“We waited for them to attack and stayed very compact as a team because we knew that if you attack them from the beginning then you run into a knife”.
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Through three Premier League games and one European contest, the 23-year-old hasn’t looked like a £50m player, let alone an £89m one.
The France worldwide joined United from Juventus this summer for a world-record transfer fee of £89million.
“He’s not the greatest controller of a football game”, the ex-England worldwide told BT Sport ahead of United’s Europa League clash with Feyenoord.
But Mourinho says fans need to be patient with the star player, adding that Pogba had a little time to rest after Euro 2016.
“But I’m full of trust in him because I know the player he is; I know he’s a very good guy with a lot of ambition, so the form will come naturally”. The team improves, Paul improves.
“It depends on the situation”.
“There are clubs that paid 20, 30, 40 million, which is a bigger deal than United paid for Paul because you make a relation between what you pay and the club revenue and you realise that other clubs paying 20, 30, 40 is a much bigger thing than what United did”, reported the Guardian.
Pogba also came under fire from Sky Sports pundit and Sportsmail columnist Jamie Carragher for an “ill-disciplined” performance in the Manchester derby last Saturday – a match United lost 2-1. It’s not a problem with his position – he feels comfortable in [either]. “I prefer to be four in front than four behind, that’s obvious, but as you are saying it’s very early days”. We spoke to Juventus – they really wanted to try for the Champions League, they gave him the No. 10 shirt and we said we would give it one more year.
And while the post mortem on the Red Devils’ second defeat in a week largely centred on the underwhelming efforts of some of United’s fringe players given an opportunity in Holland – Marcos Rojo, Morgan Schneiderlin and Matteo Darmian, among them – Scholes trained his focus on Pogba’s ineffective display.
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