Pogba’s £40m payback for Reds

Manchester United believe that bringing Paul Pogba back to the Premier League as the planet’s most expensive footballer can deliver as much as £40m worth of commercial income in the first year. If those projections materialise, Pogba’s marketing dividend would cover more than a third of Juventus’ £110m asking price for the transfer.

Though United’s investment in the France international includes covering a 30% sell-on clause to Mino Raiola, the agent who persuaded Pogba, 23, to leave Old Trafford for Italy in 2012, their negotiations to re-sign him have focused on recouping that spend. According to a source involved in…