Paul Pogba EPA-EFE/FRIEDEMANN VOGEL
Former Juventus star Paul Pogba has several options available after leaving the club earlier this season and could continue playing in Europe in the 2025-26 campaign.
The France midfielder officially left the Old Lady in mid-November last year, but his doping ban ended in March so he’s now available as a free agent.
The 2018 France World Cup winner recently sent a message to his Instagram followers, confirming that he’s working hard for his comeback.
“Just a little message, nothing big really. Just somebody who is still hungry for the comeback, been training by itself, but never giving up,” he said in an Instagram story on April 28.
“Chasing his dream and what he wants to achieve. Just a little message for all of you guys that right now, you don’t get what you want, but keep pushing until you get it. It may be tomorrow or in one or two years, but what’s gonna happen is meant to happen, so big up and see you very soon.”
When Pogba returned to Juventus for a second spell in 2022, Italian websites siti scommesse non aams listed the Old Lady among the obvious title contenders for that campaign, but Pogba failed to contribute as he spent a big portion of that campaign on the sidelines due to recurring injuries.
He made only six appearances in 2022-23 and two in the following campaign, failing a doping test in August 2023 after a Serie A match against Udinese, in which he had not been involved.
Pogba is now without a contract and a number of clubs have been linked with securing his services.
Ex-Juventus star Mehdi Benatia, now the sporting director of Marseille, recently opened the door for Pogba for the 2025-26 season.
“He is a player, a man that both President Longoria and I admire,” the former defender said in February.
“We thought about him, we wanted to do it, but did it make sense to bring in a Pogba who was not yet in shape? The risk was to disrupt the team’s balance with a player who wouldn’t be at his best by the end of the season. However, if the opportunity arises, we would be happy to have a player like Pogba who can help us in the next campaign.”
MLS side Inter Miami and Pavel Nedved’s Al-Shabab, a Saudi Pro League team, have also been linked with the ex-Juventus and Manchester United star, who is ready to resume his football career at just 32 years old, after considering retirement due to his doping ban.
“I had many thoughts in my head, I had so many thoughts to even stop playing,” Pogba admitted in October.
“I’m like: ‘What am I going to do?’ If it’s four years, you start making the maths in your head. … Four years not playing, training — which club is going to want me? Would I be fit and stuff like that, you make a lot of pictures in your head.
“But on the other side, I had faith obviously, and I was positive. I knew I didn’t do anything wrong on purpose, so then thankfully that happened and they reduce it.”
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