Paul Pogba, a former midfielder for Manchester United, has been suspended from football for four years due to a failed drug test.
The 30-year-old, a World Cup champion with France, tested positive for doping in August of last year while he was a player for Juventus.
September saw a provisional suspension of him. The results of his August doping test were replicated in a counteranalysis of a B sample, so the Italian anti-doping prosecutor’s office will decide his fate.
It has now been confirmed that he will miss four years of football.
It completes Pogba’s stunning decline from grace, as he was once thought to be among the top midfield players in European football.
Pogba’s Journey
Metro notes Pogba joined United at the age of sixteen, growing through the ranks of the club’s youth academy and making his senior debut two years later. In 2012, he departed the team by declining a new deal to join Juventus.
The player and his agent, Mino Raiola, were accused of “disrespecting” United by Sir Alex Ferguson, the manager of United at the time. Pogba quickly rose to prominence in Turin’s first squad.
He returned to United in 2016 for £90 million, then a world record fee and still the largest transfer expenditure in United’s history, following four Serie A victories.
Pogba was only able to win three major trophies in his second stint at Old Trafford before being released in the summer of 2022, having been signed with the expectation of leading United back to the pinnacle of English and European football.
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Pogba’s injury problems after rejoining Juventus meant that he played just 161 minutes of football in his debut campaign in Italy.
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