[ad_pod ]Paul Pogba is no Roy Keane.Despite the Frenchman returning from injury to the starting line-up on Wednesday, the young and relatively inexperienced Axel Tuanzebe was handed the honour of wearing the captain’s armband against Rochdale (make of that what you will). But are we at all surprised?Watch Manchester United Live Streams With StreamFootball.tv Below
At the beginning of the summer, Pogba announced his intention to leave Old Trafford in search of a “new challenge”, with Real Madrid widely tipped to be his ballooned ego’s next location. On what planet does that then mean he deserves greater rewards? The United planet, of course, where ineptitude is rife.
Rule number one in selecting a captain handbook: don’t give it to a player who doesn’t want to play for the badge.
As the window raged on, however, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer insisted that Pogba wouldn’t be sold under any circumstance, it became increasingly apparent that fans would be stuck with another year of watching a caged exotic bird turn into a frenzied pigeon.
Is handing Pogba the captaincy the best way to free him? TalkSPORT hosts Ally McCoist and Alan Brazil had their say on the midfielder’s Carabao Cup snubbing and whether he should be made captain in the future…