THEY are the three Pogba’s from Paris that remain as close as ever, but whose careers could not be more different. While Paul has become a household name and worldwide star, his elder brothers have still to reach the same heights or enjoy the same acclaim.

Yet the Juventus midfielder, who has been linked with multi-million pound moves to Chelsea, Manchester City and Barcelona in recent weeks, will now receive updates from Firhill and Scottish football as well as closer to home. His elder sibling Mathias yesterday became Partick Thistle’s latest summer signing as he completed a move from Crawley Town on a one-year deal.

While his brother bids for Serie A and Champions League glory with Juve and twin Florentin, a defender, turns out for Ligue 1 side Saint-Étienne, Mathias will look to help Thistle to another successive season in the Premiership as the siblings continue their journeys down very different roads.

“Football has also been part of our lives since we were four or five,” Pogba said. “We will only stop when we get older. We grew up in Paris and it was always going to be football because we didn’t like school.

“I’m proud of both of my brothers. Paul talk every day – about football, life, everything. He can give me advice and he has done because if he has something to tell me he will do it, but as I am his older brother II can also do the same.

“He grew up very quickly and you could tell from a young age that he would become a very good player. He was mature early. Of course he has been playing with top players from a young age at Manchester United and then Juve. We always knew he was a top talent but we didn’t expect him to get to where he is as quickly as he has.”

While his younger brother has emerged as one of the top talents in the world, Mathias has had had a far more nomadic career to date as he has attempted to make his mark in the game. After joining the Celta Vigo academy alongside Florentin eight years ago, he has had spells at Quimper, Wrexham, Crewe and Crawley. It is his time in Italy that stands out – for all the wrong reasons – for the Guinea international, though, as he now looks to settle into life in Glasgow.

“I was at Pescara and it was the worst experience of my life,” Pogba said. “They don’t know about respecting people there. My game time was very very low. I wasn’t playing at all and I was shown no respect at all.

“It was the manager Marco Barrone. It’s a long story to explain but the short version is I got no game time at all and he never spoke to me at all – except when I told him I wanted to leave last December. That was the only time we spoke. Even when I arrived we never even had a conversation or anything. He wasn’t even watching me play.”

Having completed the latest move in his career and signed on at Firhill, Pogba can now look to make a name for himself in Scotland. And the striker could make his debut against Celtic this weekend after his patience paid off.

“I had been waiting all summer for a club to come then Partick Thistle came in,” Pogba said. “It was the first proper offer I had and Ii said to myself ‘let’s do this’. As a footballer you want to train every day and then play at the weekend so it was tough waiting for a call or a text.”