TVC E. Paul Pogba can afford to allow himself a wry smile when he picks up his first pay packet at Manchester United.
Four years after the club declined to pay him £65,000-a-week, Pogba will be paid more than four times that amount to surpass Wayne Rooney as the Premier League’s highest earner.
Back in 2012, United were alarmed by the demands that Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola was making on behalf of a youngster who had made only seven first-team appearances, all as substitute.Paul Pogba will earn wages of £290,000 per week after taking Manchester United’s No 6 shirt