Pogba has been listed as a player with " best top speeds reached during this match week" in the PL before. He has also been listed as one of the fastest players in several Manchester United squads...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/paul-pogba-romelu-lukaku-fastest-11130998
Not that top speed is all that important, acceleration is what matters the most in football. Even slow CBs like Maguire have pretty athletic top speeds. Pogba's mobility (balance, change of pace, agility, jump height) is beyond what Busquets or Rakitic were ever capable of. Fin's assertions are laughable at the very least.
It seems like you two are being hilariously deceived by his strides (which are longer than average, but "look" slow compared to other strides).
That's top speed recorded in a game, and that was during 16/17 season. That's more than 4 years ago
I don't see him in the same list of top speeds recorded the last years in the EPL
Maybe he still has the ability to run fast, but he is not using it.
And that boils down to the real issue:
Even in 16/17 when he recorded the top speed incident you quoted, he was not running with the ball fast often enough, or I should say he was barely doing it.
If that happens because he likes his strides to be long and slow, it's immaterial.
That makes him practically slow even if he *can * run faster, because we care about what happens on the pitch.
If Mpabe was not exercising his ability to run, he would be way worse a player than he is now.
A good indicator of whether a player exercises his running is progressive distance covered in possession.
If you check that stat, Pogba is below par compared to many.
