I Was Always Going To Get Fired If I Did Not Handle Pogba Well – Mourinho

Former Manchester United boss, Jose Mourinho has said he risked being fired by the club if he handled Paul Pogba in a wrong way.

The breakdown of Mourinho’s relationship with Pogba was one of the reasons why the Manchester United was sacked in December, paving the way for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

In a recent interview, Mourinho referred mockingly to Pogba as “His Excellency” and claimed he was at risk of being sent “on vacation” by United if he did not to handle the midfielder in the right way.

His words, “We would play a team that was 30 kilometres from Manchester and a player asked me if after the game he could return to Manchester without the team and go on his own,”

“I told him, ‘If we went to London and you wanted to stay there, that would be one thing. But this is close, it doesn’t make sense’.

“The guy was upset. But then we won the game and he asked me again. Because I was happy, I gave in a little and said, ‘At least leave on the bus and ask your chauffeur to catch up with you 10 minutes from the stadium, then go as you wish’.

“And this guy in the locker-room still wasn’t happy. I went to the press conference and when I arrived at the team bus, parked beside it was a Rolls-Royce with his chauffeur.

“After all, the car was new and His Excellency would like to leave the stadium in his Rolls-Royce. Now how do we deal with this? You [tell him] never go in the Rolls? You can go when I’m happy? Or you solve this thing in another way to get me ‘on vacation’.”