French midfielder could be banned from football for up to four years after testing positive for testosterone
And he was hugely talented. It’s easy to forget now just how good he was at Juventus, first under Antonio Conte and then under Max Allegri, usually operating on the left of a midfield three, whether in a 3-5-2 or a 4-3-1-2. It was the perfect role for him. Alongside Andrea Pirlo and Claudio Marchisio or Arturo Vidal, with Patrice Evra or Kwadwo Asamoah overlapping from wing back, he had a certain licence, could make the most of his blend of physical and technical attributes.
There was a sense in which he was a player out-of-time, a box-to-box marauder in the manner of Bryan Robson of Steven Gerrard . That shuttling role in a midfield three was essentially the only one in which he could use all his abilities.
Pogba is, though, far the only player to have stagnated at Manchester United. As Barney Ronay recently put it, the club had become a “meat-grinder” for talent. And then there were the injuries: a persistent ankle problem in 2019-20, then hamstring problems in 2021 and, after his return to Juventus in 2022, knee surgery and a series of muscular problems. Since the summer of 2019, Pogba has started only 51 league games.
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