Barcelona agree £64m Pogba deal - reports

 

Paul Pogba: Has reportedly agreed move to Barcelona

Barcelona have reportedly agreed a £64million deal with Juventus to sign Paul Pogba with the deal scheduled to go through in the summer of 2016.

According to Gazzetta dello Sport, a lunch held between officials from the two clubs ended with an consensus over the transfer which, due to Barcelona's transfer embargo, will go through next summer and enable Pogba to spend one more season in Turin.

Barca will reportedly pay just shy of £57million for the France international, with a further £7million in add-ons. It is thought City were prepared to hand over £71million (€100m) for Pogba, but the former Manchester United player reportedly has his heart set on a move to Catalonia.
As for Barca, presidential candidate Joan Laporta recently said he hoped Pogba's agent, Mino Raiola, could help bring the player to the Nou Camp.
"We feel that the key to a potential signing of Pogba is Mino Raiola, with whom we get on with very well," he said.
"We carried out negotiations with him for the deals involving Maxwell and Zlatan Ibrahimovic." You would recall that Barcelona Presidential Candidate Joan Laporta had already expressed optimism Pogba would right be interested in moving to Barcelona