Paul Pogba’s agent claims there is no deal in place with Manchester United.
Executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has been negotiating with Juve directors Giuseppe Marotta and Fabio Paratici to thrash out the deal which will be worth in excess of £100million and be a new world record transfer.
It is understood United have agreed to pay Juventus the massive fee for their France superstar and will hand Pogba a five-year contract worth £210,000-a-week, net.
But Raiola, who will be owed a sizeable chunk of the final fee, has taken to social media to claim nothing is yet set in stone.
“There is no deal done regarding Paul Pogba, lots of bla bla bla,” he tweeted.
Woodward has missed the first leg of his club’s pre-season tour in China in order to conduct negotiations.
Jose Mourinho, the new United boss, has been keen to ensure Pogba returns to pre-season training – after helping France reach the final of Euro 2016 – with his Reds and not Juve.
Earlier today United boss Mourinho said he was confident of completing the final “25 per cent” of his transfer business this summer, with Pogba poised to return to Old Trafford having left in 2012.
“I don’t confirm and I don’t deny,” said Mourinho. “I cannot tell. First of all because I don’t think its correct to speak about players from other clubs. He’s a Juventus player not a Manchester United player.
“The only thing I can say is that my board, my directors, did a fantastic job to do 75 per cent of the job I asked them to do.
“I asked them for four profiles of players, I gave them a few options and they did for me 75 per cent of the job and we just have 25 per cent to do before August 31.
“So we are in a great positon to do what I consider will be a great market for us. So we are calm.”
United had previously offered a £100m package, including around £14m in add-ons.
The clinching deal is understood to have been secured at £100m with around £8m in performance-related bonuses.
It eclipses the £86m Real Madrid paid Tottenham for Gareth Bale in 2013.
