Seems fans just pick and choose moments to support players. If Pogba was not here during Solskjaer's initial interim period Ole would not be the manager here because most our unbeaten run up to the PSG fixture was down to Paul's form. Notice during this phase he was played as the sole attacking midfield or a very advanced 8. Since then he's shown a lack of consistency in performances but much of it is also down to his deployment, why would you play a player which such poor defensive discipline in a double pivot role that requires discipline to not leave the back line exposed ?
I look at it as 50 / 50 situation, Pogba has failed to fully utilise all his opportunities while Solskjaer has also mismanaged the player like Mourinho from a coaching and tactical perspective. If the managers insistence is to play a 4-2-3-1 why are people mentioning a DLP how many midfielders are there in world football aside maybe Modric who can utilise that position creatively. There's hardly any at the level we would need considering we don't play well as a unit. We would need a Ndidi type of signing to complement playing alongside either Fred or Mctommimay.
The reason why Ole ditched the 4-3-3 was because it simply wasn't sustainable with the players we had, especially when Herrera left. Added to this, is that playing Pogba as the 10 in a 4-2-3-1 also massively imbalanced the team defensively. Just because he's the 10, doesn't mean that he's free from defensive duties - it isn't 1995 anymore. The modern 10 leads the press from the front, and Pogba just isn't interested in that. Look at the application of Bruno when he's played there and compare it to Pogba. It's a night and day's difference. Even with a manic Bruno now here, we still don't have that mobile defensive midfielder who can be trusted to cover the passing lanes that are opened up when Pogba and Bruno are further up the pitch. Look what happened when Matic was the defensive player in a midfield diamond against Istanbul, and that was in a system where he ostensibly should have had more protection. Now imagine if it's just him alone and Pogba and Bruno - it'll never work.
Pogba has played in that double pivot and excelled for France, winning a World Cup in the process. There is no reason why he couldn't have done the same here. Especially since, the way Ole plays the double pivot is much more enterprising than Jose's and even Deschamps' way of playing it.
Look, I don't hate Pogba, and I still hold out a crumb of hope that it works out for him because contrary to popular belief, I really do think that he loves the club, and from what everyone with an ear to the ground at Carrington says, he is very well liked and his application has never dipped. But at the same time, he needs to hold his hands up and say that it has gone wrong and it can't be down to the management. Jose backed him relentlessly for 18 months before finally turning on him. Ole has been backing him to the hilt even now. We've brought players in and through who we have hoped can be the players to unlock him, but every time it looks like it might have finally clicked for him, something happens which puts it back to square one. Tactics don't trump application, and the fact of the matter is Pogba's application has been sorely lacking. That is inexcusable.
I also do think the media haven't helped, with their wholly unrealistic expectations of him - he must be the only player in the world who is expected to be the best at almost literally everything. I suppose it's par for the course when you have that price tag on you, but that isn't his fault. He didn't choose it, in the same way that Maguire didn't choose his.
Unfortunately, as much as I hope things work out for him, I am realistic enough to realise that it's probably going to be for the best if we call it quits and wish him well at his next club. It's a massive shame, because there have been glimpses of that real game changing talent, but it's been all far too fleeting.
Hard to argue with this if we discuss Ole’s plans and how they changed. There was certain sequence of events in reality which unfolded in the way you described.