Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba will be worth an extra 10 points to Manchester United this season, according to a sport analytics machine, reports BBC Sport.

Pogba arrived at United this week for a world record £89m fee, while Ibrahimovic joined on a free.

Statisticians at the University of Salford ran tests to see how many points Jose Mourinho's side would win with and without the two new signings.

They found the pair increase United's chances of winning the league by 4%.

SAM, the sport analytics machine designed by statisticians at the University of Salford's Centre for Sports Business, uses a series of algorithms to forecast the results of a variety of sporting fixtures.

To return a verdict on Ibrahimovic and Pogba's influence, the experts ran the full Premier League season through SAM 10,000 times.

SAM takes into account multiple factors, such as which team is at home, the strength of teams that both sides have played as well as the quality and the form of the players on the pitch.