New Monegasque recruit, the 2018 world champion expressed his joy at discovering Ligue 1 to relaunch his career.
“The Pioche” finds a smile. Recruit star of AS Monaco for the next two seasons, Paul Pogba spoke for the first time since his transfer, in shared videos this Sunday by the Principality club. Happy to find “and little sun, a little sweetness in this world of brutes ”, The 2018 world champion does not hide his impatience at the idea of finding the grounds.
An impatience mixed with a touch of stress, the Frenchman who has not played an official match since September 2023. “Despite the experience, as long as I did not put the jersey, the shorts … my hands are very dumb! It’s a positive stress, it’s like you had signed aspiring, you leave your family to go to the training center. That’s a bit what I felt“Explains the man who comes out of a suspension for 18 months doping.
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The former Juventus Turin player, very moved when signing his contract, is aware that he leaves from afar and his first objective in the Monegasque jersey will be simple. “”Resume, find this feeling of soccer fields. Afterwards, I have to come back in shape as best as possible to help the team. I can’t wait to be with the group, to replay, to really find the grounds ”, he explains.
Despite its status as a French international (91 selections, 11 goals), offshore CV and the world famous, Pogba considers itself “howeverabove person here». «I feel good, the head is positive, I am super determinedHe sums up on his state of mind.
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The new Monegasque recruit, part of the age of 16 at Manchester United, will discover sixteen years later Ligue 1, a championship that he has “always respected.» «Coming to play in this championship is a pleasure, an honor for me ”, says the native of Lagny-sur-Marne. In a month and a half (weekend of August 17), AS Monaco will start the new season with the reception of Le Havre at the Louis-II stadium.
Monaco, a “very good group” with “a lot of talent”
The time, by then, to gain momentum for Paul Pogba within a “very good groupPlayers. The tricolor midfielder sees it “a lot of talent with Eric (Dier, free arrival from Bayern Munich) Who came, Captain Denis (Zakaria)…“, In line with this”historic club»French football.
«There has always been talent here. The young Pat (Evra)Thierry Henry, Yaya Touré, Jérôme Rothen, Adebayor, Trezegoal (David Trezeguet)Bernardo Silva, Thomas Lemar, Gallardo, Giuly, Morientes, Djorkaeff, Marco Simone, Fabien Barthez, there are some who have passed here! ”, Recalls “the draw”. “”Didier Deschamps too … “, Who will carefully follow the next performances of his ex-protection among the Blues, by the 2026 World Cup …
