Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba reportedly considered quitting football when he was threatened by an armed gang earlier this year.
The France international, who returned to Juventus in the summer, was allegedly threatened with blackmail by an armed gang demanding €13 million from the player, as per Le Journal du Dimanche.
It is believed that the incident with so traumatic on Pogba that he told friends he wanted to disappear and that he wanted to hang up his boots.
“He had a hard time speaking, then he told me that he and my little brother had been robbed by hooded guys with weapons,” Pogba’s friend Boubacar Camara said.
“Paul said to me… ‘I don’t want to play football anymore, I want to disappear.’ Paul was crying, I told him to calm down… He was afraid for his children, his wife, his family.”
