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“Let’s remember that free agents also have salaries,”joke like Monaco CEO Thiago Scuro, who responded to a question fromReceive French football newsAt the end of May.“They are not the solution for everything! We don’t want to leave ours [youth-centric] Strategy too. There are some free agent opportunities, but they cost money, they have a salary and they also have an impact on our playing style. We want to keep our strategy, balance [it out] A little but not walking away, ” he added.
Since then, the Principity Club has been attented to the Free Agent market. Eric Dier has already arrived from Bayern Munich, Sergio Reguilón remains a target, while David de Gea was considered prior to renewing in Fiorentina. All those goals are consistent with the comments from Scuro in January.“I understand that in the summer in the summer(2024),Perhaps with the goals we have, we became too young. ” That“balance”Is now beaten, first of all by Dier and now by the arrival of a World Cup winner.
An affordable bet?
According to Le Parisien, Paul Pogba (32) will sign a two -year deal with the Principity Club. He is expected this week for a medical one, perhaps in Tuesday. His signature comes from Saudi Arabia despite the reported interest. Although contract details still have to arise, the former Manchester United and Juventus -midfielder are expected to be one of the best earners in the club.
With that salary, of course, expectations come, but crucial, there will be no dependence on Monaco. Les Monégasques’UEFA Champions League qualification (for the second consecutive season), in combination with the departure of some of the top treaties in recent years and some strong sales figures (€ 50 million in 2024/25, € 62 million in 2023/24 and € 156 million in 2022/23), leaves the club on a solid financial foot. Further sale (Maghnes Akliouche, Wilfried Singo, Vandersonon) is also expected this summer.
The financial edition on Pogba will be important, despite his“Free Agent”Tag, and so there can be no illusion that this is a risk -free gamble from the Principity Club, especially given the question marks about fitness. Once prior to his doping ban, which kept him for 18 months from the football field, he argued with a series of injuries that, since the beginning of the 2022/23 season, he limited him to just over 200 minutes of playing time.
Pogba – sign a joker signs
He will need time to find his rhythm again, and in Monaco, perhaps more than elsewhere, they can afford Pogba time to do that. It can be used as something of a joker sign, albeit an expensive one.Les MonégasquesI already have one of the best middle fields in France. Denis Zakaria, now club captain, still enjoyed a strong campaign, despite some injuries absence; Lamine Camara had his ups and downs in his debut season in the Stade Louis II, but the way in which he ended the season was a more than positive omen; Then there are the young people, Soungoutou Magassa and Mamadou Coulibaly, who are ready to perform-the first in particular has already built up a lot of first teaching experience; And if necessary Eric Dier can also increase.
Pogba can supplement those options, but the power and depth that already dispersing an idea of dependence on a player whose recent injury record suggests that he cannot be trusted, at least not for a full season.
But there is a lot of potential advantage. If he can rediscover the levels he has shown prior to his injury and then his ban, he is a player that she can bring in their own country and in Europe, just like the goal for next season. Despite the wealth of options that are already in the midfield of Monaco, Pogba would bring something different and would allow Adi Hütter to be even more tactical more flexible. Then there are the intangible assets. A world cup winner and a great personality, he can be a leading influence and a leader in what remains a very young dressing room. Camara has praised Zakaria’s ability to improve him as a midfielder, and Pogba can also add another facet to the game of Camara, or that of Magassa or Coulibaly in that regard.
Pogba puts sights on 2026 World Cup
The decision of Pogba to join Monaco, instead of making the switch to Saudi Aarabia, is a strong indication of wherever his head is and his priorities on the way to a World Cup year. The World Cup winner 2018 is determined to win a place on the Didier Deschamps side. There is no better place to do that than at Monaco, whose training field is just a stone’s throw from the House of Deschamps. Monaco can therefore count on a highly motivated Pogba, and someone who will have made compromises to get his move.
His spirit is in the right place, but it is his physical state that will ultimately determine whether this mutual bet is a well -placed.
GFFN | Luke Entwistle
