COMMENT: The Premier League can be a fantasy. With it's money. It's fame. It can be another world. But even at the elite level of Manchester United, the multi-millionaires can't avoid the consequences of their actions...

Now clear of this ankle injury of his, he's back in training this week. Paul Pogba. Indeed, he's back at Carrington. Gracing the club and it's staff with his presence, he'll bounce in like butter wouldn't melt. Same as it ever was. Everything as he left it. Or so he thinks...

For Carrington is a very different place to when he was last mixing with his teammates. The dynamic has shifted. Transformed. That inexplicable sense or mood within a club. The atmosphere. The craque. Whatever you want to call it, the dynamic has changed. The void left by Pogba filled by a new face. A positive force. The No6 is no longer the 'it' guy. The one who sets the mood. Who fills the room. Bruno Fernandes now holds that baton - and no-one inside the club wants to see him give it up.

That Fernandes has also replaced Pogba on the pitch makes this situation all the more compelling. Reality is about to hit Pogba between the eyes. This isn't a Zlatan Ibrahimovic moment. Yes, the Swede kept his young teammate in check. But that was strictly off the pitch. Fernandes is effectively a double threat - a personality to wrestle away the influence of Pogba on those around him, but also a midfielder to replace the Frenchman on matchday.

"I tell the players this bus is moving," Pogba's former manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, would often quip. "This club has to progress. And the bus won't wait for them..."

Which is exactly what Pogba is now confronted with.

He could've done his rehab at Carrington. He could've worked with local fitness coaches and medical staff. He could've been in every day, being with his teammates, supporting them, being involved. But he didn't. He wasn't. Instead, with the support of those adoring execs from all his endorsements, he was here, there and everywhere. A globetrotting injury recovery. All a highlight reel for his moneymaking social media empire. United weren't even a footnote. His teammates fared worse.

In contrast, Fernandes' social media is all United. His new teammates. His new fans. All front of mind.

"That's Paul," one Carrington source, when asked about Pogba's choice to do his rehab away from the club, told this column last week. He won't thank us for it, but there was a clear weariness in our insider's response.

But in the positive ledger, they now have an alternative. And the manner and swiftness with which Fernandes has been embraced by all at United is proof enough of how dire things have been inside the club.

Harry Maguire is the captain - the leader - of this new dressing room. But Fernandes is the heartbeat. The one who sets the tone. And as staff around the place are happy to impart, he's everything Pogba isn't.

The former Sporting CP captain is all enthusiasm - but also humility. You won't see Fernandes gatecrash a teammate's TV interview. But he does want to be involved. He's passionate. He cares. And he doesn't need an agent or media rep to tell us so. He does it all through deeds.

As his manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, said: "He's another conductor and leader and winner. He wants to win. He doesn't take 99 per cent as good enough."

Wayne Rooney, for one, saw it up close on Thursday night. The former United captain finished on the wrong end of an FA Cup defeat, but came away impressed by Fernandes.

The Derby County player-coach, according to The Sun, telling his former teammates the Portugal midfielder will make them better players. And even compared him with Paul Scholes.

The feedback was mutual, those Rooney spoke to were "really excited Bruno is there. They said he has brought a buzz back around the club".

But we don't need an inside word from Rooney to tell us the obvious. We can all see it played out in front of us. The body language. The gestures. You don't have to look hard, it's all there in front of you. The players are lively. The team is positive. United is a happier place for Fernandes' presence.

And it's also a happier place for Pogba's absence. The disruption. The cliques. It all dissipated as Pogba jetsetted around the globe. He could've been part of it. He should've been part of it. But he didn't want to be involved.

Now he returns. But for Pogba - and finally as a Manchester United player - there's consequences for these choices. This bus, with it's new conductor, has moved on and he's been left at the stop.