Pogba to Juventus: One player remains from his final Juve XI in 2016

Paul Pogba will re-join Juventus on a free transfer, six years after leaving the club for Manchester United as the world’s most expensive player.

The Frenchman set the world record transfer fee with his 2016 return to United which set the Red Devils back some £89 million, after they had lost him fore free to Juve in 2012.

In what has been a rollercoaster of a career, Pogba now looks set to return to Turin for a second time, per Fabrizio Romano, with the move to be finalised next month.

He leaves United having won a Europa League and a League Cup, but finished as a runner up in the Premier League twice and a Europa League finalist in 2021, while also winning the World Cup with France in 2018.

In the time since leaving Juve, Pogba has become one of football’s most polarising and conflicting talents. On his good days, he remains as endlessly talented and near unplayable as ever. But United fans’ main qualm is that they very rarely saw those good days, certainly in more recent years.

Pogba was unable to fix United and spark their resurgence as they had intended him to do, but will return to Juventus a much more experienced player for his time at Old Trafford. Italian football has changed significantly since the Frenchman was last in Turin, however.

Juventus have fallen away from the top of the domestic mountain, with Inter and AC Milan each winning the last two Scudetti respectively. Juve have had somewhat of an identity crisis, and are going through a rebuild of their own after years of trying to win the Champions League with Cristiano Ronaldo leading the line.

Much has changed since Pogba and manager Masssimiliano Allegri were last together at Juventus, though, with just one player remaining from the XI that started in