The Spaniard has been the key to allowing Pogba to have greater freedom for the Red Devils, adding discipline and work-rate to the midfield
For the entirety of Jose Mourinho’s reign at Manchester United, there were widespread questions as to when we would see the Paul Pogba who had pulled on a Juventus shirt.
Mourinho had authorised the world-record £89.5 million signing of the midfielder after he had won four straight Serie A titles with the Bianconeri, yet the Portuguese manager just couldn’t seem to get Pogba playing as he had in Italy.
“I watched him a lot at Juventus and the man who controlled the game was Andrea Pirlo,” Paul Scholes told BT Sport in one of a number of analyses on Pogba’s ailing United form.