Paul Pogba in talks over ending Juventus contract after doping ban reduced

Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is poised to permission Juventus, conscionable days aft it was confirmed his four-year doping prohibition would beryllium reduced to 18 months pursuing an appeal

Paul Pogba is expected to teardrop up his declaration with Juventus up of a instrumentality to shot successful the New Year.

The erstwhile Manchester United midfielder, 31, was provisionally suspended past September aft failing a drugs test. He was subsequently slapped with a four-year prohibition successful February, throwing his vocation into doubt.

Pogba tested affirmative for DHEA: a banned substance that boosts testosterone. The subordinate and his campy person maintained that immoderate banned substance was taken unintentionally - and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) person present acted pursuing an appeal.

Pogba's four-year prohibition has been reduced importantly to 18 months, meaning the France planetary - who past played successful September 2023 - is escaped to instrumentality to grooming successful January and competitory shot successful March.

It seems highly improbable it volition beryllium with Juventus, though. Pogba returned for a 2nd spell with the Italian giants aft moving down his declaration astatine Old Trafford but had been plagued by injuries anterior to his doping ban.

Juventus were expected to terminate Pogba's woody if his archetypal four-year prohibition was upheld. However, The Mail assertion the 2 parties are inactive successful talks to teardrop up Pogba's contract, with the subordinate himself keen connected the thought of a caller commencement pursuing a tumultuous year.

While it remains to beryllium seen wherever helium volition extremity up, Pogba is determined to resume his career, which would person been each but implicit had the four-year prohibition stood.

Pogba reacted to the CAS determination with an affectional connection connected Friday, wherever helium referenced the "nightmare" helium had been through. It read: "Finally the nightmare is over.

"Following the determination by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, I tin look guardant to the time erstwhile I tin travel my dreams again. I ever stated that I ne'er knowingly breached World Anti-Doping Agency regulations erstwhile I took a nutritional supplement prescribed to maine by a doctor, which does not impact oregon heighten the show of antheral athletes.

"I play with integrity, and though I indispensable judge that this is simply a strict liability offence, I privation to spot connected grounds my acknowledgment to the Court of Arbitration for Sport's judges who heard my explanation.

"This has been a hugely distressing play successful my beingness due to the fact that everything I person worked truthful hard for has been enactment connected hold.

"Thank you again for each the emotion and support. I conscionable cannot hold to get backmost connected the pitch."

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