The day after the announcement of Paul Pogba’s positive test, Didier Deschamps expressed his amazement and said he was convinced that he had not knowingly doped. Kingsley Coman stepped up to the plate, giving him his support.
There was a lot of talk about Paul Pogba on Tuesday, following the Blues’ defeat in Germany (2-1). And this time, it was not a question of discussing a potential return of the Turin midfielder, a year and a half after his last appearance with the French team jersey. Because seeing the former Mancunian in the selection appears more and more hypothetical. Consequence of his positive doping test for testosterone carried out on the sidelines of the first match of the season against Udine.
The French world champion can nevertheless always count on the support of Didier Deschamps, who clearly finds it hard to believe it. “I can’t imagine that, knowing him, with everything he has in his head. I still remember certain discussions with him on the vaccine and Covid… The substance is there, but afterwards, unless there is a second opinion… Afterwards, knowing the why and the how, I don’t think that he himself knows it unfortunately. It’s hard for him. I always supported him,” he confided to the microphone of TF1 after the meeting.
And the former midfielder was not the only one to support the native of Lagny-sur-Marne. “We all support Paul, he’s a very close friend, he’s part of the family,” said Kingsley Coman. We don’t really know more, we’ll have to look. But we know Paul, we know that if something happened, it was surely unconsciously, without doing it on purpose. We areand wholeheartedly with him. »
