Paul Pogba Seals World-Record Manchester United Move

New Manchester United signing Paul Pogba admits that he always believed that returning to Old Trafford was in his destiny. 

The long drawn out transfer saga involving the Frenchman finally came to an end last night when Manchester United officially confirmed the signature of the 23-year-old midfielder.

Pogba left Old Trafford in 2012 and joined Juventus for a paltry compensation fee, and Manchester United paid a world record £89m to snare him away from the Italian champions this summer.


The Frenchman has indicated that he always believed that one day he would return to Old Trafford, and feels he left some unfinished business at Manchester United when he joined Juventus four years ago. 

The midfielder told MUTV: “I think it's destiny, I would say it's destiny. First my mum told me I would come back here and I told her, ‘You never know, you’ll see.’  
"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. I didn’t finish what I started here so I think I came here to finish it.”

The midfielder believes that he has returned to Manchester United a better player, and feels his record at Juventus speaks for itself.

“I’m more experienced, I’ve won titles at Juventus. I’ve been playing with big players like when I started at Man United, of course.

“I came back. I’ve not come back from the Academy now; I went to play somewhere else and I came back, I would say, as a person, as an adult. I would say with experience, with more games, so I think that’s the difference.”

With just a few days left for the Premier League season to start, it remains to be seen whether Jose Mourinho decides to include Pogba in his squad for Manchester United’s game against Bournemouth on Sunday.

Pogba already has seven senior appearances under his belt from his previous stint at Old Trafford.

Jose Mourinho to to drop World Champion from Premier League Squad

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has suggested that Bastian Schweinsteiger is not a part of his squad for this season.

The 32-year-old joined the Red Devils in the summer of 2015 from Bayern Munich, as former manager Louis van Gaal looked to bolster his midfield.

The former Germany captain, who recently retired from international duty, struggled in his opening season at Old Trafford with injury problems.
Sustaining a knee injury in January against Sheffield United was followed up with a similar problem shortly after, making it a campaign to forget for Schweinsteiger.

And Mourinho has now dropped a massive hint that the German is not a part of his future plans, with Juventus superstar Paul Pogba set to replace him.

“I think is what is happening in every club in the world which is the manager decides his squad and chooses a certain number of players to face the season,” Mourinho said at his press conference.

“That’s it and I normally like to work with 20 players plus the three goalkeepers which is what I do for 15 years because we have so many players but at the same time we also have so many competition and especially the Europa League is a competition that changes a lot of the season you can play 15 matches, you play on the Thursday, you have a big risk, travel a lot.

“Normally you are going to play the Premier League on the Sunday so I made the decision to be with 23 players plus three goalkeepers which I think is still a lot and I had to make my decisions.”
The news will disappoint some Manchester United fans, but will not come as a surprise after several reports recently revealed that Schweinsteiger was not in Mourinho’s plans for this season.

Schweinsteiger’s brother, Tobias, also tweeted earlier this week ‘no respect’ in regards to the decision to let his sibling leave Manchester United in such sour circumstances.

The midfielder has not even appeared under Mourinho in pre-season, after only recently returning to the club from his post-Euro 2016 holidays.

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Photo News: Wayne Rooney's Testimonial Match

The All-time England highest goal-scorer arrived  at Old Trafford 12 years ago this month as a contentious and aggressive teenager. But when Wayne Rooney walked out at Old Trafford for his testimonial on Wednesday night, he was the man in every sense.

Captain of Manchester United, captain of his country for now, and father of three boys – Kai, Klay and Kit – who joined him on the walk out of the tunnel to an ovation from the United fans and those of his old club Everton, Rooney has come a long way. He is England’s record scorer and soon to be United’s as well.

There have been a few bumps along the way, not least the two times when he came close to leaving Old Trafford before signing a new contract, but few would dispute that he has lived up to expectations since making that £30million move from Merseyside in 2004.

Check out pictures from the match