How Paul Pogba was banned from football

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The career of Paul Pogba, once the most expensive player in football history, is in ruins.
Pogba has been given a four-year ban for doping. It is an unprecedented sanction for a player of his stature. It is also incredibly rare in football.
So, what actually happened? And what could happen next?
Written by Nick Harris and Seb Stafford-Bloor, illustrated by Philippe Fenner.
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#Pogba #Juventus #France

[@noursleiman1306]

I would never have looked at his perfomances in a United shirt and thought "hmm, he's definitely taking PEDs"

[@davidlean1060]

lol that's a damn good point! As the song title goes, the drugs (clearly) don't work!

[@manusuarez3640]

This one gave me a good laugh

[@pforparody9282]

This alone should be his argument to come out of the ban. Lawyer: judge, my client doesn't take peds, have you seen his performance for united and juventus? Judge: yeah, you're right, case dismissed.

[@cx3929]

Always the victim. People like Pogba, Martial and Lingard.

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

To me if anything he looked like he smoked a blunt before the games started.

[@giteausuperstar]

It seems impossible to me that Abel Xavier is the only premier league player to be caught taking banned substances. There must be cover ups all the time.

[@iamthemanwithnoname6140]

Rio Ferdinand was caught but was technically banned for evading tests. Still a drugs cheat.

[@Rrw2ko]

Sakho was banned from football by UEFA in April 2016 when he was playing for Liverpool for substance misuse due to an allegation made by WADA. However, further investigation revealed that the substance Sakho used was not included on WADA's prohibited list and UEFA cleared Sakho's name. In 2020, Sakho and his lawyer decided to file a lawsuit against WADA both for defamation and for immaterial loss as he missed UEFA Europa League Final 2016 between Sevilla and Liverpool due to suspension, and Sakho won the lawsuit.

[@W0oDy97]

Was Jake Livermore not PL at the time?

[@SonOfAurelius-vd6bs]

Happens all the time just UK anti-doping do not release to the media as per request from the FA who fund them.

[@WILLtTHOMPSON2906]

​@@iamthemanwithnoname6140 That's not technically being caught

[@soso-V12]

He rejoined Juve in 2022, not in 2020

[@thevictormahachi]

I came to the comment section just to type that but you got it done already ahaha

[@flyingaviator8158]

Tifo does so many mistakes latly its crazy

[@luisridez9219]

You'll be ok

[@user-vc1bn1ex5g]

I remember when United bought him back people said he was Ferguson's biggest mistake, but now it seems Fergie was always right to sell him. Respect to Pogba though, on his day he was a treat to watch.

[@adrianseanheidmann4559]

respect for playing fairly good football? Why?

[@koll]

He didn't want to sell him. Pogba forced the move because he felt he wasn't being played enough.

[@RichO1701e]

He left UTD on a free, he wasn't sold.

[@TheAshuV]

He should have never left Juve , that juve was made around him and dybala

[@seb2750]

Waiting for Souness to enter chat

[@MALITH666]

He's at Mourinho's throwing a party. 😃🎉🎉🎉😂

[@aneledumse7965]

He's definitely somewhere celebrating this. He will probably blame Pogba's ban for United's next shambolic performance

[@Viewer41]

He was right though about Pogba. Yet people are still joking about it as if he was wrong! 🤦‍♂️

[@AemondBlackKiller]

Because souness is a 3X champions league champions pogba is a dancing meme only liked by casual Muslimss

[@wilseph1]

I pleeeyed the geeeyme!

[@beachgaara]

No one can convince me Juve didn't chuck him under the bus to get out of his deal.

[@2200detsortehul]

most players being done for doping are playing in Italy, so it wouldn't surprise me

[@somethinglikethat2176]

Never let a crisis go to waste

[@mullenio4200]

Always some who try hard to work a conspiracy theory in when the more likely truth is what's actually being reported.

[@otto_jk]

He was easily Juve's best player when he was fit, a complete game changer

[@gbone1619]

Pogba was the most over rated player ive ever seen. For his level of technique he had the worst decision making of all time. The lad could get by anyone and has great range of passing. But he spent most of his career dribbling dangerously in his own half causing as many goals and he created. Putting in wild challenges box. When he lost the ball he would stand there and cry and not track back. He played well once every three games. If theres no kante and matuidi or vidal and pirlo to do literally all of real work for him he wont be functional. He would be injured and posting videos playing basketball in dubai. Lazy and foolish player with amazing ability sad to see.

