🚨 Official: Paul Pogba signs for a Ligue 1 club!
La Pioche is back!
AS Monaco has officially announced this Saturday the free arrival of Paul Pogba!
The club from the Principality has secured the French World Cup champion for two seasons. At 32, Pogba will thus discover Ligue 1, having left his training club in Le Havre for Manchester United at just 16 years old.
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The midfielder will thus experience the third club of his career, after MU and Juventus, his most recent team.
Pogba has not played an official football match for two years due to his doping suspension. He indeed received a four-year suspension in September 2023 for testing positive for testosterone during a match between Juve and Udinese on August 20, 2023. In October 2024, the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced the French international's suspension from four years to 18 months, recognizing that the doping, through the use of a dietary supplement prescribed by a doctor in the United States, was not intentional.
Free to sign wherever he wanted since last March, Paul Pogba has therefore chosen L1 and AS Monaco to return to the pitch. Just one year away from the 2026 World Cup...
Is the World Cup in the USA the goal for La Pioche?
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