EPL: Pogba leaves Man Utd with loyalty bonus in deal costing £219m
Paul Pogba will pocket a massive loyalty bonus as he leaves Manchester United this month.
The Daily Mail says Pogba will walk away with a £3.78million loyalty bonus when he quits Manchester as a free agent at the end of the month.
United confirmed on Wednesday that Pogba will leave Old Trafford for a second time when his contract runs out on June 30, bringing to an end one of the most disappointing – and costly – careers in the club’s history.
The loyalty bonus is a final insult to fans who never saw the best of the French World Cup winner during an underwhelming second spell at United lasting six years.
But those were the staggering terms United offered to Pogba to entice him back from Juventus for a then world-record fee of £89m in 2016, having initially lost him to the Italians for compensation of just £1.5m in 2012.
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As well as the huge transfer fee, United also paid £39.27m to the player’s agent Mino Raiola, who passed away in April, to clinch the deal.
Pogba was initially paid a basic salary of £8.61m – dropping to £7.75m once the annual loyalty bonus kicked in at the end of his first year – as well as image rights payments totalling £2.87m-a-year and a £1.875 bonus for each of the four occasions United qualified for the Champions League while he was there.
The total bill for Pogba runs to a jaw-dropping £218.93m – £968,716 for each of his 226 games or £5.613m for each of his 39 goals.