[@DavidJohnson-dc8lu]

Some believe he was stitched up so Juve can get out of paying him. Easy to give a player who keeps on getting injured steriods in his recovery, then bump him off.

[@nettlarry]

Juve - wouldn't be a surprise. Disgusting cheaters.

[@omzdinho5737]

Least controversial Juve dealing 🤣🤣

[@nyendwa]

That conspiracy theory hold up for me

[@Mr_jz_12]

Wouldn't be surprised in itallian football (or barca/madrid)

[@jameskim6442]

To be fair, with the frequency with which Pogba was regularly tested, it's hard to believe he'd dope.

[@VydeoGramesJunk]

Mourinho having the last laugh on this one lol

[@edl9081]

Always sad to see someone who children used to look up to, end up labeled as a cheater.

[@adamcetinkent]

Only children could look up to Pogba.

[@jonbar140]

I mean.... Was he ever an upstanding person?

[@yup9451]

​@@adamcetinkent LMFAO FR

[@yup9451]

​@@jonbar140 No he wasn't. Always sad that these pathetic turds who lack any sort of responsibility in their positions, get looked up to. They should act upstanding like Keane, Lampard, Iniesta, Xavi, Xabi, etc. back when football had actual men. These new kids are just that. Boys. Silly boys

[@juanhoustonmeza]

Messi took steroids mean while pogba just smoke THC from the pain that he was in 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mattweiss7645]

A 4 year ban for a 1st time offense is like lying on your taxes once and getting 20 years in prison. Totally over the top. In the US, most sports have tiered suspension with each offense starting from a quarter season than half, then 1 year and so on. 4 years makes sense for the Olympics, not for a yearly sport like club football

[@spencerl-yf6bg]

I agree to a certain extent. A 4-year ban for a first-time offense is too harsh but a quarter season is not harsh enough (unless it's something insignificant like cannabis). I think 18 months is good for a first-time offense.

[@sepp0]

a 4 year ban is ludicrous, especially looking at how many times they drug tested pogba. Not saying that necessarily makes him innocent, but it does seem like theres something shady behind this.

[@thenayancat8802]

A 4 year ban for taking performance enhancing drugs is absolutely fair, what are you on about?

[@eN3RD]

@@thenayancat8802for a first offense? While everybody else typically get 18 months??

[@thenayancat8802]

@@eN3RD Everybody else should be getting proper punishments as well :)

[@nettlarry]

Very convenient for Juventus. Saving a lot of money. He hasn't really played good in years anyway. If Juve would ever break any rules...

[@roronoazorro9509]

A general point/question, not directly related to Pogba. If someone in a club gives you drinks or supplements containing banned substances, in the hopes of boosting recovery of short-term performance perhaps, how do you guard against that?

[@semicolonenthusiast1354]

You don't take it anything without official say-so....but in the best-worst circumstance, someone with the club officially, you can claim unknowingly and hopefully get less than a multi-year ban, but since clubs are your employers, they should be guarding against it as well as the players themselves.

[@gadget00]

you guard by not taking them. that's it. If the club trainer gave it to you and you can prove it AND also prove you DIDN'T knew, then it's a different story eventhough you will be banned anyway

[@eldisa013]

Well if that someone is official, you can ask for legal document and permission to use the drug and a reasonable answer for taking the drug. Then you can go ahead and take it as long as you were following the rules given. But mainly, things like this don't exist in the top league. Somewhere down the tier, there is.

[@peterngetich4477]

While I was watching previous videos just now, ie John Thomson, Carlos Tevez&Mascherano and Erno video, this one popped, I love Tifo✔️

[@HalianTheProtogen]

As an American, four years is eye-watering. Major League Baseball, which has long had its own PED issues, prescribes an 80-game (½-season) suspension for the first positive test, with a full season for the second and Banned From Baseball for the third.

[@mastemawolfesq.2408]

Ye lunatics play 160 games a season in baseball???😮

[@uncreative5766]

​​@@mastemawolfesq.2408162 games, and if the games are tied after the standard nine innings, then the games keep going until there's a winner. Then throw in the postseason, and it is glorious.

[@uncreative5766]

Unless you're Alex Rodriguez, and you had your first ban of 211 games reduced to an entire season.

[@mastemawolfesq.2408]

@@uncreative5766 sounds excessive! Lol.

