Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Paul Pogba has assured him he is fully committed to Manchester United after face-to-face talks with the France midfielder over his future amid interest from Real Madrid.

Pogba claimed last month that it would be a “dream” to join Real and that he could not be certain what the future holds at Old Trafford at the same time as talking up the Spanish club’s coach, Zinedine Zidane.

Zidane responded to Pogba’s admission by saying he liked the player “a lot” and that he could see his compatriot at Real one day.

Pogba cut a distracted figure during a dismal performance in Saturday’s unconvincing 2-1 win over Watford and Real have form for unsettling prospective transfer targets through the media.

Sir Alex Ferguson, the former United manager, famously branded them a “mob” to whom he “would not sell a virus” after being angered by their public courtship of Cristiano Ronaldo before the Portugal forward’s eventual move to the Bernabeu in 2009.