10 reasons why the 2016-17 summer transfer window was the best ever

#8 The window of homecomings

Pogba returned to United for a world record fee

There is a Hollywood script waiting to be made about football homecomings. There is a lot of romanticism associated with a player returning to a boyhood club.

Till the time the author develops the financial clout to finance such a movie, take a look at the top homecomings of this transfer window. Mats Hummels has developed into one of the finest centre-backs in the world at present. He is a rock at the heart of the defence for Die Mannschaft. He learnt much of his craft at Borussia Dortmund, whom he has now left in favour of a move back to boyhood club Bayern Munich.

Mario Goetze was a Dortmund fan favourite before he acrimoniously left the club to move to Bayern. This summer sees him reunited with the yellow and black faithful and long-time friend Marco Reus, back at Dortmund.

Alvaro Morata needed first team football to build on his promise. He developed into a fine marksman at Juventus, prompting Real Madrid to utilise the buy-back clause in his contract to bring him back to Madrid.

The jury is out on whether David Luiz cuts it as a good centre-back, but having fallen down the pecking order under Unai Emery at PSG, Luiz completed a deadline day move back to Chelsea.

Deadline day also saw the return of Tomas Rosicky to boyhood club Sparta Prague, and Denis Suarez returned to the Barcelona from Villareal.

The most talked about homecoming of the summer window was definitely that of Paul Pogba. The United youth product, who left the club in search of first-team opportunities, returned after a prolonged transfer saga and has a lot to prove, to live up to his world record transfer fee.