[@nathan9580]

@@uncreative5766 That's insane! I suppose there isn't really the level of physicality and endurance as soccer but 162 games is absolutely insane. Also P.S I've watched moneyball for the third time recently.... would it be worth it to try and get into baseball?

[@kion3999]

Why did you guys stop uploading as many main videos as you used to on this channel?

[@HorridDave]

Focusing more on content they are actually paid for

[@miscellaneous69420]

​@@HorridDavelike ?

[@sandyzaz]

The Athletic

[@1886Joel]

like you don't earn money on youtube.

[@duyanhng8430]

@@1886Joelthey usually don’t have paid sponsorship in the video outside the athletic and ads revenue for shorter video like these aren’t enough to pay a full team of people

[@lewis5384]

0:46 shout out George Saville - a good proper midfielder.

[@MrSabas15]

4 years sounds crazy. Juventus was like naw we need to get out this contract. Put that in his drink. 😂

[@BillyLoomiis1996]

His career was finished when he made that move from juventus to Manchester Utd it was a wrong move for him like sancho

[@BarcaFan1899]

Difference is Sancho returned to Dortmund and is actually playing well again

[@WizzyImz]

@@BarcaFan1899 yeah but unlike sancho pogba actually played well for united. he won us the league cup and europa league in his first season, then created bags of chances helping us to finish second, added goals to his game in his third and then in his fourth him coming back from injury inspired us to an unbeaten run coming back from 14 points off fourth to eventually finish 3rd. Shame injuries got to him and there was instability around him

[@andreashillitzer2291]

He earned a lot of money with a finished carreer

[@BillyLoomiis1996]

@@andreashillitzer2291 he deserved that money for ending career

[@Despicable_Gamer]

Just like hazard

[@krisr3868]

There's actually precedent for the accidental ingestion defense: Danish cyclist Martin Toft Madsen also tested positive for some banned substance a few year ago, after an hour record attempt. Madsen made a point out saving a sealed container from a batch of food supplements, and could prove that he had upheld his responsibilities - the supplement was simply dodgy. His hour record attempt was struck from record, but he did not get banned otherwise. And I wonder what happened if Operacion Puerto was investigated to its fullest. Eufemiano Fuentes claimed to have worked with half the teams in La Liga, including Barca and Real, yet no footballer was banned, and anti-doping runs at a pathetic level compared to other sports.

[@simplycvrsive]

"140 000 professionals"? For a global sport, that fields 11 players per team with squads consisting of more than 25 players at a time, those figures seem hard to believe. . . But back to our regularly scheduled programming.

[@drakonlegend4452]

5600 teams, seems wrong to me

[@nocunoct]

A huge chunk of people competing in hundreds of lower leagues across the world are playing as amateurs or are semi-pros at most. 140,000 full-time professionals worldwide sounds about right to me.

[@josuebarboza9809]

32 MLS teams x 25 Players =800 Players in a single league alone. Plus those teams have reserves, so at least 1000 players in the top flight of a country where soccer is like the fourth most popular sport

[@twoc.c1468]

@@drakonlegend4452 5600 teams times 25 players in each squad gives... 140.000 players. And many clubs have more than 25 players in their squads

[@niialaadjei4668]

​@@josuebarboza9809 England alone has 12 lower divisions.

[@Sp1NNN023]

Can you do a video of who would be a perfect West Ham manager, someone who would actually fit our players and wish of our fans to play attacking football?

[@TJTOPBOY]

Don’t need a video for that. I will tell you who is your perfect manage, Mikel Arteta.

[@bilalomar4477]

3 things: - the fact that FIFA was slow to adopt anti-doping policy in the first place - that soccer players are not tested very often (or some are tested disproportionally more than others-see video of Pogba tested at United and responding “Again?!”) - that a 4 year ban is rare in any sport, but was handed to Pogba Makes me think he was in some way targeted by soccer authorities. Don’t know who, but just doesn’t smell right.

[@gadget00]

targeted for what? stop making james bond arguments over simple stuff. FiFA has been pressured for decades to up their game in banned substance regulation and Pogba made the wrong mistake at the wrong time

[@josuebarboza9809]

By who, for what, how? Lol anyone can claim anything

[@alandunne2728]

Guardiola got caught while at Brescia, funny how you forgot to mention that.

[@RaulEdu33]

He is definitely giving the City players some PEDs, even his biographer talked about the "magic shakes" his physios gave the Barça players.

[@Evemeister12]

Graeme Souness was on the decision panel.

