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GED BARNES takes a look at two players who left English shores early – Paul Pogba and Kevin De Bruyne – but could yet wash up here again...

IT WAS December 2011, and in the glamorous northern setting of Blackburn, a young Frenchman named Paul was contemplating some major lifestyle changes:
“I said to Ferguson, ‘Play me, and I will show you if I am ready or not’. Against Blackburn, on 31st December 2011, I was on the bench. Ferguson puts Rafael in midfield with Ji Sung Park. Then I gave up. I was really bummed.”
It was the beginning of the end of Paul...

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