No one had seen Paul Pogba yet but they had heard about him. Manchester United’s director of youth Jim Ryan had scouted the French teenager at Le Havre and he came back raving about what he saw. But on the morning of his first session at Carrington, Pogba wasn’t there in the changing rooms with the other players and coaches. He hadn’t been around the training ground either.
“I hadn’t seen him anywhere,” says Paul McGuinness, Pogba’s first coach at United. “Then suddenly this gangly lad came running out with that bouncy sort of step of his and I thought ‘Is Jim right? He looks like he’s on a growth spurt. Can this lad be skilful as well?’ We started training and it was just,
