Paul Pogba is adamant that he needs to return from his lowered doping ban with Juventus even when it means accepting a pay lower, the French World Cup winner instructed La Gazzetta dello Sport in an interview Wednesday. “I am prepared to surrender cash to have the ability to play once more with Juve, I need to come again with this membership,” stated Pogba in an interview printed on the Italian sports activities every day’s web site. “The truth is that I’m a Juve participant and I’m getting ready to play for Juve.” Pogba’s contract with the Italian giants expires in June 2026 and is at present price eight million euros ($8.684 million) a yr.

Throughout his ongoing suspension, the midfielder receives solely the minimal wage stipulated within the Serie A collective settlement — simply over €2,000 a month.

Nevertheless, since Pogba’s ban was lowered, Italian press have reported that Juventus are nonetheless looking for to terminate his contract.

“It is going to be a brand new Pogba, a hungrier, wiser and stronger one… I simply need to play soccer,” added the previous Manchester United star.

“I need to be prepared to coach and play for Juve, I am a Juve participant, in my thoughts, that is all there may be for the time being.”

Pogba had his four-year ban for doping lowered to 18 months earlier in October by the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and may return to motion from March 11 subsequent yr, 4 days earlier than his thirty second birthday.

Pogba examined optimistic for testosterone in August 2023 after a match between Juventus and Udinese in Italy. 

He was provisionally suspended in September of the identical yr, after which banned for 4 years by the Italian Nationwide Anti-Doping Tribunal the next February.

Pogba’s representatives stated the testosterone got here from a meals complement prescribed by a physician he consulted in the USA.

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