Super agent Mino Raiola has spoken of ferrying Paul Pogba away from Manchester United.

Raiola says he should be knighted for taking Pogba back to the club from Juventus.

He told the Daily Mail: “Moving in 2012 was a necessary step because Paul wouldn't have progressed the way he did otherwise. I still believe the value of Paul today confirms I was right to do what I did. (Alex Ferguson and I) had different ideas of where Paul was.

“Maybe it's just as well he didn't like me because then he would have slapped me. What people don't realise is that I did everything to try and persuade Paul not to go to Juventus.

“Serie A clubs were not known for developing young players at the time. The last had been Paolo Maldini at Milan in 1985. I didn't think it was right.

“So three months down the line, he is at Juventus and I said we started a bad relationship here, everything I say you don't listen to me and Paul just said, 'It's not that I don't listen, it is just everything I have done in life, I have done the hard way. I want to do it the hard way'.

“Similarly, this time when it was about returning to United, he knew there was no Champions League and it was the greater challenge. Paul Pogba doesn't give up.

“One thing I see though is that Mr Ferguson was made a Sir — maybe I too should be a “Sir'' for bringing Paul back!"