POGBA CAN PLAY IN DEFENCE... MOURINHO

The Red Devils have been dealt a major blow with the news that Eric Bailly looks set to miss all games in 2016, suffering a knee injury during the second half of Sunday's 4-0 defeat to Chelsea.

However, Mourinho has hinted that his £89m- star midfielder Pogba could help solve the problem.

Pogba, a box-to-box midfielder and creative force with an eye for goal is yet to hit the form that made the Red devils cough out a World record fee for.

His coach Mourinho thinks that Pogba has all the attributes required to become a phenomenal defender.

He said: “He’s a top player and I think he could be a phenomenal central defender.

“With the quality of his pass, with his aerial game, with his agility in such a big body, for his defensive side of the game, coming from the back with the ball, he would be a phenomenal central defender, too.”

The Special One told Sky Sports: “He can play in so many positions.
“The problem is not the position. The problem is not the tactical system. The problem is, in my opinion, somebody that comes from a different style of football and needs this time to be at his best level in football that is really difficult to play, especially for midfield players.”


“I think it is really difficult to play or adapt from different realities, but he is a phenomenal player. He has unbelievable potential. He has years and years to develop his game, so that expectation and investment from the club is based on that – a super player for the next seven or eight years.”

“He’s getting better and better and better at every level. That’s our expectation. We don’t expect Paul to arrive here and the next day to be unbelievable. But the other thing is that we trust him so much that we pass to him this kind of feeling.

“He is a very self-confident boy too, so we are living well with the critics, if you want, and we know what the critics are."