Reading back over the last few pages and the angst over Pogba having a couple of real poor games and where he should be playing/ what personnel should be utilised etc .....
Getting more and more an overlooked thing the more generations pass and want instant success but patience really is a virtue. This will all come with continued work on the training ground. Pogbas been at Utd what, a month? Mourinho's had them to work with what, 3 months or so? Just because you go out and hire one of the top managers in the World and then break a World record fee on a transfer doesn't mean that everything miraculously comes together. You're changing a whole philosophy drummed into them the last 2 years. It's going to take time.
For analogy, although their style of play is wholly different, we're only just now starting to see a true Jurgen Klopp team at Anfield. The constant interchanging and shape, knowing exactly where to be at any one time and it all being second nature, being able to think for yourself out there, particularly the midfield three who move like a constant triangle, isn't by chance. It's from hours and hours the training pitch doing it every single session. Day in, day out. And it's only now starting to bear real fruit after he's finally had the serious hours pre-season to really hammer home what we never had enough time in training last year to do through all the constant games and recovery. Next month will be his one year anniversary. Jose's been at Utd a quarter of that time. I'm a firm believer that teams under the top managers take on the identity of those managers. Why Jose's teams are often narly so and so's but who are all exceptionally well drilled and adapt to whatever it takes to grind out the win. But that's gonna' take time and hours and hours of repeated work on the training park. You probably won't really start to see a Mourinho side on a consistent basis until well into the second half the season.
Pogba will be fine in the three. But you have to allow not just him, but the other players to grow and understand just what's expected and what to do in every given situation to fill in or go. And the only way to get to that point is through time and hard work and repetition every day in training.
Patience is a virtue.
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