Former France midfielder Claude Makelele believes Paul Pogba’s goal celebrations are ‘disrespectful’.
Pogba, named in our team of the week again, was dancing twice on Sunday after netting the opening two goals in Manchester United’s win over Bournemouth.
Ex-Chelsea star Makelele isn’t a fan of his compatriot’s attention-grabbing celebrations.
He told Astro SuperSport: “One example is Thierry Henry. When he scored a goal before, everybody was like, ‘F*****g hell, many goals, he’s never happy’.
“One day I tell Thierry, ‘Why?’. He said, ‘It’s the way I celebrate my goal. I know people don’t like this, but I’m like this. I can’t change this.’
“Pogba, he’s like this, he can’t change this. We accept this – it’s Pogba.
“For me, it means sometimes you don’t respect your opponent, you know?
“It’s frustrating. I’m fronting Pogba. I want to tell him, ‘Listen, do this in the dressing room, not now. It’s frustrating. You win 4-0, you’re dancing in front of me.”
Dave Kitson agreed with Makelele and the former Stoke striker suggested Pogba was risking injury by provoking his opponents.
“I think to protect himself as well. If you antagonise an opponent, you know, who’s perhaps having a bad game, and all he’s got left is a tackle on you, and he sees you do that…
“You do that and antagonise people, you open yourself up on the pitch for someone to say, ‘Right, I’m not having that’. And there are a lot of players out there like that.
“This is the modern age, there’s social media – the football and the brand. When I played it was just the football. I understand it, but it’s alien to me. I don’t really kind of get it.
“It’ll get thrown back at him eventually because they’ll lose a big game and it’ll be like, dance now then. You open yourself up, unnecessarily, I think.”