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4 years since becoming the world's most expensive player, Paul Pogba has not delivered at Man Utd

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Manchester United's French midfielder Paul Pogba reacts after the English Premier League football match between Aston Villa and Manchester United at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England on July 9, 2020. - Manchester United won 3-0. [Photo by Shaun Botterill / POOL / AFP]

Four years since becoming the world's most expensive player, Paul Pogba remains no closer to fulfilling his promise at Manchester United, with many still questioning if he even deserves a place in the starting XI.

Having spent three years as a young player at United before leaving for Juventus in 2012, Pogba returned to Old Trafford for a then world-record fee of 89.3 million pounds in 2016, to much fanfare.

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