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Jose Mourinho wants Paul Pogba to fly into England this weekend as Manchester United prepare to officially announce his world record transfer.

Pogba jetted into New York from Las Vegas earlier this week and M.E.N. Sport understands Mourinho now wants the 23-year-old to fly into England to conclude his move. United had hoped to confirm Pogba's signing on Thursday but there was an unexpected delay.

United are believed to have concluded a deal to re-sign Pogba from Juventus four years on from losing him to the Bianconeri for an £800,000 compensation fee.

Pogba has holidayed in the United States over the last four weeks and ramped up anticipation ahead of his move with a series of ambiguous posts on his social media channels.

Adidas, who signed a boot deal with Pogba in March, have benefited immensely from the protracted Pogba transfer and have even launched a commercial centred on speculation surrounding the France international. The German sportswear giant have identified Pogba as their key European region asset once Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi retire.

Mourinho was asked on Friday if supporters could expect a signing over the next few days and replied: "Yes we have 22 now and we are going to have 23." He refused to be drawn specifically on Pogba, though.

"You are right I don't like to speak about other clubs," he added. "I don't like to speak about players from other clubs, other managers like to do that, they like to speak about my club and my players, I'm very pragmatic on this.

"The only thing that matters for me is what's happening in my house, not my neighbours's. Pogba is a Juventus player and until officially he isn't, we stay like this.

"But honestly, the market closes on August 31 but I think my club is trying to do everything to close our market before August 14 [date of Bournemouth Premier League opener], so normally next week we will have our squad closed."

Mourinho vetoed a move for Miralem Pjanic earlier in the summer to prioritise signing Pogba. Pjanic moved to Juventus from Roma in a move which has worked to United's advantage.

Pogba was understood to prefer a move to Real Madrid but Raiola advised him to rejoin United. Zinedine Zidane lobbied Real president Florentino Perez to sign Pogba but the Champions League winners were reluctant to match United's fee.

United are understood to have agreed personal terms with Raiola in early July and reached a breakthrough in negotiations with Juventus over Raiola's commission last week.

United have already clinched the signings of Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, and Mourinho confirmed M.E.N. Sport's story in May he wanted to strengthen four positions during his maiden press conference.

"We made a nucleus of four priorities, four positions, priorities," he explained. "To give a certain balance to the squad, to give a certain push in terms of quality, and the qualities that I need, that I want, as we know especially with the ones with more vision."

Mourinho outlined his desire to have his fourth signing in before next week's Premier League opener at Bournemouth.

"We are going to sign one more player that's for sure," Mourinho said ahead of Wayne Rooney's testimonial. "I don't want to speak about Paul because he's a Juventus player and I don't like other managers to speak about my players and I don't speak about their players.

"The reality is we’re 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 would like to do that before the Premier League starts."