{"id":1147312,"date":"2022-07-12T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/12\/pogback-to-juventus\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:24:16","slug":"pogback-to-juventus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/12\/pogback-to-juventus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pogback\u2019 To Juventus &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Pogba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul Pogba\u00a0has rejoined\u00a0Juventus\u00a0on a four-year contract, the club has announced, following his exit from\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0as a free agent last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0France\u00a0international enjoyed a successful first stint at the club between 2012 and 2016, winning Serie A four times in a row and the Coppa Italia twice.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am back, I am here and I can\u2019t wait to get started,\u201d\u00a0Pogba told the club\u2019s Twitter account.\u201dI am very, very happy. I can\u2019t wait to get started and wear this Juventus jersey again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sources told ESPN last month that\u00a0Pogba agreed a move back to Juventus\u00a0and he has now signed a four-year contract to reunite with manager Massimiliano Allegri.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder flew into Turin on Friday and was\u00a0met with a hundreds of Juventus fans\u00a0celebrating his return.\u00a0He completed his medical\u00a0at the club on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told ESPN in May that\u00a0Pogba was keen on a return to Juventus\u00a0after turning down interest from Premier League champions\u00a0Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the start of June,\u00a0United confirmed that he would leave\u00a0when his contract expired, bringing an end to a difficult spell at Old Trafford. Pogba returned to United in 2016 for a then-world-record fee of \u00a389.3 million from Juventus and won three trophies in his debut campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, he fell out with then-United manager Jose Mourinho and struggled to find consistency under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and interim boss Ralf Rangnick.<\/p>\n<p>Pogba endured an easy relationship with the United fans and they booed him in his final two appearances against\u00a0Norwich City\u00a0and\u00a0Liverpool. He will be hopeful of helping Juventus regain the Serie A title for the first time since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Pogba becomes the latest high-profile player to join the\u00a0<em>Bianconeri\u00a0<\/em>after\u00a0Angel Di Maria signed for\u00a0Juventus on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Paul Pogba Paul Pogba\u00a0has rejoined\u00a0Juventus\u00a0on a four-year contract, the club has announced, following his exit from\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0as a free agent last month. \u00a0 The\u00a0France\u00a0international enjoyed a successful first stint at the club between 2012 and 2016, winning Serie A four times in a row and the Coppa Italia twice. \u00a0 \u201cI am back, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1147314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5344,20276],"class_list":["post-1147312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-juventus","tag-pogback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}