“If I had taken four years of suspension, I would have stopped football. »» In an interview with the magazine
GqPaul Pogba returns to the complicated period he recently crossed. Between the sequestration of which he was the victim in 2022 and his suspension of eighteen months pronounced after a positive check for testosterone, the French midfielder (32 years old) lived terrible events. But here he is able to replay today. It remains to be seen where.
“First of all, I can't wait to play. You know, it's been so long since I have played footballhe says. I would never have imagined being free at this time of the season. I have never really experienced a transfer like that. ” If he received “Proposals that come from everywhere”the “pick” wants to take its time to choose the right destination and bounce back. With the 2026 World Cup online with the Blues.
“First of all, I have to resume my rhythm. In selection, it is not really the club that counts. André-Pierre Gignac was in the team when he played Mexico. N'Golo Kanté returned while he is in Saudi Arabia. It will depend on me”announces the former player of Juventus Turin, officially released from the contract which linked him to the old lady last November and authorized to resume competition since March.
Paul Pogba: “My wife did not know, either my children”
In this interview, Paul Pogba also evokes the various extortion attempts he has suffered. If the infernal spiral started for him three years ago on the sidelines of a gathering of the French team, she then continued in Manchester. Difficult moments that the native of Lagny-sur-Marne lived alone.
“J'I have everythingof this extortion. My wife did not know, my children either ”tells the ex-star of the Red Devils.
“When I came back from the'enteredÎle, I had to play my Rôle de pera of family and husband. I kept everything for myself. In the end, it gnawed at me ”he continues. It was in order to flee this context that has become too heavy that he left the north of England to return to Italy in the summer of 2022. But his troubles followed him to Turin. “During this period, I did everything to stay focused on football, but it had become too difficult”he explains.
“I had so much worries that I no longer played. And yet I was trying. I knew it was the only way to make me forget these problems. But concretely, football, what represents? Two hours a day? Only two hours in the dayEE to have fun. Whenever it ended, j'triedSay in the locker room, to stay with my teammates. But in the end, you have to go home. ”
