as we revealed that France international Paul Pogba, 28, is set to leave Old Trafford at the end of the season. Manchester United are reportedly allowing the midfielder to leave and will not try to sell him in January.
This will be no doubt be painful, as the club bought him in 2016 for a then-world record fee of £89.3 million from Juventus - the club they had released him for free to in 2012.
With this toe curling loss in mind, and with the spate of huge free deals last season, including Georginio Wijnaldum and Gianluigi Donnarumma, we thought it only appropriate to celebrate some of the other biggest free transfers in the game's recent history.
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