Injured for much of the season, Paul Pogba did not wear the Juventus jersey much for his return to Turin. Something to annoy its leaders when it has one of the highest salaries. The Old Lady now opens the door to his transfer this summer.
After two years of sporting downgrading with a Scudetto left to the two Milan clubs, Juventus dreamed so much of bouncing back in the summer of 2022. Paul Pogba was the head of the gondola of these ambitions, he who was one of the architects of the beautiful period of dominance in the mid-2010s. Nevertheless, the Frenchman’s return was a fiasco. Arriving free from Manchester United, Pogba was a real poisoned gift. Already injured in the calf, he was hit in the meniscus during the summer preparation. His first official match did not come until last February, against Torino. In the end, he only played 6 Serie A games and 10 games in all competitions before new hamstring problems.
Pogba too expensive for a financially drained Juve
A catastrophic result for the Turin management, which placed a lot of hope in him. Massimiliano Allegri remains optimistic about ” the deck and the present proves him right. Currently in Miami, Pogba is working hard to start the next season at the same time as his teammates. Nevertheless, this is not enough for the Italian press as well as for its leaders. La Gazzetta Dello Sport referred to him as a ” flop for now “. The leaders put him on the transfer list.
Consistency in all things. pic.twitter.com/lk3wklMeQV
— Paul Pogba (@paulpogba) June 15, 2023
Indeed, despite the player’s will and his enormous potential, Pogba is expensive for the Old Lady: 8 million euros net annually, to be exact. A remuneration too high for a club in financial difficulty. Targeted by Italian justice, the Bianconeri only hung in the Europa League Conference after the 10-point penalty collected at the end of the season. According to Foot Mercato, Pogba’s departure is clearly envisaged in Turin to relieve the club’s wage bill. If a club positions itself on the Frenchman in the transfer window, Juve will clearly not retain him. It must be said that she has other elements much more difficult to sell: Weston McKennie, Denis Zakaria or Arthur, especially in the game sector of Pogba. For the French midfielder, the dolce vita in Turin may end before it even started.
