The suspense over Paul Pogba's participation in the World Cup (21 November - 18 December) is about to end.
According to concordant sources, the 29-year-old player, victim on July 25 in training with Juventus Turin of a lesion of the lateral meniscus, went to Lyon on Tuesday to consult Bertrand Sonnery-Cotter.
The opinion of this knee specialist, who had operated on Zlatan Ibrahimovic in May 2022, promises to be decisive as to the therapy to be adopted.
The world champion took off from Turin's Caselle airport around 11:30 a.m. for France.
He left Lyon around 3 p.m. and landed half an hour later in the Piedmontese capital, landing at the airport, according to witnesses, with a slight limp and a slightly tense smile, without blinking a word.
The native of Lagny-sur-Marne must choose between two operations: meniscectomy and meniscal suture.
The first, considered the lightest, would result in an absence of 40 to 60 days.
The second, heavier but more certain in the long term, would oblige the player to three weeks on crutches and an absence of 3-4 months, with the risk of reaching up to five.
If option two is chosen, then it would be the end of his hopes of competing in the World Cup.
In the next few hours, Pogba will make a final decision after consulting the medical staff of Juventus, which he joined this summer, and the France team.