When the most costly footballer on the planet, France star Paul Pogba has sunk to a new low in the wake of being temporarily suspended for a doping infringement.
Wounds and a strange extortion plot including his own sibling have ruled his second spell at Juventus, and the most recent disclosures came similarly as the midfielder looked prepared to return to his best.
Italy's enemy of doping authority NADO uncovered on Monday that Pogba, who is still just 30, showed raised degrees of testosterone in a test taken after Juve's season-opening win at Udinese, a match in which he didn't play.
Pogba has since been a substitute in Juve's other two Serie A matches and regardless of getting a thigh thump against Empoli prior to this month could well have been highlighted in Saturday's home installation against Lazio had he not been managed the most recent of a progression of disasters for his profession.
The experimental outcome came not long after the arrival of a meeting with Al Jazeera in which he said he needed to make his faultfinders "try to backpedal".
"I need to show them I'm not frail. They can discuss me. I won't ever surrender," he said.
He has just begun one match since getting back to Juve as a free specialist from Manchester Joined in July last year, six years subsequent to leaving the Turin Monsters for a then-world record 105 million euros with four Italian association titles to his name.
It was a move that should have recovered his vocation which had gone flat in Britain, yet he very quickly experienced a serious knee injury in pre-season.
Cash changes individuals
What's more, his underlying choice to not go through a medical procedure in a bid to make the Qatar World Cup ultimately blew up, finishing his possibilities of assisting France with safeguarding their reality title and further entangling his club crusade.
Pogba was a critical figure in the 2018 victory in Russia and scored one of France's objectives in their 4-2 win over Croatia in that year's conclusive, however, he has not been highlighted for his country since a well-disposed success for Les Bleus over South Africa in Spring a year ago.
From being large and in charge Pogba has gradually descended to profundities, desolated by wounds and a troublesome individual life which he concedes has been unfavorably impacted by the huge amounts of cash procured by football's top players.
"Cash changes individuals. It can separate a family. It can make a conflict," he said.
"Here and there I was simply without help from anyone else thinking, 'I would rather not have cash any longer. I simply don't have any desire to play any longer. I simply need to accompany ordinary individuals, so they will cherish me for me - - not for the distinction, not for the cash'."
Pogba talks from an unpleasant experience, as a month in the wake of tearing knee tendons his sibling Mathias delivered a video in which he took steps to uncover mysteries about his genius kin.
French examiners subsequently recounted the way that he was held at firearm point by cherished companions and two hooded men furnished with attack rifles, who bludgeoned him for not aiding them out monetarily and requested 13 million euros.
Pogba wound up paying 100,000 euros of the aggregate and the issue instructed him that "the main individuals who can hurt are individuals who are near you".
"They're the ones who can annihilate you," he told Al Jazeera.
Pogba faces a restless sit-tight for the consequence of his 'B' test, with the phantom of a potential four-year boycott looming over a player whose life has transformed into something of a bad dream.
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