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PAUL POGBA could “return to the pitch tomorrow”, claims his agent Rafaela Pimenta.The former Manchester United star, 30, has been out of action since September after testing positive for banned substance DHEA, a precursor hormone of testosterone.
Paul Pogba has been suspended since SeptemberCredit: Getty
Pogba will have to undergo trial at the National Anti-Doping Tribunal.
Proceedings were initially supposed to get under way on January 18th, but the date was pushed back.
Pimenta has denied that Pogba intended to break the rules, telling Tuttosport last year: “We’re waiting for the counter-analysis and we can’t say anything now.
“For sure, Pogba never wanted to bend the rules — I can guarantee that.”
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The agent has since offered a further update on the Frenchman’s status, telling Calciomercato: “Pogba could return to the pitch tomorrow.
“He is ready for any situation, he is also a champion mentally. He takes a blow, digests it and moves on.
“He didn’t move forward irresponsibly, he trains knowing that he must be ready.”
Still contracted to Juventus, Pogba believes that he has a point to prove in his career.
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Pimenta added: “Sometimes I’ll ask him: ‘Shall we do something else?’. And he’ll get angry, saying to me: ‘Rafa! I have to train.
“You don’t understand, I have to play, I have to win, and I have to finish a journey that I started’.
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“If he were to play tomorrow, he could come on the pitch and play. Obviously, it’s a difficult moment to overcome.”
Pogba rejoined Juve from Man Utd on a free transfer in 2022.
He suffered an injury-hit first campaign back in Turin – only featuring six times in Serie A.
The midfielder came off the bench in two of Juventus’ first three games of this season, prior to being suspended.
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LAZIO are reportedly targeting a double raid on Sunderland for Jobe Bellingham and Jack Clarke.The Italian giants, managed by ex-Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri, are on the hunt for some bargains this summer.
Jobe Bellingham is being lined up for a move to Lazio this summerCredit: Getty
The Italians also want Sunderland teammate Jack ClarkeCredit: Getty
And Gazzetta claims they have identified two of the Black Cats’ top stars as major transfer targets.
Bellingham, 18, is the younger brother of Real Madrid and England star Jude.
The midfielder only joined Sunderland from Birmingham last summer.
But he has quickly become a key player and already has five goals in 33 matches this season.
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As for Clarke, he was reportedly the subject of a failed £13.5million bid from Lazio in January.
The flying winger, 23, is in his third season at Sunderland after moving from Tottenham.
And he has hit an incredible 14 goals in 34 outings from wide positions.
Sunderland are desperate to keep both players, especially if they win promotion to the Premier League.
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The Black Cats are 10th in the Championship table after winning 14 matches.
Just one point separates them from the play-offs.
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As for Lazio, they are suffering a disappointing Serie A campaign after finishing second last term.
They sit 7th after just 11 wins and are five points off the Champions League spots.
But Sarri’s men are in the Coppa Italia semis, where they will face Juventus for a place in the final.
And they also have one foot in the Champions League quarters after a 1-0 win over Bayern Munich in Wednesday’s last 16, first-leg tie. More

THIS is the bizarre moment Inter Milan fans appear to have been recorded singing for Kanye West’s new number one Spotify track.The star’s album, Vultures 1, dropped this week and baffled many when it included the football fanatics in the credits.
A bizarre video claims to show football fans being recorded for Kanye West’s new trackCredit: TikTok / @rollingloud
The track is called Carnival and is part of Kanye’s new album he made in collaboration with Ty Dolla $ignCredit: Rex
The ultra’s are said to have provided the back in sound for one of the songs in the album, Carnival.
A video has now emerged claiming to show the sports enthusiasts making a raucous in the recording studio.
In the clip a crowd of men belt out a chant as a conductor desperately tries to keep them in tune.
The fans don’t just feature in one song but two as they were also called in to lend their talents to the title track of the album and have been given credits for writing parts of both songs.
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This is Kanye’s first album since his controversial fall from grace as he was labelled an anti-semite for his comments in 2022.
It is part of a trilogy of albums made by Kanye and singer Ty Dolla $ign going by the joint name of ¥$.
Vultures 2 and Vultures 3 also set to be released this year.
Vultures, which features Rich the Kid and Playboy Carti, looks set to be West’s highest-charting track in 15 years and has more than 6.28 million plays so far.
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On Tuesday Kanye occupied half of all the spots inside the top 10 on Spotify’s ranking of the most-streamed songs in the U.S.
He has also ranked the number one most listened to artist on the site in the last two days.
He even managed to deny Beyonce’s song Texas Hold ‘Em the top spot as it now sits in second position falling short by just thousands of streams.
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It comes as Taylor Swift was accused of removing Kanye West from his Super Bowl seats.
It happened after Kanye attempted to upstage Taylor at the Super Bowl, according to former NFL wide receiver Brandon Marshall.
On his Paper Route podcast, Marshall claimed that West bought seats directly in front of Swift’s suite for the Super Bowl in an effort to photobomb her TV appearances.
However, Marshall claimed that Swift made “a call or two” to get West removed from Allegiant Stadium.
Swift became one of the faces of the NFL this season, but it seems unlikely that she would have the power to fully remove West from the stadium, especially if he paid for a ticket.
However, it is possible that she could have gotten his seat moved because of their tumultuous history.
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JOSE Mourinho has lashed out at Roma’s owners after being given the boot last month. Typically outspoken, Mourinho, 61, announced the sacking was ‘unexpected and unfair’ after declaring the club’s owners ‘know little about football’.
