Jose Mourinho is having precisely none of Sunday’s suggestion that Paul Pogba could be sidelined for as long as 12 weeks.
It was initially believed that the Manchester United midfielder would be looking at roughly six weeks of recovery after he picked up a hamstring injury during the club’s Champions League group opener against Basel last week.
But that estimated timeline was extended after well-connected reporter Duncan Castles claimed that he had heard that Pogba could be missing for a total of three months, which came as a massively concerning update for United fans who don’t quite trust Marouane Fellaini as much as the enigmatic Frenchman.
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But Mourinho has hit out at those claims because he insisted that the club’s medical staff don’t even know for sure how long Pogba will be out for.
“I don’t know if it is 12 weeks or 12 days, honestly,” Mourinho said after the Red Devils’ 4-0 drubbing of Everton. “So any comment, any news, any rumour, is totally wrong, because we do not know if it is 12 weeks or 12 days.
“The player was diagnosed initially after the match, because of the conditions of the muscle and the bleeding, the decision was one more week to wait and to see really clearly in the scans the dimension of the injury and nobody in this club spoke about 12 days or 12 weeks, not at all.
“It’s a muscular injury in the hamstring but we have a normal procedure and wait a few more days. So it’s completely nonsense information.”
