Man Utd news: Rooney on Pogba's struggles under Mourinho – "He needs freedom to create – let him make mistakes!"

Wayne Rooney think Paul Pogba must play his own game to get the most out of him, which, according to him, did not happen under Jose Mourinho.

Pogba and Mourinho have faced each other several times this season. The French international has announced that he will never be captain of the club once. A heated debate also took place on the training ground after a loss to Derby in the Carabao Cup.

In recent games under Mourinho, Pogba did not play for the Premier League game and did not play at all in the manager's last game – a 3-1 defeat to rival Liverpool.

Acting manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer brought the 25-year-old back to his eleven. Pogba responded by scoring four goals and adding four badists in six games since the change of direction.

Rooney believes that Pogba must be able to play freely to get the best out of him.

"Well, I think that with Paul, I saw him go through the academy to United and he has a lot of skill, but the hard times that he was going through. .. if you do not have a good relationship with the coach, then it's hard to be at your peak if you feel like the coach is considering every decision you make, every pbad you make, "said Rooney. ESPN.

"Paul Pogba will give the ball, he will try pbades [and] it may not be the right pbad, but you have to let it go because two or three of those pbades will create goals, create opportunities.

"I think that he found it difficult under Mourinho, I think that a player and a manager with big egos clashed and that the result would never be great."

Pogba is not alone in his resurgence under Solskjaer, who saw Manchester United win six wins in six games and move up in the race to rank among the top four.

Marcus Rashford has scored four goals in six games since taking over Solskjaer and seems to have outscored Romelu Lukaku in the top rank of the club 's lead role.

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And Rooney revealed that he had spoken to Rashford when the two men were together on an international mission in November, insisting that he had informed the 20-year-old that he was working too hard.

"When I came back to play in the national team against the United States, I talked to Marcus and he was trying too hard, he was trying too hard, he was working too much, he was tired at the end of the matches," Rooney said. I said.

"But the scary thing with Marcus, when he runs against you with the ball, he's impossible to defend and I reminded him to keep going down that path, just to get the ball and run against the defenders."