In the corridors of Carrow Road, fresh from the joys of a rare away victory, it became possible to sense the start of Manchester United moving on from Paul Pogba.



Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is notoriously guarded on injury information, but in addressing media after the Norwich win he willingly put back Pogba’s return date to December when asked about the Frenchman’s injury.



Given that on October 13 Pogba had himself said he was “almost there” in a caption to a video of him exercising with battle ropes out in Dubai, Solskjaer’s latest prognosis was a large leap in timeframe.



“He needs time to fully, fully recover, so I don’t think he’ll be back (until) maybe Sheffield United (Nov 24), after the international break. But probably December before you can see him,” Solskjaer said.



United face Aston Villa on December 1 and if Pogba is indeed unavailable until that date then his total games missed this season...