The armband was taken away from Pogba after he publicly undermined the manager. Say what you want behind closed doors about the tactics but its different when you go public. This is after Jose tried to mend things with Pogba.
We were over reliant on Pogba and after the summer we had in the transfer market Jose became increasingly confrontational. Pogba has power in that dressing room and that's what killed Jose's time here. If we had players to take the load off Pogba, Paul would have less power but in the end that didn't happen. Who do you think the players are really going to side with? Pogba or Jose? You cannot assert your authority on a player the team is heavily reliant on while his agent is also stirring in public. If you look at the facts Jose tried every tactic with Pogba from defending him from Scholes, criticising him and giving him the armband.
Pogba vs Mourinho was exaggerated last season. After this summer it was very real. The relationship was totally destroyed after Southampton where Pogba was just plain bad.
The transfer window triggered Jose. I think from that point he knew where this was going to head especially with Pogba winning the world cup. The blame on Jose being so confrontational is on him, but we knew what we was getting into when we hired him. As soon as the board did not back him after giving him the contract it was over.
This isn't me blaming Pogba either. There should be other players to carry the load of transitions and carrying the ball from deeper areas. When Pogba is the only player that can actually do it, but is inconsistent with his application at times, it is inevitably going to be a disaster. Jose knows Pogba is the most talented player in that team, but as manager he cannot have one player be so influential in each facet of the team. Pogba is so talented, so popular, he is actually the one player Jose could not afford to collide with.