That was before the Watford and Newvastle game, wasn't it?
Either way, if Pogba wants to leave, can anyone blame him?
This is a player that, before he came to us, was in the World XI. He was getting into CL finals, playing with and against the best players in the world and winning major titles.
Since he's come to United, yes, he hasn't performed at the level expected (well, he hasn't been consistent), but we've hardly done him any favours.
I genuinely believe he came back to win stuff and put United back up there again, but just look at our team. I love every player at United (yes, even Lingard), but some of them are not even good enough to play for a top 6 side, never-mind getting us challenging for them EPL and other major titles.
Put yourself in Pogba's shoes. He's been here for four seasons. During those seasons, we haven't progressed. Actually, in terms of the quality of the squad, one could argue that it's worse then when he signed for. The signings overall have been poor. We've challenged for very little and have won the Europa League and Capital One Cup.
At 26, he's nearing his peak. He doesn't want to be stuck at a club that might take 3/4 years to rebuild. As I said before, he wants to be at a club challenging for major honours, and if he has an opportunity to do that, then I don't blame him.
Hargreaves and Scholesy were saying the same about Rashford the other day after the Burnley game. If we don't buck up our ideas and start winning things, then players like Rashford will start receiving offers, and although he's United through and through, it wouldn't a surprise to see him leave. Top players want to be winning things and playing at the highest level.
Fact is, Pogba is not to blame here! It's our shithouse of a club that has been awfully ran for the last decade or so. And I say decade because it first started when Rooney, wrongly or rightly, demanded the club to sign better players. E.g. signing Owen, Obertan and Valencia to replace Ronaldo. Despite the latter going on to be a fantastic servant for the club, it was then that our recruitment started to go down the drain, and if it wasn't for the mastery of Sir Alex, we'd have slipped into mediocrity ages ago.
It seems Ole has an idea of where he wants to go and what type of players he wants to sign. It will take time, but he seems to be changing the identity of the club. We want players who want to play for us. If that means no Pogba, then we move on and continue without him like we've done before when losing top players. It's that simple!