Manchester United Caretaker boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has led the team to the Champions League quarter-finals and to within two points of the Premier League’s top four, making Paul Pogba to shower him with praises.
Pogba has scored nine goals in 17 matches under Solskjaer, and says the former United player’s arrival had restored the players’ “freedom”.
“Of course we want him to stay,” Pogba said of Solskjaer. “The results have been great. I have a great relationship with him, he has a great relationship with the players.
“When a player is happy, he wants to keep being happy. Solskjaer deserves it. He knows the club, he knows everything about the club.
“He is a really happy coach that gave confidence back to the players.
“This gave us the freedom to play and enjoy football again because maybe we lost that with the results that we had before.”
Solskjaer took charge after Jose Mourinho was sacked following the club’s worst start to a season in 28 years.
Following Mourinho’s sacking in December, Pogba posted a cryptic tweet – which may have been pre-scheduled and was quickly deleted – that some felt was a dig at his departing manager.
“Maybe we lost confidence, maybe things went wrong,” Pogba said. “A lot of talking outside that we weren’t used to.