Jose Mourinho and Paul Pogba's relationship looks to have taken a turn for the worse with numerous outlets including BBC Sport and The Telegraph stating that Jose Mourinho has told the midfielder that he will never captain Manchester United again.
This comes following the Frenchman's comments in the wake of his side's 1-1 draw at home to Wolves last weekend, with Pogba appearing to criticise how his team approached the game:
I’m not the manager, I cannot, like, say that but … obviously we should show more option of playing but I cannot say that because I’m a player. That’s my way of thinking - we should move better, we should move more, yeah.
It was Pogba's mistake that allowed Wolves to mount the attack that would end in their equaliser, but despite this Pogba stated it was a mistake that United didn't attack more in the game:
I know I lost the ball (for their goal). Then there were a few more mistakes and not a lot of movement in front because we didn’t really put them in trouble. We are at home and we should play much better against Wolves. When we are at home we should attack, attack, attack. That’s Old Trafford. We are here to attack. I think teams are scared when they see Man United attacking and attacking. That was our mistake.
Pogba then seemed to try and dampen the impact of his comments, tweeting that his words had been used to create a 'polemic':
Some people make polemic even from “good morning” to create drama ? Big Pogoodmorning everyone hope u get it twisted ?
— Paul Pogba (@paulpogba) September 24, 2018
Mourinho has also alluded to his discontent with certain players in his match programme notes for tonight's Carabao Cup tie against Frank Lampard's Derby:
[The Wolves match was] an important lesson; a lesson that I repeat week after week after week, a lesson that some boys are not learning.
Every team that play Manchester United are playing the game of their lives, and we need to match that level of aggression, motivation and desire - 95% isn't enough when others give 101%.
Pogba has been left out of tonight's squad to face Derby.
