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MANCHESTER. — Paul Pogba has taken a swipe at Jose Mourinho, accusing the former Manchester United manager of casting himself and other players aside with no explanation.

Contrasting Mourinho with current boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the French star also accused the Tottenham manager of using diversion tactics after his side went down 3-1 to United last Sunday.

The midfielder and Mourinho had a rocky relationship towards the end of the manager’s time in charge at Old Trafford.

Pogba was stripped of the United vice-captaincy in September 2018 in front of his team-mates and the pair had a training ground bust-up shortly afterwards that was picked up by TV cameras.

Mourinho was sacked three months later and replaced by Solskjaer, who is aiming to win his first piece of silverware as United boss in the Europa League.

Speaking to Sky Sports, Pogba was scathing in his view of Mourinho, saying: “What I have now with Ole is different, he wouldn’t go against the players. He wouldn’t go against the players.

“Maybe Ole wouldn’t pick them, but it’s not like he puts them on the side like they don’t exist anymore. That’s the difference between Mourinho and Ole.

“Once I had a great relationship with Mourinho, everybody saw that, and the next day you don’t know what happened.

“That’s the strange thing I had with Mourinho and I cannot explain to you because even I don’t know. So, yeah.”

Pogba, who won the League Cup and Europa League during Mourinho’s first season at United before their relationship soured, spoke about the fallout from Sunday’s win at Spurs.

Edinson Cavani saw a first-half opener disallowed by VAR after Scott McTominay made contact with Son Heung-min’s face with a stray arm in the build-up.

Solskjaer criticised Son’s reaction, saying the referee had been “conned”, leading to a heated argument and a war of words with Mourinho.

The Norwegian made the remark that if his own son had gone down as easily “and needs 10 of his mates to help him up, he won’t get any food.”

Mourinho responded: “I just want to say, Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole, because I think a father — I am a father — you have to feed your kids, it doesn’t matter what they do.”

Pogba has suggested Mourinho made the comments because he didn’t want to speak about the defeat. “I don’t know what happened, I’m sure Mourinho said something that would make people speak, that’s what he does,” Pogba said.— Mailonline.