogba to AS Monaco, right here we go! Verbal settlement in place, contract till June 2027. Remaining particulars have been sorted, contract to be checked by attorneys in subsequent hours after which Paul will fly to Monaco in 24h. Medical exams later this week. Pogback.”
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