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Paul Pogba says record transfer fee has created unrealistic expectations

Manchester United's Paul Pogba believes his status as the world's most expensive player ever has unfairly warped expectations.

Having seen the Frenchman slip through their fingers four years earlier, United forked out an eye-watering world-record fee worth up to 110million euros (B£92.35million) to bring him back from Juventus.

Increased anticipation, pressure and scrutiny was only natural after becoming the world's costliest player, so too the way Pogba has struggled to fulfil such lofty expectations.

It has led to criticism that has clearly irked the France international, who laid bare that frustration in his first press conference since returning to United.