COMMENT: For Jose Mourinho, this is no headache. Indeed, it's a problem that any manager in the game would love to have: where best to play Paul Pogba?

This week, both for his fans, and the Manchester United player himself, it's been a real education. Everyone has said their piece. Pundits, coaches, teammates, friends and family, they've all weighed in on United's €100 million man.

That was off the pitch. On it, the week captured in just a few days what United fans have seen from Pogba over two months. A flat performance against Bulgaria, in a game which France comfortably won, sparked a firestorm amongst the local media. Measured calls for Pogba to be dropped in the initial aftermath, were becoming a scream on the eve of Les Bleus' visit to Holland. But Didier Deschamps, the French coach, held his nerve, despite calling out Pogba himself, and was rewarded with the United man proving the matchwinner on the night.

But the debate continued to swirl and has followed Pogba all the way back to Manchester: what type of player is he?

"We're all looking for a Foe," a former Italian sports director, now agent, told Tribalfootball.com several years ago, "Y'know, a big brute. Six foot plus. Big engine. Can score goals and break up attacks. (Manchester) City are lucky to have him."

Looking at Pogba, as he arrived at Carrington for a second time in his career, United fans can be forgiven believing they were getting something similar to the late, great Marc-Vivien Foe.

Standing at 6ft 3in. Decent leg speed. Impressive stamina. You look at Pogba and are convinced this is the new Bryan Robson. As good as breaking up attacks as he is breaking forward. But that was never his game at Juventus - and the coaching staff in Vinovo never tried to shoehorn him into such a role.

Indeed, as this column warned several months ago, Juve had plans this season of pushing Pogba even further forward. To play off the centre-forward. His future, if he had remained in Turin, was never going to be as a box-to-box player.

Which would've been a shame. As it still would not have made the most of Pogba's powers. Juve, in his final season in Italy, handed him the coveted No10 shirt. But he's more than that. He's more than a No10.

What Mourinho has on his hands is the player Sir Alex Ferguson never managed to sign. Pogba - or at least his forerunner - is Fergie's greatest regret. The Frenchman is Gazza. Paul Gascoigne. A player who needed to always be involved. Capable of magic at any moment. In any area of the pitch. Prepared to even get his foot in - but you'd rather he left that to others (Gary Charles anyone?). This is what you can see in Pogba. The frustration of not having Gazza light up Old Trafford in the late '80s, can now be put to bed by Mourinho and Pogba.

The Frenchman needs to be involved. He needs to be everywhere. Not sitting on the 'Zidane flank', wide left. But centrally. We saw it against Leicester City. More so in his debut against Southampton. Everything good was played through Pogba that night. He didn't just do his best work in the final third. It was at the back and through the centre where he also launched attacks.

Yes, he needs to dig in. To meet his defensive duties. No player, not even Lionel Messi, is above doing the dogs work off the ball. And Mourinho is sure to drum that home. But the manager also knows that's not Pogba's strength. The slack can be taken up by his midfield partner.

This column in the past argued Pogba's best partner would be a deep-lying quarterback. A Michael Carrick type. But we were wrong. Pogba needs someone more mobile. A midfielder who can get around the pitch to sweep up when efforts fail to come off. That Mourinho has elevated Ander Herrera to such a role makes sense. More mobile than Carrick or Morgan Schneiderlin. He plays at the high pace, both on and off the ball, that Mourinho is demanding.

It's fascinating to learn that after one recent meeting on the training pitch, where Mourinho was explaining what he wanted from Herrera, the Spaniard replied to his manager that it was the complete opposite to what Louis van Gaal had demanded from him.

"He can be an important player for us, because we play with four attacking players plus Paul who likes a lot to go to different positions, to try and create," Mourinho has said of Herrera.

"But we need a player like Ander because he is very fast on the defensive transition, he can give us the security we need, especially against fast counter attacks."

Whether this partnership works long-term will be down to the Spaniard. But given Mourinho's words earlier this month, there's no dilemma about where Pogba is best utilised. He wants him everywhere "in different positions" to "try and create".

The hope, for the manager, is that he won't be forced to return to the market to make that happen. It really is now Herrera's job to lose.

INJURY TIME

Aloof. Arrogant. Self-obsessed. Paul Pogba has really copped it in the neck this week from his French critics. And this was after his winner in Amsterdam!

But that's from those on the outside, looking in.

Tatith Chong, United's Dutch youth teamer, offered us a little glimpse into a different side of the €100 million man. This week, Chong spoke about meeting Pogba for the first time.

"He came up and introduced himself. (Paul) Pogba said to me: 'you're an outside-left? I have seen a number of games of yours'."

Not exactly the words or actions of someone so self-absorbed...

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