THE MISFITS Why Pogba and Jose should leave

THE only way out of the Jose the spine of the team. Is he a defensive Mourinho-paul Pogba saga for midfielder? Not really.

Which all reinforces what we’ve known Manchester United is to offload

about United for two years now – they them both at the end of the season.

have bought a load of superstars but the Or, in Pogba’s case, maybe even in jigsaw just isn’t fitting together. January. If United are going to win the Premier

I just don’t see a way for their relationship League again soon then it will be with to be repaired and, frankly, I don’t see faster, smaller, more mobile players either of them leading United to a Premier because that’s the way our top flight League title again any time soon. has gone over the last few years.

And substituting Pogba in yesterday’s And that has never been Mourinho’s embarrasing defeat at West Ham will have style. He always wants to bludgeon done nothing to build bridges. opponents to death with big, strong,

I genuinely thought Mourinho would powerful teams. change the way he approached the game That’s not going to work any more. Maybe when he finally got the keys to Old Trafford. in one-off games but not over the course But I realise now that he won’t adapt

of a 38-game season. for any club, and I’ll happily have a pound

Even Chelsea under Maurizio Sarri and with anyone who wants one that he will

Arsenal under Unai Emery are more leave at the end of the season.

dynamic and on the front foot now, so it’s A lot of you will think, ‘Well, hang on, if Mourinho’s not like several years ago going to leave then why when there were a few doesn’t Pogba just sit tight and distinct styles within the Big the new manager can build a Six. If you’re going to win the team around him? He is a Premier League then you World Cup winner after all’. have to join that group and

But I don’t think the I’m not convinced Pogba Frenchman is suited to the (right, with his gaffer) is the Premier League and the type type of player who is going of football you need to play if to help get United there. you want to win it. I wrote last week in my

Look at Manchester City, Daily Mirror column that I’d Liverpool and Tottenham, give it another 10 or 15 games proponents of high-tempo, if I were Mourinho to see if high-octane football. struggling striker Alexis

It’s all about mobility with those clubs Sanchez could find the form that convinced and that’s not really Pogba’s game. United to sign him and, if not, a parting

I know people will jump down my throat of the ways would be the answer. So I’m and say ‘who would you rather have, Pogba conscious that it may sound like my answer or James Milner, Pogba or Jordan Henderson?’ to all United’s ills is, ‘Get rid, get rid, get rid’.

But this is an acknowledgement that But I had plenty of United fans agreeing professional football at the top level is with me on Sanchez, so it will be interesting about mobility and Pogba is rangy rather to see how many agree with me on Pogba than super-mobile. So, with that in mind, and Mourinho. where do you play him? As far as those two stand, the question

Do you play him as a creative No.10? I Manchester United fans should be asking don’t think that’s his best position. themselves is this: ‘In the 2019-20 season,

Do you play him slightly to the right? can you bank on either of them to win you He did well doing that for Juventus and, a Premier League title?’ at times, for France but that’s a bit of a I just don’t think you can and that would waste of £89million. For that sort of money tell me everything I’d need to know if United you want someone affecting everything in were my team.

United fans should be asking, ‘Can you bank on either of them to win you a Premier League title?’ I don’t think you can