Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is a top trending term on Twitter right now and it’s for all the wrong reasons. The most expensive player in club history (and the world at the time he was re-acquired in 2016) often looked dazed and confused on the pitch tonight in the Red Devils draw at Southampton.

Getting only the single point from a trip to the St. Mary’s is basically a loss as United were taking on a side that’s currently sitting in the relegation zone. You win, lose or draw as a team, but Paul Pogba looked very disinterested in getting any kind of result today. You know how elite his talents and abilities are as an individual player, so one has to wonder just what was going through his head today as he turned in a performance that was beyond dreadful.

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Manchester United had a very disappointing, to put it mildly, summer transfer window. Manager Jose Mourinho was on an aggressive hunt to upgrade the centre back position, but none of those targets ever came over to Old Trafford. There are various reasons why United weren’t able to secure a new and better central defender, with a narrative starting to emerge of United not being the ultra-attractive destination it used to be.

It could be that some players don’t want to work under Mourinho. Or it could be that the club doesn’t have the cachet it once did.

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Alexis Sanchez has just not been himself since he moved over to Manchester United from Arsenal last January, and he’s not going to have an opportunity to come correct any time soon. The Chilean has failed to produce since making the switch to Old Trafford, and now he faces a spell of potentially six weeks on the sidelines due to a major hamstring injury.

More specifics will be known, and a potential timeline for his return defined once the team gets the results of his scans, but manager Jose Mourinho gave a very detailed answer about the seriousness of the injury Sanchez suffered in training on Thursday.  “It is an aggressive muscular injury,” Mourinho said at his Friday news conference.

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On Tuesday night, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said his club must ensure that David de Gea, “the best goalkeeper in the world,” stays with the club long term.

Following a very dominant performance, in which the Spaniard registered a clean sheet versus Young Boys in a 1-0 win that clinched United’s place in the UEFA Champions League knockout round, Mourinho said that De Gea wants to stay put, and that his camp and the club are working on getting a deal in place.

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After Manchester United edged out Young Boys 1-0 in yet another Old Trafford snooze fest, Red Devils manager Jose Mourinho declared his No. 1 David de Gea “the best goalkeeper in the world.”

The victory secured a place in the UEFA Champions League knockout round for United. Mourinho also said the Spanish international in goal, who will be out of contract in 2020, wants to stay put. De Gea, reportedly a target of both Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain, certainly turned in a man of the match performance tonight against the Swiss side.

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