CSKA Moscow coach Viktor Goncharenko believes his side’s bad luck will be Manchester City’s gain as he prepares to face Paul Pogba at Old Trafford.
“Of course Pogba is a player who is able to do anything on the pitch — it will make things easier for Manchester City and not for us,” said Goncharenko.
“Our young players will have something to learn from him playing in the game but at the same time we cannot allow him to play at his best and show everything he is capable of.”
Goncharenko arrived in England a matter of hours after his predecessor at CSKA, Leonid Slutsky, left Championship strugglers Hull by mutual consent.
That is not how the former Russia boss envisaged his move to England playing out but Goncharenko was unsurprised, if not unsympathetic.
“Any manager should be ready for a sacking at any time,” he said.
“Sometimes it is not even based on results. Of course we wished Leonid to succeed but this is life, it is football.”
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