Mourinho tells Pogba to forget his price tag

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has told Paul Pogba to forget his world-record price tag and focus on playing football.

The Red Devils paid an incredible €105m (£89m), to bring back the French midfielder, who left them four years earlier in search of first-team football.

Pogba is yet to replicate some of the fine form he showed while at Juventus, amid talk that his price tag is weighing heavily on him.

But Mourinho has called on him to show what he can do.

“The world record player is always a question that will be open until somebody breaks the record,” Mourinho said.

“I think there are clubs that paid 20, 30, 40 (million pounds), which is a bigger deal than what Man United paid for Paul because you make a relation between what you pay and the club revenue.

“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.

“Euro final, no pre-season, holidays, come back – it’s normal that in the first week he had the very good impact in the first game.

“It’s normal that after the first game he has a little decrease, but I am full of trust with him because I know the player he is.

“I know that he is a very good guy with a lot of ambition, so the form will come naturally and will come with the team. The team improves, Paul improves. No problem.”

United take on Watford on Sunday and will be hoping to avoid a third consecutive defeat.

Mourinho’s men have recorded back-to-back losses against Manchester City and Feyenoord.

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