After rejecting a move to Real Madrid in order to return to Manchester United, Paul Pogba has explained why he made his decision.

Pogba began his professional career at United but he made his name at Juventus by winning four successive Serie A titles and last season the Old Trafford club spent  €105 million to get him back.

Madrid had been keen to take the France international to the Santiago Bernabeu, but unfinished business at United saw Pogba opt to go back to the Premier League.

‘To be honest, Real Madrid came to me and I was thinking to go there, and I was thinking to go to Manchester United too,’ Pogba told the Beyond the Pitch podcast.

‘But I always felt it in my heart. My heart told me to come back [to Manchester]. I don’t know why, I didn’t know what was going to happen.

‘But I did it, and I don’t regret it. I never regret my choice,’ he said.

Pogba is serving a three-match Premier League ban after being sent off in United’s 3-1 win at Arsenal. The suspension caused the 24-year-old to miss Sunday’s Manchester derby, which saw City open an 11-point lead atop the table.

-This story originally appeared on FourFourTwo.co.za