Jose Mourinho lashed out at Roma owners who ‘know little about football’Credit: Rex
Mourinho waited a month before throwing his toys out of the pramCredit: Rex
The man who once famously referred to himself as ‘The Special One’ was fired by the Giallorossi on January 16 following a miserable 3-1 loss to Milan.
The Portuguese boss left his former side sitting seventh in the league table as Daniele De Rossi was ushered in on a sixth month deal to replace him.
Supporters were fuming about the sacking and took to plastering banners and posters across the city to vent their frustration.
Speaking to Football.com via Calciomercato.com, Mourinho threw his toys out of the pram and took a swipe at his bosses.
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He said: “The European competitions are about to begin, in particular the Champions League, perhaps the most important competition on the world calendar.
“I won’t be there at these final stages, not because I’ve already been eliminated, but because I was ‘eliminated’ by someone who knows little about football.
“That’s life, full of ups and downs, and I’m growing, despite the unexpected and unfair dismissal.
“But I will return, with even more enthusiasm and confidence, for these Uefa matches.”
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In his 30-month spell at Roma, Mourinho won the Conference League and reached the Europa League final.
He has since been linked with a return to the Premier League as he has been tipped for a return to Stamford Bridge following the team’s inconsistent form under Mauricio Pochettino.
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JOSE MOURINHO argued with Cristiano Ronaldo when he subbed off the superstar forward – but also transformed the forward’s career with a tactical tweak.The Special One then revealed to Rio Ferdinand how he turned down an incredible job offer – and might even have managed England.
Jose Mourinho made a shock revelation about previous job offers he turned downCredit: X @rioferdy5
He also lifted the lid on what it was like to manage Cristiano RonaldoCredit: Reuters
Mourinho, 61, was axed by Roma on January 16 after a dismal run that left the Italian giants ninth in Serie A.
But after leaving a bitter note in the dressing room in a final dig at his players, he sat down for an chat on Ferdinand’s FIVE podcast.
And one of the key discussions points was managing Ronaldo at Real Madrid – including dealing his superstar compatriot’s ego and desire to be the best.
Mourinho said: “You have guys like Cristiano, where you are playing against Levante and you are winning 5-0 and you tell the guy to relax and take a rest.
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“‘No, no, no, I can score one more goal!’ When you have guys like this, you know the boat is in the water and you just let the boat go and in the end you enjoy the fight.
“I think you don’t coach [him]. You don’t teach much, it’s about being happy and it’s about creating an environment from the tactical point of view, from the ideas of football, where the player can show.
“Cristiano, you know him as well as I do and almost in consecutive years. Motivation, you don’t need to give him. Ambition, you don’t need to give him. Technique, you don’t need to give him. 
“You give some tactical adjustments and let the guy be happy.”
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Ronaldo made his name at Sporting then alongside Ferdinand at Manchester United as a tricky, speedy winger.
But it was during his time at the Bernabeu that he moved central into a No9 focused on finding the net time and time and time again – a record 450 times for Los Blancos.
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And Mourinho is certainly claiming some of the credit.
He added: “Madrid for Cristiano was a little bit of a transition because for you [Ferdinand’s Manchester United] he was a winger – left winger, right winger, dribbling, attacking people, beating people.
“In Madrid, he became more the goalscorer that he was for the rest of his career.
“In fact, probably the first time he played a big match as a striker was Real Madrid vs Barcelona in a cup final where he scored an amazing goal with an amazing header in extra-time. 
“Probably that was the first time people got the feeling that animal could be a goalscorer and not just a pure winger.
“Madrid was a bit of a hybrid because he was playing from the left but he was not wide and not chasing full-backs and we were protecting him with the balance being with Xabi Alonso and Sami Khedira.
“That is the position when they can be more effective and score more goals.”
Mourinho also stunned Ferdinand by announcing some of the posts he rejected over the years, including the chance to manage the former centre-back.
The Portuguese gaffer said: “I refused great working opportunities.
“The first one was even very, very hard to refuse because it was Portugal.
“I could be their coach in the national team.”

He then added to Ferdinand: “Also yours, I had it there on the table.
“I didn’t because I gave everything in my heart, I gave options that even could be considered not very clever by the professional point of view.”
Ferdinand had his head in his hand and immediately replied: “No way.”
And the comment implies Mourinho could have either been Three Lions boss or maybe taken over at Old Trafford earlier.
He famously did step into the Red Devils hot seat in 2016 but that was two years after Ferdinand departed for QPR.
However, so far he has steered clear of international football – instead keeping his full focus on some of Europe’s top clubs.
Reflecting on his two-year stint at United, Mourinho added: “I loved my time there.
“I don’t think the media helped me.”
Mourinho led Roma in 138 matches – six short of his Manchester United tally – and won the inaugural Europa Conference League.
That included a record 7-0 thumping of Empoli in September 2023.
But a downturn in form saw Roma slide down the table and Mourinho got the boot.
In the trailer video, the clip ends with a teaser as Mourinho is asked what comes next for him.
The former PE teacher has already been linked with stunning return to Chelsea if Mauricio Pochettino is dismissed.
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Reports he is learning a new language hinted he could be eyeing the Bayern Munich job – or even a move to Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, Mourinho admitted it would be an “honour” to manage Lionel Messi before the Inter Miami superstar retires.
Mourinho took over at Old Trafford in 2016Credit: Getty – Contributor
The Special One appeared on Rio Ferdinand’s podcastCredit: X @rioferdy5
He could have been Ferdinand’s boss with England or the Red DevilsCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd More