The revelation that Paul Pogba is in line for a Manchester United return against Rochdale takes Brian Barry-Murphy back eight years to Tameside Stadium. Five days before an 18-year-old Pogba cameoed in his professional debut at Leeds, he had to navigate a Manchester Senior Cup tie against Rochdale at Curzon Ashton’s open ground. “I thought he was the best player I ever played against,” Barry-Murphy, now manager of Rochdale, reminisces. “Scholesy was in his first spell [coaching]. He was pretty demanding of Pogba. “It was in the middle of the contract issue and I remember there was a lot of talk about the agent, Raiola, and he was in the development teams and I was coaching our young lads. “He was just on another planet. I remember there was a lot of talk that he wasn’t going to play for their first-team and they were going to move him, but it was common knowledge up here about who he was and what he was doing. “And when I saw him, it was like ‘oh my god!’ He was the only midfield player of that kind who could do what he could do. I never saw anything like it.” William Keane…