[@lukew6725]

Honestly insane how infrequently footballers are tested, that needs to change asap!

[@Wilkostorm_RL]

Gonna be honest here lads, it’s sad It’s not even funny; I don’t support United, or Juve. It was genuinely depressing to see such a good player essentially fail, it actually disappointed me, he was so talented

[@andylolol]

Nah its kinda funny

[@dageek1000]

No it’s not

[@YNWA-1888]

Yup. What a waste.

[@Iksvomid]

He wanted to be Mr Instagram, now he has the chance!

[@smackheadsgyro]

'Everybody's on steroids' - Nate Diaz Would bet my entire bank balance that most participants of your sport or doping

[@jonchapman86]

I can't believe you didn't mention the Rio Ferdinand case. That was massive at the time.

[@darrenasante924]

4 years is substantially higher than basically all in football

[@Sirleendo]

These animated videos are my favourite

[@pedrosoares7273]

Players should be tested at least on a monthly basis

[@LisztyLiszt]

I remember Kevin Kilbane once saying he was only tested twice in his entire career!

[@johndoe2769]

With his athletic ability you'd just be testing him for coke let's be real here 😂

[@CezrDaPleazr]

More of these videos plz

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

More or less most footballers do it, especially with such a tight schedule, Pogba (and some then and there) just get caught. As it mentioned on the video, so few tests are going on in football compare to other sports like cycling. As much as UCI is s*** in places, at least they put a good efforts in anti-doping

[@gadget00]

He has to face it, unfortunately. He's done in top flight football. When the ban ends, is either MLS or retirement for him. It's "unfortunate" if he really took the american supplement without knowing what was in it (kinda like Maradona in '94), but the stricter rules have to start somewhere. Doping is an epidemic and it's football's time to cleanse from it

[@j.a.l.m.8388]

My childhood friend Abel Xavier never smoked or drank and then this 😢😢😢

[@mrcharlyie5393]

your videos are excellent

[@akamiguelsanchez9985]

Laughs in Souness

[@ayanbarua2400]

"My thought process is to show Manchester [United] that they made a mistake in waiting to give me a contract." Thanks for proving your point

[@coquio]

Meanwhile Kyle Walker literally breathing the juice

[@domhuckle]

Difficult to imagine his time back at Juve would be worse than Utd. Turns out I just wasn't trying hard enough

[@PirateD.KingLuffy]

Nah he definitely got setup

[@ikechukwuiroegbu3714]

@TifoFootball He rejoined Juve on a free transfer in 2022, not 2020.

[@arunashamal]

It is amazing how quick Juventus as a whole fell post COVID!

[@markdowding5737]

I always thought 4 years were excessive, especially for a first-time offender. 2 years would have been a more appropriate penalty

[@shafsteryellow]

Less since their is proof he had not intention

[@markdowding5737]

@@shafsteryellow he decided to take an experimental treatment without his club's approval, so he is still fully responsible for the tainted supplement.

[@fmiftah]

Considering juve's reputation, they ordered a hit on pogba is not far-fetched

[@osiris7800]

Graham Souness will be delighted!!!!!

[@pacoramon9468]

In 2017, his face was next to Messi in clothing stores.

[@LoightaFluwid]

Now he's next to a mess

[@Wvdlinden1]

In other words, he was supposed to take something else that wouldn't show up on a test, but got screwed somehow

[@RastaHenkie]

4 years is way too long with out proof he did it deliberately for a long period.

[@ItsMeHammie]

4 years is crazy

[@abdulhameedabu688]

Let's be honest, 4 years is too much

[@MrLewyboy]

No mention of Pep doping when he’s one of the biggest names in football?

[@aam9216]

I wonder what manchester city players are taking

[@sbs-0055]

Walker and Rodri need to be tested 😂

[@alwaysbrillant10]

4 years is wild and unfair.

[@kwazilucas]

So there are drugs that aren't banned? I know Anadin makes you a beast on the pitch.

[@joepiekl]

There's legal supplements like caffeine (which Leicester were rumoured to be using to a ridiculous extent in their title-winning season), but also banned drugs that are allowed with therapeutic use exemptions (very common in cycling). The latter is where the rumours about Liverpool's insane levels of 'asthma' in the squad come from. Whether or not those two examples are true, it almost certainly happens across the sport, because a lot of people are paid a lot of money to find any improvement in performance they can within the rules. What you could argue though, is that unlike purely physical sports like weightlifting and cycling, there's less of a payoff when it comes to doping in football. Firstly, it's more of a mixture of skill, tactics and physicality, so doping is only changing a small aspect of your performance. And secondly, you're only one of eleven players on the pitch, so your individual impact on the result is far less than in individual sports. In football, it's seems to just as often be players putting pressure on themselves to get into the team, rather than giving themselves the edge in an important game. I still remember Kolo Toure getting done for slimming pills, and that was when he wasn't really getting starts.

