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MANCHESTER UNITED have finalised a global-record transfer deal to bring Paul Pogba back to Old Trafford, Record Sport Online understands.

According to United and Juventus sources, the terms of the transfer were agreed on Wednesday. Juve have been asking £108.9million for the France midfielder, comprising a £83.8m payment to the Serie A club and a further £25.1m to cover a 30 per cent sell-on clause owed to Pogba's agent, Mino Raiola.

Pogba, who has been pursued by every one of European football's leading clubs over the past two seasons, wanted an annual after-tax salary worth over £10m to leave Juventus, where he won four Scudetti in four seasons and helped take the club to the 2015 Champions League Final.

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It is understood that the drawn-out nature of Pogba's switch from Serie A to the Premier League - and the immense media coverage it has elicited - has been well received by Adidas. The sportswear company benefits twice from the Frenchman's transfer, which places one of their most prominent football assets in the Manchester United kit they are paying up to £750m to produce over a 10-year term. Pogba himself signed a lucrative long-term sponsorship contract with Adidas earlier this year.

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As reported by The Daily Record last month, Jose Mourinho prioritised the recruitment of Pogba as a means of adding much-needed dynamism to his new club's midfield. The 23-year-old is the last of what the Portuguese coach described as "a nucleus of four priorities, four positions to give a certain balance to the squad" following the signings of Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

United's financial commitment to Pogba's appears still more expensive given that he is a graduate of the club's own academy. Poached from Le Havre as a teenager in 2009, the midfielder was allowed to run a three-season contract down to its final year before Raiola took over as his principal representative and advised him to exit. United received just €270,000 in FIFA-mandated 'training compensation' for the teenager 0.2 per cent of the fee Juve demanded for Pogba.