Midfielder’s failure to dazzle owed much to those around him and he was the undeserving poster boy for a mismanaged club
For United, there were only flashes of this glitter and stardust. His acquisition proved the coup that never was. Pogba certainly did not bomb but he failed to dazzle consistently like, say, Kevin De Bruyne or Bernardo Silva for Manchester City.
Was it his job to score more? Was he an attack-breaker? A schemer? A box-to-box dynamo? A silky-smooth ruthless assassin a la Silva or Silva’s namesake David, who also graced City’s title-winning XIs? Pogba became the undeserving poster boy for a farcically mismanaged club that did not go close to adding to a record 20 league titles after his arrival or in the three seasons before. Pogba was supposed to end this; but this was always a pipe dream. Instead, Pogba was maligned, seemingly for sporting a range of different-coloured haircuts and offering an endearing perma-smile.
Manchester United fans next to a mural of Paul Pogba last October before the 5-0 home defeat by Liverpool in which he was sent off.Left out here is the subtext. Pogba came to view United as no longer a “big club” that could win the title or any trophy – the last had been the 2017 Europa League, in which. Rangnick’s stance came in December. By February his tone had about-turned – perhaps he was bewitched by how much better Pogba was than the rest of the squad in training.
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