Here we go again!

and what sources maintain is the entire issue that started this problem.

There was also the way Mourinho so conspicuously mentioned the player not feeling 100%, something that has irritated him with others in the

For his detractors, problems like this with Pogba would be close to the latter, and seem to represent one reason the mood around his teams can so swing.

They see it as just another example of Mourinho’s almost self-defeating need for ultimate declared. “You’d have to go to university to make a speech about it. ‘Confrontational leadership’, is basically when you are ready to provoke your players, to try to create some conflict with the intention to bring out the best from them. “

There’s also the fact that it for a long time did bring the best out of them and no one could find any fault because you couldn’t see them for the glare of the huge major trophies.

The problem is that the trophies stopped becoming so prolific after 2010, so it was easier to see these issues, and wonder whether they were connected.

There have of course been many theses written about why the Portuguese hasn’t been as effective since that summer of 2010, when he went to Real, and they don’t need to be repeated again.

A Casillas situation with Pogba, however, also does not need repeating.United are just not in the same position of strength as Real were then, but there’s so much more to it than that.

Real president Florentino Perez was willing to go against the then-30-year-old Casillas – and actually sold him to Porto the very next year – in a way that United are not with Pogba.

“They have too much riding on players like that,” one source said, “with so much marketing and commercial revenue built around him.”

On the other side, while Sports Illustrated reported that Pogba’s representatives have been starting to sound out potential buyers, The Independent understands that no big clubs are currently interested. Not at those prices.

The player is here to stay, so is this problem also here to stay?

It could well be that Pogba responds in the way that Mourinho intends, even if there do appear to be some fundamental tactical differences.

There’s also the fundamental football truth that a win – in this case one that Pogba has starred in – can make any issue go away.

It’s just that last Wednesday night it got worse, when it needed to get better. How it continues will dictate whether this is another big story, or none at all. –The Independent