Pog has his day
Paul Pogba takes cryptic swipe at Jose Mourinho minutes after Man Utd sacking…. before deleting tweet
MANCHESTER UNITED ace Paul Pogba has taken a cryptic swipe at Jose Mourinho just minutes after the Portuguese was sacked by the club.
The French midfielder shared a picture of himself looking smug with the line: "Caption this!", before deleting the post.
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Pogba and Mourinho have had a notorious falling out this season which has ultimately been one of the crucial factors to his manager's downfall.
The pair had an infamous training ground bust-up in a video which went viral on social media.
The former Chelsea chief also made an astonishing attack on his record signing earlier this month - labelling Man Utd's record signing 'a virus' in front of his team-mates.
But the World Cup winner has come out on top as the Portuguese was shown the door by Old Trafford chiefs this morning.
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Mourinho was sacked after guiding the Red Devils to their worst league start in 28 years.
And former Red Devil and pundit Gary Neville was furious about Pogba's tweet.
He wrote on Twitter: "“Caption This “ You do one as well !"
On Monday, Neville said Mourinho would be sacked soon and blasted the board for handing him a new contract in January.
Michael Carrick will now take the reigns at Manchester United but the club are set to look externally for a caretaker manager in the wake of Mourinho's departure.
Mourinho is set to receive an astonishing £24million after being sacked by Man Utd.
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In the most recent development, Adidas have now said that Pogba's post was in no circumstances a purposeful dig at Mourinho.
One Adidas spokesman said: "Pogba's social media posts were a scheduled event, part of a marketing campaign.
"Immediately taken down once it became apparent that it could be misconstrued as disrespectful to Manchester United and Jose Mourinho".
Fans on social media are split over Neville's response to Pogba.
Many believed it was just a commercial mishap.
Arsenal legend Ian Wright said: "Really Gaz! Is that helping the club ?"
While another wrote: "Gary. Do you think he did it? Would it be fair to say his team did it and it was bad timing. Innocent until proven guilty surely!"
Another fan said: "reign it in a little bit @GNev2 Maybe I'm naive but why then does he tag his boot sponsor?"
While another said: "It’s clearly a scheduled tweet. Pogba was obviously training as it was posted. Drop the agenda Gary."
Other fans on social media believe Pogba's tweet was too coincidental to be planned.
All the signs suggested it was purposeful.
The timing of the tweet, along with Pogba's face in the picture, suggests it was more than just ill-timed.
One fan said: "Needs a bigger clear our then just Jose!"
While another said: "Well said, he doesn’t care about us at all".
Former Sunderland player Micky Gray thinks sacked Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will be really successful somewhere else
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