Alan Shearer wasn’t having it. Phil Neville wasn’t having it. And to judge from his expression as he deliberated for a second before divulging the reason for Paul Pogba’s absence from Manchester United’s 2-0 defeat by Arsenal, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wasn’t having it either. Solskjaer wasn’t so much throwing his star midfielder under the bus as beneath the hooves of a sacred cow. The whiff of Pogba’s entourage is enough to bring most people out in hives, but there is also a consensus that clubs are the rightful custodians of their players’ bodies.

Source: The Times January 03, 2020 17:05 UTC