It was always meant to be Paul Pogba’s summer, though not quite like this.
Euro 2016 was always destined to be his tournament, where he swept France to victory on home soil, following in the footsteps of Michel Platini in 1984 and Zinedine Zidane in 1998. It was to be the moment where he was finally crowned as French—and European—football royalty.
It looks like we’re getting a coronation of sorts, but not necessarily the one that Pogba would have desired, as he prepares to become the most expensive player in football history, per Alan Smith and Fabrizio Romano of the Guardian.