[@smartwhip.]

Trenbolone and dbol aren’t banned

[@benjaminlynch9958]

Like caffeine and nicotine. Technically drugs, but completely legal.

[@kwazilucas]

@@smartwhip. Are they effective?

[@robertgammon-ross9983]

Why did the sevilla player get 2 and pogba get 4? Genuinely curious

[@seb2750]

Maybe different laws in Spain and Italy

[@robertgammon-ross9983]

@@seb2750 but the ban isn't a govt ban I think. It's a ban from FIFA from working in their competitions

[@fehtuh5902]

It's because Papu Gomez's ban was by FIFA and their standard punishment is two years instead of four.

[@crimsonlightbinder]

Paul Pogba is not a serious player and has surrounded himself with a dubious entourage and he now faces the consequences. Disregarding this, it is more and more clear that a great deal of players are taking performance enhancing drugs. There is no denying this and at some point we will know the truth. For now, there are well kept secrets, but secrets tend to get to the surface. All these players collapsing on the field is particularly suspicious to me. Unfortunately, the crazy "show" must go on for the betting agencies and the investment funds

[@Mercurial.]

He was ALWAYS been a one trick pony who couldn't lead a team or was NEVER even the best player on a team. Social media player that cared about his cars, haircuts and jewelry. Told my friends why Man U even bothered signing him then I heard he was at Man U as a youth player. Oh dear what a failure at Old Trafford let alone his career. Overrated player.

[@sususegar]

To be fair he had enough talent to play at the top level, but that's about it. Mentality of a waster, however.

[@esteemedcharacteractressma4086]

As a United fan, I wish he got banned when he was playing for us. He was just a dabbing Glenn Whelan with good PR

[@T1kr3b3u]

Bruh, Harry Maguire still at ManU.

[@shakiMiki]

United is not a club talented players flourish these days. Hasn't been for many years.

[@sususegar]

Yea, would've saved the club millions on a tool-downing virus

[@Major_Okwiri]

The death of former controversial football agent Mino Riola has made his clients go through hard time

[@folajimijacobson8890]

Pogba returned to juve on a free transfer in 2022* 0:52

[@jzilla1234]

Man... we got robbed

[@svsv1191]

Why did ramos not get a ban?

[@g-stergaming4502]

1 minute into video and it's, he rejoing Juventus in 2020 ...I mean if this so called "expert" channel can get the easiest to look up data wrong (was 2022) then is there any point to watching the rest of this ill informed, poorly researched (of any at all) video??

[@AizensChair]

lock him up, throw away the key and free him when Spurs win the Prem 😏

[@iRushil]

That's quite sad.

[@cass2239]

Wasnt Kolo Toure banned while playing in the Prem?

[@ashleythomas4112]

Yeah, in 2011 while at Man City. He was banned for 6 months.

[@JuanDiegoPinillos]

The 4 years to Pogba is not for the drug itself or for the offense, but because he's black. let's stop pretending otherwise, we're only fooling ourselves.

[@loose_leaf_lofi]

Very upsetting how such a great player just ruined his legacy

[@Mercurial.]

"great player" 😂🤣

[@truenoae8689]

​@@Mercurial.He was unreal

[@calahoon22]

Even before "ruining his legacy" he would have only been remembered as a part in Frances World Cup win. He'll never make any "great players" lists

[@Mercurial.]

@christhewolf4246 So with that being said from you that means he had shown 2 promising seasons with Juventus to be France's greatest midfielder?! An absolute joke of a disgrace you even uttered that nonsense in 2 years at Juve 😭

[@daaljones9584]

​@@Mercurial.4 years

[@TheAshuV]

This guy left a team made around him and left for Man united without Ferguson , he was already high on something 😂

[@TrillBill]

4 years seems excessive in my opinion. Just ban him for a season or two and be done with it. Taking 4 years off his life for something ALOT of players are doing.

