If you thought that, after the Chelsea game, the Paul Pogba-José Mourinho debacle was over, you were wrong.
After all, a happy family doesn’t sell newspapers, and L’Equipe dedicate yet another page to the relationship between the France international and the Portuguese manager.
Picking up where they last left off, the French newspaper want to make it clear that all is not rosy between the two, emphasising the low point that was the Newcastle game, when Mourinho called Pogba into his office in the following days to ‘reprimand’ him.
Ending up on the bench against Sevilla only to come on early in the first half due to an Ander Herrera injury, Pogba showed an ability to play a simpler game, which he carried on doing against Chelsea in the Premier League the following weekend.
Talk about the midfielder died down, yet L’Equipe certainly don’t think this is over, explaining one of the reasons Mourinho has stopped picking on him is because he can’t afford to ‘go any further’ due to the injury situation in midfield.
The manager wasn’t entirely satisfied with his star’s performance against Chelsea, allegedly criticising him for his lack of aggressiveness off the ball against the Blues, something that annoys him ‘as much as his lifestyle’.
With both men tied to the club for the foreseeable future, we’ll have to wait and see what happens, but Pogba apparently ‘doesn’t hide his weariness’ in private, and while it doesn’t mean an exit is on the cards, ‘the club is aware of the situation and anything seems possible’.
Man United’s Paul Pogba and Jose Mourinho problem: Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Shades of same problems Deschamps had: “I’m not going to build the team around Paul…. he needs to adapt.”
And what L’Equipe said, then and now.
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— Sport Witness (@Sport_Witness) 15 February 2018
