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‘Fernandes has given Pogba a new lease of life’ – Man Utd star needed to share burden, says Ferdinand

Bruno Fernandes has given Paul Pogba “a new lease of life” at Manchester United, claims Rio Ferdinand, with a World Cup winner now able to share the burden of creative responsibility.

The Red Devils brought a France international back to Old Trafford in the summer of 2016 in the hope of seeing him become a talismanic presence.

Pogba has, however, endured struggles for form and fitness across a second spell in England, with the heights he was expected to scale proving to be out of reach.

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