While he hardly played last season, Paul Pogba can count on the support of Didier Deschamps.
Paul Pogba has had a particularly complicated last twelve months. The fault of a knee injury, in the summer of 2022, which earned him a very long absence, notably causing him to miss the World Cup in Qatar.
And if he seems fully recovered as the new season started, the former Mancunian remained on the bench last weekend for Juventus Turin’s inaugural match on the lawn of Udinese.
The return of the native of Lagny-sur-Marne to the France team is therefore not on the agenda, but Didier Deschamps has maintained contact with his player. “Yes (he is still a player for the France team), potentially yes, but he is coming out of such a complicated year, with his injuries, his extra-sporting problems. He must find all his means. I discuss with him, of course, but in his recovery, there is an incompressible time: he has to chain the training sessions, then the comings into play, then the matches, and that his body resists, indicated Didier Deschamps in the columns of The Team. I want Paul in the France team if it’s Paul. But I think he can come back, he has the mind, the skills. »