[@Ulutv06]

He rejoined in 2022

[@BrownDeluxe]

he was never the most exspensive player in football

[@jerryrikki9466]

How come wheres JJ bull

[@bhvithai5327]

I hear Joe Devine, my ears perk up and listen.

[@jonbar140]

When you're not really an honorable person, we don't care what you say after you get caught doping, or cheating, or whatever

[@nelson-ochieng]

Tifo has been cooking😅

[@NoCureForMe]

Paul Pogba was finished at top level before the ban. His only hope is a reduced ban and a meal ticket from the Saudi League.

[@shafsteryellow]

No he wasn't

[@antoniooliveira4100]

It's a very sad story. He could be one of the best mildfielders ever.

[@plipogamez3173]

What are the benefits of DHEA?

[@108u9]

His United transfer did worse to his career than the drugs

[@FejiroUmukoroO.B.E.]

Pogba what went wrong my bro

[@juniorp726]

Time to come to mls

[@RaulEdu33]

4:03 Why didn't you mention Pep? 😅 He got sanctioned by this compound during his playing days. I'm sure they must be giving the City players some Pep-tides and Guardiolone. ☝️💊💉

[@terencedhlamini7682]

whoa 2027

[@pemegangkoencisyurga]

You don't need to be a doctor to know this man use it, his "ice in the veins" celebration was a clue all along

[@Iann-zb3qn]

Lol

[@danielatkins1980]

Banned for doping. As simple as that. No video needed.

[@bharatavarsha10k]

If substance is used, one should be punished. Cheers 🍻

[@FUCKDAHUAYKWANGCOPS]

He has some decent long passes, a few good long range shots, that's about it. No idea why people worship him so much. Yes, I'm from the Zidane / Figo era.

[@jamesfx2]

Pogba had some mystery injuries at United where he was out for 4 months without anyone knowing anything specific. I wouldn't be surprised if he's been taking performance enhancing drugs for years, maybe since his first stay at Juventus. I hope people haven't covered for him since I don't think clubs are obliged to report on internal drugs tests.

[@leonardodias1173]

in less than 10 years time, stories like Pogba's will become a normality in football Football is the only major sport without a "steroid-era", but the increasing ammount of games per season players are forced to play will force them there

[@mysteryman480]

In 2006, there were credible reports from the Operacion Puerto case of numerous footballers doping.

[@kapoioBCS]

Sorry but this definitely not true, there is no professional sport without steroids for more than 40 years, including football.

[@iamthemanwithnoname6140]

Forgot to mention Rio Ferdinand was a high profile player banned for doping. He always seems to get away with it because he ran from the test so we don't know what he took and he was a popular England player and now pundit. But he's a drugs cheat, same as the others mentioned in this video.

[@ajinkyaghalsasi365]

Rio wasnt banned for being a cheat, he didn't turn up for a test!

[@soso-V12]

Go check the recent video where he talks about it instead of chatting sh*t

[@xiz0808]

He missed a test, then took a test shortly after which he passed, then offered to take a hair follicle test, which would of shown any long term doping, so no, he wasn't a drugs cheat, just a moron for missing the test

[@iamthemanwithnoname6140]

@@xiz0808 Man do I have a bridge for you. He had a hearing, gave conflicting and unconvincing evidence and was found guilty. The way Ferdinand tried to defend himself he would have needed a live in carer to survive, let alone thrive in society. His defense was that he is the single stupidest person in the world and the FA rightly didn't buy it.

[@iamthemanwithnoname6140]

@@ajinkyaghalsasi365 Correction: He ran away from a test.

[@ucan1]

Comments are now becoming more popular than posts. This is my comment Leave your own comments here!

[@anaqisyatbi5167]

a video about drugs without mentioning Adrian Mutu is mad

[@sneakyvee]

I don't feel sorry for this guy. Man U gave him everything and he kept screwing them over in the transfer market.

[@CezrDaPleazr]

I mean...roids don't help

[@jonathanmcroberts8549]

He's no loss.

[@chadmaisman9655]

I firmly believe every single top flight footbal player is taking some form of PEDs and that circumventing getting positevely tested is incredibly commonplace. I personally dont have any problems with this, Im here to watch the best footbal players in the world and if that requires the use of PEDs then so be it, they get paid a large enough salary to justify the physical risks of PEDs. PEDs would also help them with muscle recovery and thus prevent injuries. I feel sorry for Pogba for getting banned for this while most likely all his teammates were on the juice too

[@Soccertricksta1014]

It started with his brothers voodoo