PAUL POGBA will reportedly join Manchester United today.
By Jack Wilson
The Telegraph claim sources have told them the deal is now poised to be finally confirmed.
It brings an end to the biggest transfer saga in football history - played out on social media amid a backdrop of 'will he?' or 'won't he?'.
The Juventus star, 23, will move for a world-record fee of £112m.
It smashes the £85m sum Real Madrid paid for Gareth Bale in 2013.
Pogba has given the green light to a £275,000-a-week contract at Old Trafford.
The five-year contract has been agreed with his agent Mino Raiola, who has been locked in talks with Manchester Unitedfor weeks.
The Frenchman is still on holiday in New York but is poised to fly into England to wrap the move up.
Pogba will become Jose Mourinho’s fourth signing of the summer.
He joins Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Eric Bailly and Henrikh Mkhitaryan in moving to Old Trafford.
The France midfielder is poised to wear the No.6 shirt.
Attention will now turn to the Community Shield against Leicester on Sunday, where Pogba could appear in the stands.
Mourinho was asked about his chase of Pogba before the game but would not comment directly.
He did, however, say he wanted another new player signed before the Premier League opener at Bournemouth on August 14.
"We are going to sign one more player for sure," the Portuguese told BT Sport.
"I don't want to speak about Paul (Pogba) because he is a Juventus player and I don't like other managers to speak about my players. I don't speak about their players.
"But the reality is we are going to sign one more player. The market closes, as you know, August 31 so we have plenty of time to do that, but I'd like to do it before the Premier League starts."
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