Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has defended Paul Pogba’s excessive use of social media but has also lauded him for his reduced use recently.
Despite coming under fire for his excessive use of social media, Pogba has only tweeted 60 times in the last four years as Solskjaer believes that sites such as Twitter and Instagram can give your critics ammunition, especially when results aren’t going your way.
Solskjaer urged his players to be responsible on social media as he defended Pogba’s personality, “Paul has always been a larger-than-life character. He has a fantastic family but you don’t do yourself any favors. You don’t want to give anyone an excuse really so, of course, you don’t go to the Brit awards this week.
“We know leading up to the other game against Liverpool there were stories about players not being focused. It is not about that. We know they are focused, we know they are doing their best but he does help himself by toning it down a bit and that is just Paul being Paul.
“Knowing him he wants to win, he wants to be the best. You would be surprised by the number of minutes he’s played. Apart from David and maybe Nemanja he has played the most minutes for us in the league. There was a perception that Jose left him out all the time. Maybe he does not have the energy to do it. Who knows?”