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MARTIN SAMUEL: The fact we don't know what Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United looks like makes for great theatre... but they can look frighteningly naïve and no script for their stellar cast shows a strategy is missing

Here's the crux of it with Paul Pogba. Just because he played like a drain against Leicester doesn't mean he's wrong about Manchester United.

When United go down, Pogba tends to go down, too. It's not the best look from a player who was supposed to be a catalyst for improvement, a problem solver in the heart of midfield. Yet he's different for France. He was different for Juventus. Maybe he had better direction.

For Pogba to come out after a damaging, four-goal defeat on Saturday and criticise the performance almost as if he wasn't part of it, invites ridicule.