Zlatan Ibrahimovic's shirt sales alone show why no-one should give a shit about Paul Pogba's price
That's how you do business.
Bring Zlatan Ibrahimovic on board for free, pay him a ridiculous amount of money for the pleasure of his company, watch it all return in shirts sales 25 times over.
So Manchester United not only have one of the world's finest strikers on their cards, they have a money-making PR dream and they have solid justification for breaking the world record transfer fee on a player they already had on their books only four years ago.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Man Utd shirt has made £76m in one week. By the end of the second week it will have paid for Pogba's £100m transfer.
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) July 29, 2016
£76m of real money. In one week.
At that rate, United could pay for an overpriced Gonzalo Higuain every single week. And that's only through one player's shirt sales.
So if the club do go spending triple figures on a 23-year-old midfielder, fans needn't worry - not that really were anyway. Caring about money when you support a club like Manchester United is just a face-saving exercise so opposition fans don't have any more undue ammunition on you.
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The Pogba deal is nearly done. All that remains is for United fans and Juventus fans to argue on the internet about who paid Raiola's fee.
— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) July 29, 2016
But, honestly, Zlatan has got this.
Even if they had to rip poor Anthony Martial's shirt off his back to get there.
Ibrahimovic is making a lot of money, but the Frenchman made a lot of friends. And they won't forget his number nine shirt being given up in a hurry.
Apologise to Martial @ManUtd
— Messi Cried (@LjanuzajMUFC) July 23, 2016
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@ManUtd Oya, apologise to our future, Martial. ASAP.
— Yemi (@Babygiwa) July 23, 2016
@ManUtd apologize to martial for robbing his number thiefs
— Shane Cassidy (@Cassidy_9) July 24, 2016
@ManUtd @WayneRooney Did you apologize to Martial?
— Mohamed Jama (@YMali24) July 24, 2016
Apologize to Martial @manutd
— ToluwaLase!! (@_Toluwalase_) July 23, 2016
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