Pogba signs for Monaco, hoping to revive career

Paul Pogba has signed a two-year type out Ligue 1 side Monaco to come to soccer after a reach two-year absence, the club launched on Saturday.

The 2018 World Cup winner has made most effective 12 appearances within the direction of the last three seasons due to the injuries, an 18-month doping ban and an extortion case wherein he used to be the sufferer.
Pogba failed a medicines test in August 2023 after a match for Juventus and has been free to come to soccer since March, even though his contract at the Italian giants had been terminated last year.

The midfielder will now play club soccer in Ligue 1 for the first time in his expert profession.

“I'm sure to earn relief on the pitch, mentally ready, bodily ready, it’s right a topic of time,” the 32-year-used actually helpful French tv last weekend.
Pogba performed within the Le Havre early life group sooner than signing for Manchester United in 2009.
He made most effective a handful of first-group appearances for the three-time European champions sooner than signing for Juventus in 2012.

Pogba received four consecutive Serie A titles in Turin sooner than rejoining United for a then-world file 105 million euros ($123 million).

He moved relief to Juventus three years within the past but struggled with a sequence of injuries.
In 2024, his brother Mathias used to be sentenced to three years in penal advanced, with two years suspended, for his feature in a build aside of abode to extort 13 million euros from Pogba in 2022.

Pogba has scored 11 targets in 91 appearances for the France national group, playing a starring feature and scoring of their World Cup final victory over Croatia seven years within the past.
His contemporary club Monaco will play within the Champions League next season after ending third in Ligue 1 last term.