Pogba to AS Monaco: Doping Suspension Over | Liberation

Find the grounds to put the extra-sporting problems behind him. Paul Pogba was committed this Saturday, June 29 for two years with AS Monaco. The 2018 world champion hopes to relaunch a career for three years, the fault of injuries, a sequestration case of which he was the victim and a suspension for doping.

Announced for several days, the information has been formalized by AS Monaco at the end of the afternoon, via a short video that shows a pickaxe (the tool is also the nickname of the player) overlooking the Turbie training center. On another video, we see the 32 -year -old crying player when signing his contract, under the eyes of the sports director Thiago Scuro. He will be presented to the press on July 3 with the other recruits Eric Dier and Ansu Fati.

Framework of the Blues World Champions in 2018, whose solidity he embodied in the midfield, Pogba (91 selections) will evolve for the first time in L1. Trained in Le Havre, he had indeed joined from the age of 16 Manchester United before alternating between 2011 and 2024 the passages within the Mancunian club and the Juventus Turin.

His last match, played with the Italian club, dates back to the end of the summer of 2023. The French international had at the time been suspended for four years after a positive control to the non-endogenous metabolites of testosterone (DHEA) at the end of the match against Udinese on August 20, 2023. The sanction had finally been reduced to eighteen months by the Sports Arbitral Tribunal (TAS) substance “Was not intentional and resulted in a food supplement prescribed by a doctor in Florida”. Since March 2025 and the end of his suspension, Pogba was authorized to replay, but he was without a club after the termination of his contract with Juventus in November 2024.

At the end of April of the American media had announced that he was in negotiations with the DC United in Washington, Major League Soccer club. His name had also been regularly associated with Olympique de Marseille. It was finally in another Ligue 1 club, Monaco, third in the last championship and qualified for the Champions League, that the midfielder will try to bounce back.

The bet is noted. Because in addition to his suspension for doping, in the past three years have been a long tunnel for the Frenchman, regularly injured and very morally affected by the extortion and sequestration affair of which he was the victim and for which his brother Mathias and five of his childhood friends were sentenced at the end of 2024 to sentences of up to eight years in prison. “I can finally turn the page on this extremely painful period. Now that the judgment has been rendered, I can fully focus on my return to professional football ”had he wrote to AFP after the decision.

The new chapter that opens is surrounded by many questions about the physical form of French. Installed in Miami, in recent weeks he has multiplied the photos and videos of intensive training on his social networks in recent weeks. But his last real full season dates back to 2021-2022. During this exercise, he had played 34 games with Manchester United.

In Monaco, Pogba will also continue to find the Blues to participate in the 2026 World Cup in North America. He will be able to follow the entire physical and technical preparation of AS Monaco, which resumed training on Saturday, six weeks before the start of Ligue 1, scheduled during the weekend of August 15.

On Ligue 1 lawns, the middle will come across several of its former teammates in the France team. He will notably find Olivier Giroud who, after many years of exile abroad and a last freelance in the United States, should start soon with Lille and find France.