While he still remains without a club, Paul Pogba has just spoke. A few weeks after the official end of its suspension for doping, the former Juventus community gave an interview to GQ France. A long -awaited outing. Since his exclusion from land, everyone has wondered: what does he really think? And above all, what does he prepare? By delivering his truths, Pogba reopens a book that many thought closed. But which ones?
It is at the bend of a sentence that Pogba lets go one of his most poignant confessions: “I lost my hair because of depression. ”
A brutal, almost confusing statement, about his return to Manchester United. The player admits that he was not even aware of this evil that gnawed at him. He also evokes his life in Turin, the weight of distance, the desire to flee. And, behind all this, silence, loneliness and a career that escapes him.
The pogba that we do not know: overwhelming confessions
Pogba does not abandon the episode that tipped his destiny: his suspension for doping. He says he is misunderstood, says that we don't have him “Not listened to”, And says he is shocked by the severity of the sanction. For him, it is as if we had ignored his version. He even confesses to having planned to stop football. A pogba on edge, which reveals the flaws of a man that football has long brought to the top.
“I almost stopped”: the cry of the heart of Paul Pogba
Difficult for Pogba not to talk about the affair that upset his private life: the attempted extortion he was the victim, involving his own brother. A wound still open. He admits having hidden everything from his loved ones, until they suffer physically. “I played the father and the husband, but inside, I was collapsing.” These words, raw, tell a pogba that tried to hold, but which has slowly broke.
Today, Pogba wants to believe in a new stage. He says he receives offers, says he is ready to resume everything. He wants to become again “Le Petit Paul de Roissy-en-Brie”, The one who dreamed of marking the world. But the hour is running. The image of the 2018 crack is far away. The challenge is immense, but Pogba is ready to raise his head. It remains to be seen where and with whom he will decide to rewrite his story.
