Paul Pogba ready to ‘give up money’ to play football for Juventus again

The midfielder wants to beryllium portion of France’s squad for the FIFA World Cup 2026 but says the determination volition beryllium up to manager Didier Deschamps.

Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba is anxious to instrumentality to shot aft having his doping prohibition reduced from 4 years to 18 months and said helium dreams of playing astatine the 2026 World Cup with France.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) chopped the 31-year-old’s prohibition earlier this period aft helium was provisionally suspended by Italy’s National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO Italia) successful September 2023 pursuing a affirmative trial for DHEA, a banned substance that boosts testosterone levels.

Pogba, who appealed to CAS arguing his ingestion of DHEA was not intentional, volition beryllium eligible to instrumentality to play for Juventus successful March – and helium said helium was stronger, wiser and adjacent consenting to instrumentality a wage chopped to play for the Italian club.

“I americium acceptable to instrumentality to mean successful 2025. I lone person 1 desire, to play football. The world is that I americium a Juve subordinate and I americium preparing to play for Juve,” Pogba told Italian paper La Gazzetta dello Sport connected Wednesday.

“I don’t person to speak, the transportation volition talk and past [coach] Thiago Motta volition justice with his ain eyes, based connected what helium sees. I’m acceptable to springiness up adjacent wealth to play for Juve again. I privation to travel back,” the player, who has a declaration with Juventus until June 2026, added.

Pogba, who past played for Juventus implicit a twelvemonth agone successful a 2-0 triumph astatine Empoli, said that getting the archetypal prohibition was the astir hard infinitesimal of his career.

“It was a precise hard twelvemonth and what wounded the astir was spending each time extracurricular the stadium and (Juventus’s grooming centre) Continassa taking my children to schoolhouse without being capable to spell wrong to bid oregon play for Juventus.

“Many past and existent teammates person ever supported me. [Juan] Cuadrado called maine each different time and ever made maine laugh.”

Pogba added that arsenic good arsenic getting backmost to his champion for the Serie A side, helium besides wants to instrumentality to Didier Deschamps’ France squad successful clip for the 2026 World Cup successful the United States, Mexico and Canada.

“The imagination of the World Cup is there, but Deschamps hasn’t opened the doors for anyone. It’s up to maine to unfastened them helium told maine to work,” the midfielder said.

Pogba’s declaration with the Italian giants expires successful June 2026 and is presently worthy 8 cardinal euros ($8.684 million) a year.

During his ongoing suspension, the midfielder receives lone the minimum wage stipulated successful the Serie A corporate statement – conscionable implicit 2,000 euros ($2,170) a month.