Pogba & Juventus: a rollercoaster 12 months
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic's Italian writer James Horncastle to discuss a chaotic 12 months at Juventus including the news that Paul Pogba has been provisionally suspended after failing an anti-doping test & club legend Leonardo Bonucci is taking legal action against his former club.
So what next for Paul Pogba, who has also had a difficult year both on and off the pitch? And, despite it all, can Juve bounce back this year?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:04.2 | Hell hath no fury like an old lady scorned. |
| 0:07.4 | After a chaotic 12 months, Juventus have had an impressive start to the season. |
| 0:12.4 | Then came the news yesterday that Paul Pogba had been provisionally suspended after failing an anti-doping test. |
| 0:19.2 | So what next for Paul Pogpah, who has had a difficult year both on and off the pitch? |
| 0:23.5 | And despite it all, can Juventus bounce back this year? |
| 0:27.8 | I'm Ayahuakim Alere. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | Campiano delivers Rabios waiting and Rabios scores Juventus is third. |
| 0:41.4 | And it's another lovely Piancornery move. |
| 0:53.1 | Right, let's get into this. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm joined by the Athletics Italian football writer James Horncastle, who's also written about |
| 1:00.4 | Pogpah. |
| 1:01.3 | I mean, it looks like you haven't had much sleep with the looks of it, James. |
| 1:03.7 | You're all right. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, I've had about three coffees this morning, so yeah, bouncing through the doors into the studio. But yeah, it's been a hectic 24 |
| 1:13.3 | hours, you know. I was talking to my editor yesterday morning and it was like, okay, there's not really |
| 1:18.6 | much going on until Tuesday night when Italy play Ukraine in their Euro qualifier. And then all of a |
| 1:24.5 | sudden out of nowhere comes this, this poor pogpa so yeah it's a big |
| 1:30.1 | story because certainly when it comes to anti-doping tests very high-profile name pogba yeah even |
| 1:38.4 | looking back at the past with you know sort of married on a pep guadiola and people like that |
| 1:43.3 | yeah pogba certainly is is one of the most high profile. Okay, well, I tell you what, we want to dig deep into this in just a second, but let's talk about Juventus, because we sort of started on that, really. The last 12 months have been quite interesting for this club. 12 months? I mean, the last decade has been really interesting for Juventus and especially around financial issues as well. |
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