Juventus are considering Paul Pogba’s return, but the best offer they can make for the Manchester United star is €10m per season.
Pogba already walked out of Old Trafford as a free agent in 2012 and is ready to do it again next summer as the France star seems unlikely to extend his stay at the club.
“This year, it is dead, we won’t win anything. Whether it’s with Manchester or at another club, I want to win trophies,” he told Le Figaro last week.
Juventus are one of the options on the table for Pogba who still has many friends at the club and in the city of Turin. He would not reunite with one of his closest buddies, Paulo Dybala, who will leave the Allianz Stadium at the end of his contract in June.
That’s one of the reasons why Juventus could make a potentially convincing offer to Pogba, even if the Frenchman would need to take a pay cut to return to his former club. The club would use the Growth Decree to get a tax discount on the player’s gross salary. Pogba currently gets circa €15m per season at Old Trafford.
According to Calciomercato.com, Juventus can’t afford to pay more than €10m wages for the 29-year-old. That’s as much as they had agreed with Dybala at the end of 2021. Pogba scored 34 goals in 178 games during his spell in Turin. He has managed just five goals more in 229 appearances with Manchester United.