The Old Lady Speaks Podcast, Episode 258: The Pogba 2.0 era is officially over at Juventus
Yesterday at 06:30 AM
The expected has finally happened, as Juventus announced that they have agreed to part ways with Paul Pogba by mutual consent in the aftermath of his doping suspension being reduced from four years to 18 months.
There's usually two versions of an international break for club football fans.
The first is one you want — where there's absolutely zero news or things to worry about after a week or so of international competition, giving you the relief that players will come back to their club without any issues. Then there's the international break like Juventus just had where there is actually news — both expected and, well, that in which it is not at all — that suddenly has you wondering why the heck these things are necessary.
The first half of the November international break was very much a news-y kind of one for Juventus, with the headline being the end of the road for one of the club's biggest names — for good and for not-so-good reasons — over the last decade. The second Paul Pogba era in Turin is now something we can refer to in the past tense, and it's safe to say it ended in about as quiet of a way as anybody could have imagined.
Nobody wanted to see it come to this, but the final line in Pogba's Juventus career is very much no surprise to anybody who has been paying attention to things ever since he first failed a doping test a little over a year ago.
On Episode 258 of The Old Lady Speaks Podcast, we discuss:
- The Friday news dump we all expected at some point: Juventus and Paul Pogba have agree to mutually terminate his contract after his doping suspension was reduced from four years to 18 months.
- Before the Pogba news dropped, Juventus got more bad news on the injury front, with fullback Juan Cabal suffering a torn ACL on international duty with Colombia.
- Juventus' first game out of the international break is the second trip to San Siro in a little over a month, as Thiago Motta's squad will look to take the momentum of two straight wins into the final stretch of the 2024 calendar year.
- Questions for the crew — including what our fondest memories of Pogba at Juventus, what the long-term vision for young midfielders like Nicolo Fagioli and Fabio Miretti might be, what's stopping Dusan Vlahovic from having a bigger impact at Juventus and what would be the preferred January transfers be.
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