It’s no secret that the relationship between Manchester United’s manager Jose Mourinho and the team’s biggest star Paul Pogba took a wrong turn in the recent months. Mourinho criticized Pogba on several occasions and stripped him from the vice-captaincy last week which didn’t sit well with the French international. These tensions culminated into a heated exchange between the pair during one of the training sessions, with the video of the incident finding its way on the internet.
Despite all of this, Jose Mourinho claims that his relationship with the 25-year-old midfielder is “good,” and that he is pleased with Paul Pogba’s effort in training. Mourinho, however, didn’t fail to mention that “Manchester United is bigger than anyone” and that he as a coach has to defend that point of view.
“He’s a player like the others, no player is bigger than the club and if I’m happy with his work he plays, if I’m not happy he doesn’t play,” – Mourinho told reporters.
“Manchester United is bigger than anyone and I have to defend that.” – he added.
Although the reporters wanted to find more about the confrontation between him and Pogba, Mourinho wasn’t ready to share.
“The training session was open, you had some cameras with some potential to get some of the words, maybe you have to change the potential if you want to know everything that is said because I’m not going to comment, it was a conversation.” – the 55-year-olds said.
Sources close to Man Utd. say that the team is divided at the moment. It appears that Paul Pogba isn’t the only one unhappy with Jose Mourinho’s coaching and work methods with Anthony Martial, Eric Bailly and Andreas Pereira turning on him. One thing all three of these players have in common is that they are not playing regularly under Mourinho. Now it remains to be seen who will end up winning the fight for the Man Utd’s locker room.
