Juventus manager, Massimiliano Allegri has come out to react to Paul Pogba’s four-year sporting ban for doping offences. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he is very sorry for Pogba’s current predicament, and it is clear that football is losing an extraordinary and difficult-to-find player.
Allegri added that he is grateful to have had the pleasure of managing the French midfielder at club level.
His words, “I wrote him a message two days ago. On a human level, I’m very sorry, but also from a footballing point of view. This sport is losing an extraordinary and difficult-to-find player who I had the pleasure of coaching. On top of that, Paul is also a very good person.”
France manager, Deschamps added, “I don’t imagine for a single moment that Paul had the intention, the desire, to take drugs. Knowing him well, I know that this is not at all in his state of mind.
Just like the judgement announced by the Italian anti-doping tribunal on Thursday, what Paul has experienced these past months has been extremely difficult and I can’t be insensitive to his pain, given what he has done with the national team and the relationships that have been formed with the France national team. His situation saddens me and I really hope that things will work out… The presence of an illegal hormone is incontestable.”
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