• Pogba also linked with Chelsea, Manchester City and PSG • ‘Barça made an offer, we replied … Juve does not want to sell’

Juventus have insisted that Paul Pogba is not for sale despite new reports in Spain linking the highly coveted midfielder with a move to Barcelona.

The Barcelona presidential candidate Joan Laporta has claimed he will sign Pogba if he is elected on Saturday, and Pogba’s agent, Mino Raiola, backed this up, saying: “There is a strong possibility that Pogba will play for Barcelona if Laporta is elected.”

However, the Juventus general director, Giuseppe Marotta, said: “Whoever is interested in the player needs to talk to Juventus and not with Mino Raiola. But the player is not for sale.”

Pogba, 22, is also a reported target for Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain, though the France international is under contract at the Serie A club until June 2019.

Juve turned down a reported €80m bid from Barcelona earlier this month after the European champions sent a delegation, led by the club’s international sporting director, Ariedo Braida, to Milan for negotiations.

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Marotta said: “We have negotiated with Barça in recent months. We have done so in a serious and correct manner as it should be between two teams that have a lot of history and importance in world football. The situation is very clear between Barça and Juventus after the meeting we had in Milan. Barça made an offer and we replied. In any case Barça cannot make any signings and Juve does not want to sell.”

Barça cannot field any new players until January 2016 due to a transfer ban imposed by Fifa for breaching rules on the transfer of under-age players. That has not stopped the treble winners from acquiring the Spanish defender Aleix Vidal from Sevilla and the Turkish midfielder Arda Turan from Atlético Madrid since the end of the last campaign.