28 Sep 2018
Pogba will play at West Ham but no player is bigger than club - Mourinho
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Paul Pogba will play for Manchester United at West Ham on Saturday but manager Jose Mourinho has warned that "no player is bigger than the club".

A clip of the midfielder and the United boss having a tense exchange on the training ground emerged on Wednesday.

Mourinho has previously said he has "no problem" with Pogba despite telling him he will not captain the club again.

"Tomorrow he plays," said Mourinho on Friday, but refused to elaborate on the reasons for his decisions.

The Portuguese was commenting for the first time since pictures emerged of a dispute between the pair at the Premier League club's Carrington training complex.

That came a day after Mourinho told the 25-year-old France international he is no longer United's "second captain".

When it was suggested at Friday's news conference that he did not need to rebuke his £89m record signing in front of the cameras, which were present for the training session, Mourinho said: "I don't care about the cameras."

He said their relationship was "good" and added: "Nobody trained better than Paul Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Some trained as well as, nobody better."

Wednesday's exchange took place after Mourinho was told a social media post had been uploaded by Pogba in which he was laughing and joking with team-mate Andreas Pereira shortly after the end of Tuesday's Carabao Cup penalty shootout defeat by Derby.

The United manager summoned Pogba to him as the pair made their way onto the training pitch and made a press officer explain the allegation.

Pogba reacted with incredulity.

He denied responding to the defeat in the way it appeared and said - accurately - that the mobile reception on a match night at Old Trafford is so bad the post, which he had sent much earlier in the evening, had only gone live when he got a decent signal, which was as he was leaving the stadium. Mourinho has accepted this explanation.

More to follow.