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Juventus' Paul Pogba will cost Man City a world record fee - Andrea Pirlo

Former Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo says it will take a world record transfer fee for Manchester City to sign Paul Pogba.

Pogba, 23, has been a revelation since joining Juve from Manchester United after his contract expired in 2012 and was named the Best Young Player at the 2014 World Cup.

The France international has been tracked by all of Europe's richest clubs after helping Juve to a hat trick of Serie A titles, and to the final of the Champions League last year.

And Pirlo, who now plays for New York City FC in Major League Soccer, knows that while Juve will want to keep him, every player has a price.

The current world record fee was paid by Real Madrid to sign Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013, becoming the first €100 million player.

"Of course, Juventus will want to keep him. But sometimes you can get to a transfer fee that you can rebuild an entire team with and he would get to that fee," Pirlo told the Daily Mirror.

"At his age, you can build a team around him for the next years. If he does decide to leave, then I think it will be for a world record.

"I have played with some great young players, but Pogba was the best young player I have ever seen.

"We saw from his first training session with Juventus that he was special. There was a disbelief among the senior players that Manchester United had allowed him to leave.

"Since then he has grown physically and as a player. For me he is now the most complete central midfield player in the world."

Pogba cost Juve just £500,000 in compensation after the player turned down a new contract at Old Trafford.