Graeme Souness continues to debate Paul Pogba, asserting that the French midfielder’s decline started after his World Cup victory, regardless of Pogba not being within the Premier League.
Souness overtly expressed his views on Paul Pogba throughout the midfielder’s six years at Manchester United. Pogba, the £89.3m signing, had an inconsistent tenure in his second spell with the membership, in the end departing to Juventus on a free switch in the summertime of 2022.
Accidents hampered the 30-year-old’s participation at Juventus, and he was sidelined throughout the 2022 World Cup as France reached the ultimate. The midfielder, who had solely performed twice within the present season, confronted one other setback when he failed a drug check.
Graeme Souness is engaged in analysing the place issues went down hill for Paul Pogba, one in every of his common topics of criticism, although in his interview with talkSPORT there appears to be a level of sympathy for the participant from the Scotsman.
“He had the gear to be the very best midfielder on the planet,” the 70-year-old acknowledged.
“The worst factor that occurred to him was successful a World Cup, as a result of he may flip and say, ‘I’m a World Cup winner’. I feel at that time, it was him going backwards.”
The Frenchman is presently going through a four-year ban because of failed drug assessments.