{"id":297640,"date":"2025-11-20T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:54:08","slug":"pogback-paul-pogba-finally-set-to-make-return-to-football-with-monaco-after-26-month-absence-due-to-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297640\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogback! Paul Pogba FINALLY set to make return to football with Monaco after 26-month absence due to ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pocognoli has made no secret of the importance he attaches to the midfielder\u2019s return. Monaco are sixth in Ligue 1, five points behind Marseille and trail by seven from league leaders Paris Saint-Germain. Pogba\u2019s presence, especially his experience and technical quality, is seen as vital to closing that gap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During one of my first internal meetings, I spoke about the club\u2019s legacy. I believe that leaders, like Paul, must pass on their knowledge to the next generation, to the fans, to everyone involved with the club,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;These experienced players must mentor the younger ones. I have to make sure they succeed. The more leaders we have, the more the pressure is distributed. If Paul is used effectively, the group can benefit from his influence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six months after everything fell apart, Pogba is ready to become a footballer again, wearing the No. 8 shirt on Saturday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pocognoli has made no secret of the importance he attaches to the midfielder\u2019s return. Monaco are sixth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,18944,927,98050,170448,170449,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-297640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ligue-1","12":"tag-monaco","13":"tag-p-pogba","14":"tag-rennes","15":"tag-rennes-vs-monaco","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}