Paul Pogba’s £89m move in golf terms

Manchester United broke football’s world transfer record yesterday when they splashed out a reported £89m on French internationalist Paul Pogba.

The 23-year, who joined from Italian club Juventus, signed a five-year deal that will net him a basic wage of £290,000 per week, making him the highest paid player in the English Premier League.

Pogba’s deal eclipses the £85m that Real Madrid paid for Welsh forward Gareth Bale in 2013.

All of which got us thinking: what is the scale of the transfer of Paul Pogba when viewed through golf-tinted glasses? Here’s what we’ve discovered…

FACT!

Tiger Woods is ranked No.1 on the PGA Tour’s career money list with total on-course earnings of $110m. That currently equates to £84.6m. In other words, you could have Tiger’s career and still not be able to afford Pogba.

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FACT!

At £290,000 per week, one year at Manchester United would place Paul Pogba at 63rd on the PGA Tour career money list and 17th on the equivalent European Tour list.

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FACT!

Henrik Stenson pocketed £1,175,000 when he won the Open this year. At that rate, he’d need to win it a further 76 times to win as much as Manchester United paid for Pogba.

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FACT! 

Pogba’s basic wage at Manchester United works out at £15,080,000 per year. Tiger Woods’ best season on the PGA Tour? That was in 2007, when he won seven times, including a major, and earned $10,867,052 – which is the rough equivalent of £8.3m.

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FACT!

Pogba’s annual salary would also pay for approximately 188,500 tickets for the Open Championship. In other words, he could have paid for every spectator to have attended this year’s event at Royal Troon (all 173,134 of them) and still have had plenty of change left over.

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AND FINALLY…

Still on Pogba’s annual salary, it is the rough equivalent of…

• 39,788 rounds at Pebble Beach
• 37,700 TaylorMade M1 drivers
• 44,352 nights in the Old Course Hotel (i.e. 121 years!)
• 4,524,000 Titleist Pro V1 golf balls
• 107,714 pairs of FootJoy Versaluxe shoes
• 86,171 rounds on the Old Course
• 53 years as a member at Liberty National, the world’s most expensive golf club

For United’s sake, let’s hope he’s worth it!

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Michael McEwan is the Deputy Editor of bunkered and has been part of the team since 2004. In that time, he has interviewed almost every major figure within the sport, from Jack Nicklaus, to Rory McIlroy, to Donald Trump. The host of the multi award-winning bunkered Podcast and a member of Balfron Golfing Society, Michael is the author of three books and is the 2023 PPA Scotland 'Writer of the Year' and 'Columnist of the Year'. Dislikes white belts, yellow balls and iron headcovers. Likes being drawn out of the media ballot to play Augusta National.

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