What would you get Paul Pogba for his 28th birthday?
What does Paul Pogba want?
What do any of us want for Paul Pogba?
What, if anything, is going to happen next?
As ever with the Manchester United midfielder and World Cup winner, the questions are outnumbering everything that even comes close to resembling an answer at the moment, although Pogba is at least close to seeing one birthday wish come true.
The Frenchman was absent for United's 1-0 win over West Ham on Sunday night as he continues to be sidelined with a thigh injury, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer namechecked him on a list of five players who are in line to return for Thursday's Europa League second leg against AC Milan at the San Siro, saying Pogba "might make the trip".
He might make the trip. The trip to Italy. Pogba might be going to Italy.
Sometimes the next 100 or so words write themselves, and with Pogba still being strongly linked with a move back to Juventus this summer, this is indeed one of those times.
Although you won't find Mino Raiola shouting about it. So ssshhh.
“Paul Pogba to Juventus?" he said last month.
"I can’t speak about Pogba because people are nervous, they don’t sleep at night.
He then added, clearly unconcerned about slumber patterns, "I have to work quietly… if I speak, someone gets offended.”
That someone was either Solskjaer or Ed Woodward, or probably both, with the pair left exasperated by Raiola's decision to go public with Pogba's apparent wish to leave United on the eve of the must-not-lose Champions League group stage game at RB Leipzig.
United then lost.
Pogba did his best to repair relations after that as Raiola rowed back on some of his more inflammatory comments - that it was "over" for his client at the club being chief among them - but it had seemed as though the damage was done.
And then it was sort of undone.
Pogba, who had forced the Ibrahima Konate own goal that gave United brief hope of qualification at Leipzig, was in the team and was playing well, registering a glorious assist for Anthony Martial at Sheffield United before Christmas, winning a crucial penalty at home to Aston Villa and then scoring two winners in a week at Burnley and Fulham, the latter brilliantly.
Surely if he wanted to leave then he wouldn't be playing this well, as United hit the top of the table by mid-January and hopes of a title surge were very real for a couple of weeks at least.
Pogba was seen as vital to those hopes, with Gary Neville even going as far as to say that title hopes rested at his talented feet.
"The slim chance they have to win this league will depend on something like Paul Pogba delivering a cameo of two or three months of brilliance, which he is capable of," Neville told Sky Sports.
"He's got confidence, he's got arrogance - good arrogance, in a sense that he believes in himself.
"He thinks he should be playing in the biggest games in the world, and winning titles, and thinking positive thoughts, thinking you're the best is a big thing when you're looking to win."
Knowing you're injured is not though.
The Frenchman made it to February and the first half of the clash with Everton before his thigh gave way, and we haven't seen him since.
United haven't lost a game without him and have achieved great results, but they have also served up dour performances that were crying out for more creation from midfield, the goalless draws at Chelsea and Crystal Palace in particular.
Pogba's injury hasn't swayed the direction of the title race as Manchester City have been in dominant form, but what it has done is give Solskjaer more evidence of what his team looks like without him.
While the growth of Scott McTominay - a player who has looked every inch the equal of the much-touted and talented Declan Rice when he's faced him recently - should be protected, it is also clear that United could do with another central midfielder as Nemanja Matic continues to creak and Fred never quite convinces. Well there is Donny van de Beek but the less said about him the better.
Pogba's return to the fold should be welcomed then, and it will be given the quality of the player.
But you can't help but think that Solskjaer is already planning for life without him, as that contract ticks down to the final year.
Pogba is 28 now, and in his prime.
The questions that surround him really shouldn't be as numerous as they often are.
The answer for him and United surely lies in a change, and soon.
