{"id":1749,"date":"2025-11-21T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:27:35","slug":"paul-pogba-set-for-playing-return-with-monaco-after-doping-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"Paul Pogba set for playing return with Monaco after doping ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We try to help him reach his full potential so that the team comes out on top,&#8221; Monaco manager Sebastien Pocognoli said of Pogba on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has the qualities to adapt to what we want to implement in midfield &#8211; he hasn&#8217;t lost his vision or his technique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[He will bring] experience and leadership, both on and off the pitch, not to mention his qualities, which will need to adapt to the pace of competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pogba was provisionally banned from football for four years after a positive test for dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in February 2024, following a doping test in August 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pogba maintained it was a mistake and that he was given a supplement without knowing it contained a banned substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The France international, a 2018 World Cup winner, was permitted to return to football in March following the decision to reduce his ban. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should Pogba make his Monaco debut against Rennes, it would be his first ever Ligue 1 appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He came through the ranks at Le Havre, but joined Manchester United before making a senior appearance for the club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pogba joined Juventus on a free transfer in 2012, before returning to Old Trafford in a then world record \u00a389m four years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went back to Juventus following the expiry of his six-year deal with United in 2022, but made just 12 appearances before his contract was mutually terminated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pogba scored as France beat Croatia 4-2 in the 2018 World Cup final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We try to help him reach his full potential so that the team comes out on top,&#8221; Monaco manager Sebastien Pocognoli said of Pogba on Friday. &#8220;He has the qualities to adapt to what we want to implement in midfield &#8211; he hasn&#8217;t lost his vision or his technique. &#8220;[He will bring] experience and leadership,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}