‘Best timing for me and Jose’

In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports’ Thierry Henry, Paul Pogba says it was the right time for both himself and Jose Mourinho to join Manchester United, and insists the Portuguese manager’s status in the game helped his decision.

Pogba re-joined United for a world-record £89m fee from Juventus earlier this month, having left the club in 2012 under Sir Alex Ferguson.

His second United debut should come at Old Trafford on the first Friday Night Football of the season against Southampton, live on Sky Sports 1 from 6.30pm, and Pogba says the timing has been perfect for both parties.

“He helped with things,” Pogba told Henry ahead of Friday Night Football. “You see a big coach like him, who has done a lot and has won everything, and when he comes here, takes the players and wants to go back to winning.

“I played four years in Italy, if he’d come two years after I’d left …

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