Manchester United director Jose Mourinho said Paul Pogba indicated he is on an indistinguishable level from Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar following his execution against Barcelona.
Mourinho's men wrapped up their pre-season voyage through the United States with a 1-0 misfortune to Barca at the International Champions Cup, yet Pogba impressed for the Premier League monsters.
While United were outflanked for expansive times of the match at FedEx Field, Pogba demonstrated why the Red Devils broke the world-record exchange expense to bait him back to Old Trafford a year ago with his physicality and aptitude against Barca.
Mourinho commended the 24-year-old France global post-coordinate, saying: "With Messi and Neymar, there is just a single [of each]. There are not two. [Luis] Suarez, [Andres] Iniesta, [Gerard] Pique, Ronaldo, [Gareth] Bale, [Luka] Modric, Toni Kroos, there is just a single of them. So they can play for one club and not two. We can't have them. They have a place with the clubs.
"You can be working hard strategically to enhance your group, to enhance your players, yet a few players are extraordinary and against that nature there is no other viable option for you. In the genuine matches you endeavor to repay the distinction in quality with a specific strategic association, and with that you can win.
"In football it is feasible for a group to be superior to the total of the parts. Be that as it may, the parts are stunning. Their association with the ball is astonishing. You can contend about the control of space, strategies and reduced squares, yet the player's association with the ball is as yet the most critical thing. Indeed, even as an adversary on the seat as am I, it is delightful to see the folks' association with the ball.
"Today, one of my players, Paul Pogba, demonstrated the level. He demonstrated that he has a place at that level."
In the wake of completing 6th in the Premier League last season, United have come up against Barca and La Liga and Champions League holders Real Madrid amid pre-season.
What's more, as United try to come back to the summit of English football in 2017-18, Mourinho was upbeat to test himself against the world's ideal.
"On the off chance that you need to contrast and Real Madrid or Barcelona, it is anything but difficult to think about the level of the players and nature of the group," Mourinho said. "Be that as it may, we don't play in an indistinguishable rivalry from them unless we meet in Europe, so we favor not to contrast ourselves and them.
"We like to contrast and groups in the Premier League and we are significantly more adjusted to that hard rivalry. It has an alternate style, an alternate sort of player.
At this time the best players are in these two clubs and you need to acknowledge that as a reality. Be that as it may, for us to play against both in pre-season without weight or being stressed over an outcome, simply endeavoring to play as well as can be expected, was beneficial for us.
"Both played with their best group. Barcelona did. Just Pique was on the seat. Genuine Madrid, just Ronaldo and [Sergio] Ramos didn't play. So it is, beneficial for us to quantify against them."
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