In usual circumstances, you shouldn't read too much into what footballers post on their social media accounts. If the posts aren't paid advertising, they are often Fortnite or Call Of Duty related, or even if they're about football they are professionally written by an external social media manager.
"Great result today, lads played well! Fans were brilliant," is a typical sentence you might see on Twitter or Instagram, or maybe not the latter part in the current climate. A series of emojies will regularly follow. It's how the game is played, the sanitised world of social media and club PR.
Paul Pogba's social media accounts, however, have been particularly interesting in recent weeks.
The Manchester United midfielder has always been active on Instagram, but for weeks until his long-awaited return from injury, the club itself was conspicuous by its absence from his posts. Pogba would upload a video of his ankle surgery rehabilitation, a training session for example, but he'd omit to mention United and he wouldn't be wearing United training gear.
Given he didn't play at all for the club between December and June, it's little wonder he became something of a forgotten figure, despite the online activity. Rumours that he was ready to quit Old Trafford for Real Madrid or Juventus gained momentum.
Pogba is clearly a big, but emotional personality. And his buoyant recent mood has been evident to those who like to read between the lines on social media. There are now more mentions of United, more smiles, more pictures from the victories that he is helping to secure for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side and the future suddenly looks a lot brighter for both player and club.
If the six-month injury absence saw Pogba linked consistently with moves away from United, then the past three weeks would appear to give the 27-year-old a long and healthy future at the club.
Yet the moment that captured Pogba's mood change better than anything posted on his own official channels came from another source - Odion Ighalo - and it wasn't watered down or sanitised in any way. It reflected how Pogba is feeling better than anything he or United's media team could have posted.
The video showed simply the United dressing room following their 5-2 win over Bournemouth on Saturday, with Ighalo smiling, before the camera pans to Daniel James and Fred, who are both looking relaxed. Pogba then comes into shot, dancing merrily and enjoying a joke with Ighalo.
Even Pogba's harshest critics would struggle to deny him this moment of enjoyment, celebrating after playing a pivotal role in another win which took United's unbeaten run to 16 matches.
Everything that Solskjaer said during the period in which Pogba was most fiercely linked with an exit is now proving true. "Paul is happy... Paul is focussed on United." It's just that he needed to play, and to play in a high-performing side.
Solskjaer admitted after United's Bournemouth victory that his squad is brimming full of options at the moment, making it difficult to leave out the likes of Fred and Scott McTominay in midfield.
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"I've got many reasons to play them but it's also difficult to leave players out that have done so well, they know they're a big part of the team that's been getting up the table and getting better performances," the United boss said.
"It's a squad game but this 11 played really well last time against Brighton and there's no problems, everyone is 100 per cent now."
Pogba is clearly fit, firing and fully motivated. This one moment showed how Solskjaer and United finally have what they've been craving for a long time.
