The role of Paul Pogba's Man Utd discussed by Darren Fletcher | Football News

Fletcher spent some time coaching a reserved Manchester United team including Pogba

Former Manchester United midfielder, Darren Fletcher, talked about Paul Pogba in the Monday Night Football show, evoking his experience of French at Old Trafford and how to make the most of him …

The first time I went out with my illness five or six years ago, I was a spellcaster with the reserve team with Warren Joyce when the reserve team had many talented players like Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard and Ravel Morrison.

In this team, we played Pogba much higher on the field and in more advanced areas, whether in the center or on the left or the right. We felt like he was the only player on the team to win.

It's also because of the fact that we thought that he was showing some discipline in the middle of the park as a normal central midfielder.

Sir Alex Ferguson probably felt the same way. This goes back to a famous match where we think he left Manchester United.

We lost 3-2 against Blackburn and all of our midfield players were injured. The manager chose Ji-sung Park, Phil Jones and Rafael da Silva and Paul was on the bench. At that time, we did not feel that he was disciplined enough for the reserve team to play in the middle of the park, so take the plunge to play in the first team in a match. important was a big step forward.

He saw himself more as a central midfielder but we saw him more as an attacking midfielder, able to win areas and win the match.

Personally, I like to see him in the last third, where he can create and create things. He played high on the left for Juventus and for United, he has this connection with Anthony Martial.

They are both French, they have a good friendship and good relations. They can very well fit on the left because Martial can find himself in the second position of attacker, while Pogba can get lost, take people and create objects.

It's also a big boy who can enter the box. We are talking about Marouane Fellaini controlling the balloon on his chest, but Paul can do it. He can receive the ball in the last third on his chest, enter the surface and mark headers. I would therefore like to see it with a little more freedom to play and express myself.

Saturday against Bournemouth, he started in a more traditional no. 10 but he often found himself on the left as United attacked more and more on that side. Luke Shaw was bombarding and Martial was dangerous with his dribble, so they might not have as much offensive threat on the right side.

It's a bit like in the Arsenal case, where they were attacking all the time left when they had Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and Ashley Cole.

I think that could be a big part of Manchester United in the future, where a lot of their attacks could come from that side.

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