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Man United's Paul Pogba warned 'pull your socks up' by Jose Mourinho as he demands more consistency

Football

By Mirror | Apr 15, 2018

Jose Mourinho has told Paul Pogba to ‘pull up his socks’ in training to realise his potential at Manchester United.

The £89million France midfielder produced a Man of the Match performance at the Etihad last weekend as United came back from 2-0 down to spoil rival City’s planned title party.

Now the United boss has called on Pogba to produce more displays like that - and he says the hard work must start in training at Carrington.

“I think he has to try to keep that level of stability and from that stability will appear the special match with the special performance, like happened against City,” said Mourinho.

“The first thing is stability at a training level — stability during the working week. And the past two, three weeks I’m really happy with him.”

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Apart from stand-out displays at Arsenal and City Pogba has struggled to justify his mega-price tag this season and was stunned when Mourinho chose 21-year-old Acadamy product Scott McTominay ahead of him in some games.

But the United boss was full of praise for Pogba’s second-half display against City and said that he doesn’t expect goals every week, but he does want more consistency.

“I tell you exactly what I told him,” added Mourinho, “and that is that I don’t expect you to be Man of the Match every week, I don’t expect you to score two goals every week. But I expect you to be consistent in a certain level.

“So, if you ask me, am I expecting Paul now to be Man of the Match every week? No.

“Do I expect him to score goals every match? No.

“But I expect Paul - and I think that is the challenge he has to put to himself - to keep a certain stability and not to have the good match, then the so-so match and the bad match.”