Paul Pogba, who will be able to officially play football again in March 2025 after the reduction of his sanction for doping, is heading towards a termination of contract with Juventus. A rumor already sends him to Marseille.
Like a phoenix, Paul Pogba is preparing to rise from his ashes in a few months. However, the rest and the end of his career seemed very compromised at the time when the former French international was not expected to return to a football field before 2027. The fault was a four-year suspension after a positive test for dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). in August 2023.
Except that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) finally decided, last week, to reduce this sanction to 18 months, offering “la Pioche” the prospect of a return from March 2025.
“Finally, the nightmare is over. Following the CAS decision, I can now look forward to the day when I will be able to pursue my dreams again […] I can’t wait to get back on the pitch,” the player reacted in a press release.
Towards a future far from Turin
It remains to be seen where the 2018 world champion, who will be 32 next March, will set down his bags. His adventure in Turin now seems to be written in dotted lines. Asked this weekend about the Frenchman’s future at Juve, coach Thiago Motta used the past tense. “As far as I’m concerned, Paul Pogba was a great player, but he hasn’t played for a long time,” he said.
It must be said that the statistics do not speak in favor of the French midfielder who has not played a full match since March 12, 2022 when he was still wearing the colors of Manchester United.
According to information from The Teamthe Turin management “is already working with the player’s lawyers on a contract termination.”
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Landing on the Canebière?
So, for the past few days, rumors have been rife. One of them took on more importance than the others: that of an arrival at Olympique de Marseille which has already had an impressive transfer window this summer, particularly in midfield with the arrival of Adrien Rabiot.
“He wants to play football, wherever it is, for example why not OM? I’m going to call Mehdi Benatia and tell him that the door is open,” said Patrice Evra at the microphone of RMC Sports. Our colleagues, however, specified this Wednesday that no contact has, to date, been established between Paul Pogba and the Marseille club.
He has a slab, but an incredible slab. It’s a Pogba with fangs who will come back. He misses football a lot. For him, watching the matches, also those of the France team…, he was dejected. I was trying to talk to make him smile because inside he was broken.
Patrice evra (on RMC Sports)
He already dreams of returning to the Blues
If he does not yet have a club for his future, the one who today has 91 caps for the Blues could well see himself adding a few more. Who knows, maybe to reach the symbolic mark of 100 caps? At the end of September, when paying tribute to Antoine Griezmann who announced his international retirement, Paul Pogba did not hide his desire to return to the France team:
My Grizou, it was a pleasure to have played with you, to have worn this jersey and won trophies together. You never know, there might be a comeback, you don’t know. But in any case, many thanks again.
“La Pioche” should make its return to a football field at the end of November. Indeed, he announced that he would participate in an exhibition match of the Kings Cup in which he could cross swords with Blaise Matuidi, John Terry, Roberto Carlos, David Villa or even Michel Owen.
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