Ignore your price tag and emerge, Jose Mourinho tells Paul Pogba

Paul Pogba

Paul Pogba

London: Jose Mourinho wants Paul Pogba to forget his world-record price tag and show Manchester United his true quality.

A summer of discussion bore fruit five weeks ago when the open secret of Pogba's Old Trafford return from Juventus was made official. United paid an eye-watering 105million euros (£89million) to bring back a player who left them four years earlier in search of first-team football, with a further five million euros (£4.25million) due if certain targets are met.

"The world record player is always a question that will be open until somebody breaks the record. You realise that other clubs paying 20, 30, 40 is a much bigger thing than what Man United did, and I just want Paul to forget that and to play his football.