Manchester United are more likely to prove Paul Pogba wrong than the other way around

When Paul Pogba checks into his new surroundings in Turin ahead of the new season, he will have plenty of motivation to make his second coming at Juventus a success.

Pogba looks certain to return to the Serie A giants in a career path that will confuse the Wikipedia trawlers in 20 or 30 years' time. The midfielder has now gone from Manchester United to Juventus to Manchester United and, soon, back to Juventus.

Juve are once again licking their wounds after a second successive season without a Scudetto, which is a far cry from Pogba's last spell at the club while came during a run of nine successive league titles. There have been only successive fourth-place finishes since then and the club are desperate to reclaim a title that has settled in Milan for the second year in a row.

Pogba will want to start stacking up his medal haul once again. In five disappointing years at Old Trafford he won only a Europa League and a League Cup and, for a player of his talents, that is a poor return.

But if thriving for his new, former club is a priority for Pogba, then it appears so is proving his old, old club they were wrong — even though he was the one who initiated a desire to leave three years ago.

"My thought process is to show Manchester that they made a mistake in waiting to give me a contract," Pogba says in The Pogmentary, released on Amazon today. "And to show other clubs that Manchester had made a mistake in not offering me a contract."

There is plenty of fluff in Pogba's self-serving film and his attempts to rewrite his own history with United is at the very top. His only public comment on his future in the past three years that gave any hint to his intentions was his statement that he wanted a "new challenge" in the