The Rise and Fall of Paul Pogba: A Look Back at His Time with Manchester United and Juventus

news-content">Signing Paul Pogba has been one of Jose Mourinho’s biggest transfer ambitions in the past. During the summer transfer period in 2016, he managed to bring him to Manchester United for 105 million euros, but the French midfielder’s career gradually declined.

However, the first season of this pair at Old Trafford was very successful, the United players raised their heads English League Cup and mercy European league. Their relationship began to deteriorate in September 2018 when they clashed during training and José Mourinho stripped him of his captain’s armband.

“I’m just saying that almost everyone experiences a time in their career when they lose their sense of who they are and what they should be. I think Paul came back completely different after winning the World Cup with France in 2018.

Football was no longer the most important thing for him. He no longer shared the same philosophy and responsibility with his players,” said the Portugal coach about his former charge.

Paul Pogba he has not started in any of Jose Mourinho’s last three games on the Manchester United bench. “The Special One” left the position of coach of the big English club in December of the mentioned year, when he said that he did not get the necessary support from the management in this conflict, which destroyed his authority.

“When people in management support you, it’s a very positive sign and it has a positive effect on the whole team. But when you don’t get support because a player is too important to them, you find yourself in a very precarious position. Even if you’re a coach with a lot of experience, like I was,” explained José Mourinho.

After his departure, Paul Pogba remained in the service of the “red devils” for another four years, and in 2022 he returned to Juventuswhere he spent almost the entire season out of the game due to injuries.

Before the start of this season, he was found to have a positive result on a doping test, and the French footballer was sentenced to four years later. “I don’t like the situation Paul Pogba is in,” stressed the 61-year-old coach.