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this before the Court of Arbitration for sport. Nico, if Pogba has to serve that four year ban, considering his age, is there any chance we see him playing at the highest level again? Uh I football is a lead in in Europe playing champions League. I’m I’m not too sure. Um, let’s see what the appeal ends up saying. Four years is a death sentence for a career almost when you’re 30. Yeah. Um and not only that, but it’s not only like he’ll be back at 34, he’ll be back at 34 after four years of just being
idle. Um and it’s very strange. I mean, my state at the elite level after, what was it, a one year suspension, two year suspension? Um in the early 90s. But but that was Maradona. Um, I. Pogba. Pogba is very talented as well. He right. Take all the outside things away football perspective. He is. Absolutely. But how much has the outside affected the football I mean listen it’s different I’ve been drug tested I don’t know how it works in Italy in England the Premier League, they can turn up to any time, any place, any day. They
can just turn up. You have to give them location where you’re going to be. I had it, they turn up to my
football, not training day in day out. It’s pretty much a death sentence. Anytime any of his career. What if you’re if you’re on vacation to give them a location. If you’re on vacation with your surety, they’ll they’ll pull up to a before you let them know vacation wise. But they will. They they turn up to my house at 7:00 in the evening, and I had to. The guy followed me into my bathroom, and I had to do the pee and be like, that’s what they do in England. Like there’s no time. And if they turn
up in a location and time that you give them to say, I’ll be most time, I’ll be in the house in the evening and you, you’re not there or you’re in big trouble, he said. He unwillingly took that sample. I’m well, he said he didn’t know willingly take. But the thing is for me is this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this in Italian football, because I’ve never seen anything like this in English football. Because everything is so regimentally done all the supplements, the fitness people give you, it has to go through the club doctor
has to be checked, has to be approved by the world Drug Agency or Doping Agency. And it’s just so stringent. But in Italian football, never knowingly or deliberately taking any supplement knowingly or deliberately and I guess through a Court of Arbitration of sport, you need to prove whether it was not knowingly or deliberately, because, I don’t know, someone can put something in your food right. That’s not the thing is, if you’re taking supplements, clubs let players know anything you’re taking run it through the club doctor. Come and get it checked through before you start taking
anything. That’s the responsibility they give to ingredient in a supplement or in a cocktail of supplements that’s handed to them. It has meaning. It’s not like here, take this one. Illegal substance. It could be. It’s something that’s a part of something else. If you’re taking something they tell you as a player, check with the club doctors. Remember before one of the Gold Cups 2000 and earlier in 2015, we 2011 like a large majority of the Mexican national team, tested positive for clenbuterol and they traced it back to the steak they were eating. Oh, was it
steak? Oh, was it, um, Ochoa was one of them. Correct I don’t remember. Who was it? Maybe. Maybe it was. I don’t remember who it was, but a large portion. But this doesn’t seem like something similar, but I just had this not happened. Where would he be in terms of stature? Saudi in playing wise? No, in terms of like players, you know, like who would we be like putting him in a category with like is he like at the end of his career? Yeah, I think are we talking about him. Still goes down as one
of the greats. He’s like a World Cup winner. That World Cup with him and Kante and that midfield. No one can deny that. That’s probably two. Two of the greatest like midfield parents. You know, you would have to say Pogba is as talented. You could put in that same level as Casimiro Modric. Like those type of players that not Pogba could not. Pogba is one of those modric. No. Let’s be real though. There’s a lot in the media that goes on about his personal life and people pay attention. Oh he’s he’s that. But that’s why
people do that I think that’s I don’t care about it. I think people actually stupid. Do you play. What do you do in the 90 minutes. Talk about that I don’t care if he goes to a club and dances into that man United fans are upset because they saw glimpses of world class and you could say world class by him. Yeah, but he just didn’t do it. Cons
