An assist and less than 180 minutes of play in total. Here is the final assessment, in all competitions, of the season of Paul Pogba, who hoped to revive his career by committing last summer to Juventus. It's simple, the midfielder of the Blues lived the worst year of his professional career, taking part in only ten small parts of match with the Turin club. We hoped to launch him for good last week, after his decisive offering for Frederico Gatti (1-1, 90th+7), in the semi-final first leg of the Europa League against Sevilla FC (1-1). But his first start of the season, Sunday against Cremonese (2-0) was short-lived.


🚨 The tears of Paul Pogba who must go out on injury for his first start of the season 😢😩

Di Maria who hastens to console his teammate ♥️

The ordeal continues for the pickaxe... pic.twitter.com/BYhYBNiWsa

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The former Mancunian was indeed again the victim of an injury of the "right femoral muscle of the left thigh", resulting in his replacement in the 23rd minute of play and unavailability between two and three weeks. Suffice to say that the result of these medical examinations carried out on Monday confirms the end of the season of Serie A (and Europa League) for Paul Pogba. It is also hard to imagine Didier Deschamps summoning him for the next gathering of the Blues, with matches against Gibraltar on June 16 and Greece on June 19, during the qualifications for Euro 2024.

"We will look forward to it"

Just after his strike that led to this umpteenth injury, "La Pioche" collapsed to the ground and then left the Turin lawn hiding tears under his jersey. His ordeal in 2022-2023 was first marked by a right knee injury in July, which required surgery in early September and deprived him of the start of the season in Italy as well as the World Cup in Qatar.

Finally unavailable until the end of February, he had to stop a month in March after an injury to the right thigh. His return seemed more convincing for a month, until this new terrible stop. "Paul is now a man with children and he has broad enough shoulders to overcome this muscle injury," said his coach Massimiliano Allegri to support him. When you are absent for a year, it is unfortunately normal that the risk of injury increases. We are sorry and we will look forward to it. »



In this catastrophic season, we can also mention his delay at a meeting of the Juve group on March 8, which deprived him of the 8th leg of the Europa League final the next day against Freiburg (1-0). And above all, there was obviously this senseless Pogba affair, triggered by the publication in August 2022 of the video of his older brother Mathias. He then announced that he wanted to make explosive revelations about Paul. The French international would have been the victim of extortion of funds valued at 13 million euros, between March and July 2022. Either just before the endless cascade of injuries of the international tricolor.

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