Double Blow For Manchester United: After Pogba, They Are Set To Lose Out On Fiorentina Star Too

By Amit Mishra on October 25, 2014@Leamitmishra

Former Manchester United player Paul Pogba has signed a new contract with Juventus that will keep at the club until 2019, thus ending Chelsea’s and former employers United’s interest in him. Pogba, who went to Juve on a free transfer in 2012, signed a new five-year contract that will give him close to £70,000-a-week (three times his previous wages of £23,000-a-week).

Juve’s director general Giuseppe Marotta said, “We have just signed Paul Pogba’s renewal until 2019.”

Marotta: @paulpogba has just renewed his contract with us until 2019.

— JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) October 24, 2014

The move will come as a blow for United who were trying to re-sign the 21-year old. Chelsea too were linked with him, but will have to look elsewhere. After former Juventus manager Antonio Conte’s resignation, there were rumours that Pogba will move elsewhere to ply his trade, but quite clearly, the Frenchman wants to stay at the club.

Van Gaal set to lose out on Juan Cuadrado

Fiorentina winger Juan Cuadrado is also set to sign a new contract if he hasn’t signed it already. According to Football-Italia, Cuadrado has already signed a contract extension at the club. He revealed his happiness on twitter last evening after having signed a new contract which was translated by the Italian website.

It read, “I’m happy for the renewal.

“I thank my agent Alessandro Lucci, the Della Valle family, the club as a whole and in particular the President Cognini for his availability. Forza Viola!”

The report also revealed that the contract is runs till 2019 and has a release clause of €35m. Cuadrado’s wages were increased as he’ll now earn around to €2.5m per year.

The news is yet to be officially announced by the club, but considering all the media attention, it’s only a matter of time.

Manchester United were hoping to sign the versatile Colombian possibly in January or in the summer, but will now have to cough up a significant fee that will tempt the Italian club to sell.