FC Barcelona were keen on buying Paul Pogba from Juventus, but they simply could not compete economically with Manchester United, according to club president Josep Maria Bartomeu, speaking to ESPN FC.
“In the summer of 2015, Paul Pogba was playing in Turin and we simply told Juve that, if one day they decide to sell the player, we would be interested,” Bartomeu said.
”When they sold the player, they told us what the offer would have to be, and we couldn’t afford that amount of money at the time.”
Manchester United bought Pogba for 105 million, which was then a world record.