Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has hinted that he's spoken to Paul Pogba about recent comments made by the France international's agent, Mino Raiola.
The super-agent recently slammed Manchester United for being "out of touch with reality and without a sporting project" while also suggesting "they would even ruin Maradona, Pelé and Maldini".
It's not the first time that Pogba's agent has grabbed the headlines since his move back to Old Trafford and Solskjaer has hinted that he's already spoken to the Manchester United midfielder about Raiola.
"I don’t think I should be talking to agents or about agents that talk about us, but Paul is our player and agents are hired by players, not the opposite way around," Solskjaer said, quoted by The Independent.
"It’s not ‘agents’ players, it’s ‘our players’. What me and Paul are talking about I don’t have to talk to you about. That will be between us."
Solskjaer was staying tight-lipped about the extent of his conversations with Pogba, but the Manchester United boss did start to backtrack about comments he made in the aftermath of their defeat against Arsenal.
The Norweigan made headlines after saying that Pogba would be facing up to four weeks out after being told to undergo surgery by "his people", but Solskjaer has now tried to play down any rift between the two.
"It’s an ankle injury. Some bone fragments. It’s not a big massive injury," he added. "It will keep him out for a while. We felt he was going to be ready for Burnley. Then he wasn’t and we had to do the scan.
"It’s not the same injury, it’s a different injury. Of course, when you get that scan, we speak to him, you consult your own medical people as well like I did, when I did my operation.
"You want the best second opinion and the advice was to have it done. It’s not a major one and probably, as I said, three or four weeks.
"It wouldn’t be fair to risk any player’s health. You wouldn’t and if the player is not happy with what he’s feeling, he’s got loads of pain, then it might be a worry that it can get worse, which is always is. That is the decision."
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