The scandalous accusations made by Paul Pogba’s brother in opposition to the Juventus participant threaten to disrupt the peace and concord of the French nationwide squad forward of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Mathias Pogba accuses his youthful brother, whom he labels a traitor, of resorting to witchcraft to attempt to injure teammate Kylian Mbappe.
L’Equipe describes the controversy between the Pogba brothers as “a case as sordid as it’s probably explosive for Les Bleus”.
Deschamps’ response to the Pogba and Mbappe scandal
The coach of the French nationwide workforce, Didier Deschamps, will now need to take care of the fallout, which is paying homage to the previous incident between Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena, when the striker was accused of being a part of an tried intercourse tape blackmail plot in 2015.
Pogba is at the moment out injured and is going through a race in opposition to time to make the France‘s ultimate World Cup squad, however that does not imply there will not be a problem.
“Even when Pogba doesn’t arrive in time, Deschamps must face the media storm that’s anticipated when an investigation is opened into threats and tried extortion by an organised gang,” Vincent Garcia wrote for L’Equipe.
“With two and a half months to go earlier than the World Cup, Deschamps is going through an explosive state of affairs during which he must determine what to do with Pogba. If the info are confirmed, he might not be in favour of Pogba.”
The French newspaper is anxious about how this case might have an effect on the efficiency of Pogba, and even Kylian Mbappe, who has been drawn into the saga by Mathias, regardless of Paul‘s outright denial of the story.
Is there proof that Pogba employed a marabout to injure Mbappe?
There are studies in France that Mathias Pogba plans to share a video as proof that his brother Paul employed a marabout (Muslim non secular instructor) to injure Mbappe utilizing witchcraft.
For the second, the French soccer federation has proven its full help for Paul Pogba, however it is not clear what his brother is planning subsequent.
What occurred between Benzema and Valbuena?
As for the earlier scandal, in November 2021 Benzema was discovered responsible of complicity within the tried blackmail of former worldwide teammate Valbuena over a intercourse tape.
The Actual Madrid participant was sentenced to a one-year suspended jail time period, which he must serve within the occasion of a repeat offence, and fined 75,000 euros.
In the course of the trial, Benzema‘s attorneys defended the French star by claiming the participant’s actions have been solely to assist Valbuena, with none malicious intent.
That saga noticed the striker excluded by Deschamps for a number of years, however he was finally introduced again into the group forward of Euro 2020.