Paul Pogba’s stint as the most expensive football player to have walked the face of Planet Earth is up.
Not even a year on from his £89m return to Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain’s Qatari owners have splashed out £200m to land Neymar from Barcelona.
The Brazilian was unveiled by PSG on Friday, just over a week on from coming face to face with Pogba in Washington DC. Neymar scored the only goal as Barcelona beat United in a friendly in the US capital – the final game played by Jose Mourinho’s men on the American leg of their preseason tour.
Prior to kick-off, Pogba was spotted in conversation with Neymar in the tunnel. Given the role the French midfielder played in luring Romelu Lukaku to Old Trafford earlier in the summer, this footage was enough for some to suggest ‘Agent P’ was trying to tempt Neymar to Manchester, not Paris.
With Pogba hosting a Twitter Q&A session on Saturday morning, one of his followers wanted to know the details of his discussion with Neymar.
https://twitter.com/weijian29/status/893776702542815232
Pogba replied, although his vague answer didn’t exactly give much away.
Lol Neymar we just spoke about life
— Paul Pogba (@paulpogba) August 5, 2017
But that’s not to say that Pogba didn’t try and persuade his friend to join him at United, as one of his later replies revealed.
Agent P never sleeps
— Paul Pogba (@paulpogba) August 5, 2017
