Paul Pogba has signed an improved contract with Juventus which will keep him with the Serie A giants until June 2019, the Turin club announced on Friday.
The French midfielder’s previous deal was to expire in 2016. The player was linked with a return to Old Trafford on a free transfer in 2012.
The new deal will reportedly see Pogba’s existing £23,000-a-week deal tripled.
Pogba has been intricate to Juve’s success in recent seasons and ,as a result, has caught the eyes of top European clubs. This has forced Juventus to tie the 21-year-old down with a new deal.
‘We have just signed Paul Pogba’s renewal until 2019,’ Juve club administrator Giuseppe Marotta said during a shareholders meeting in Turin on Friday.
Pogba, who was named the young player of the tournament at the World Cup in Brazil in the summer, moved to Turin two years ago on a free transfer from Manchester United.
He has formed a solid partnership with Italian veteran Andrea Pirlo, which has contributed to Juve’s back-to-back Serie A titles.
Marotta announced earlier his month that Juve had turned down several lucrative offers for Pogba in the summer.
