Mour aggro for Jose as Pog hits out

is different,” said Pogba. “He wouldn’t go against the players. Maybe Ole wouldn’t pick them, but it’s not like he puts them on the side, like they don’t exist any more. That’s the difference.

“Once I had a great relationship with Mourinho, everybody saw that, and the next day you don’t know what happened.

“That’s the strange thing and I cannot explain to you because even I don’t know.”

The pair fell out near the end of the manager’s time in charge at Old Trafford, Pogba benched for his final game, a 3-1 defeat to Liverpool in December 2018.

Asked to explain why United’s players respond better to Solskjaer (top) than they did to Mourinho, Pogba told Sky: “Maybe it’s because he’s a bit closer to the people. Every coach has their own ways and, as a player, you have to adapt.

“Sometimes it doesn’t suit you, and sometimes it does. Ole has helped Luke Shaw (above) a lot. It was difficult with Luke and Mourinho, but he proved he has the quality and trust of the manager.”

Pogba was dismissive of Mourinho’s efforts to divert attention from Tottenham’s 3-1 home defeat to United last weekend. He added: “We won, he lost, and he doesn’t want to speak about it. He wants to speak about someone’s dad, that’s what he does. Everybody knows him, it’s very Mourinho.”