Behind the scenes: When, where and how Juventus completed Paulo Dybala’s switch
Juventus director of sport Fabio Paratici met Dybala’s agent Pierpaolo Triulzi in a hotel in the heart of Milan’s city centre on the 20th of January 2015. The meeting lasted about one hour.
Everyone wanted him at the time. Berlusconi was ready to offer big, Roberto Mancini was regularly talking to the player on the mobile and Inter were trying to get all the money they needed to sign one of the most exciting prospects in Serie A.
Juventus, however, made the first move. They were the first ones to sit around the negotiations table with both Palermo and the player even if Zamparini was willing to extend the player’s stay at Palermo offering him a contract extension.
That meeting at the beginning of January would have been the decisive one for Dybala’s Juventus switch.
The Old Lady matched his economic requests straight away and presented the tactical project to her new Toy Boy. Paratici wanted to get a first-option clause, Dybala’s agent did not made any promise but was pretty sure that the bianconeri could have signed Dybala for somewhere around € 35 million. They’d spent € 40 million in the end. Dybala’s market value is now € 80 million at least.
Dybala, 22, will travel to Palermo tomorrow as a rosanero’s opponent for the second time in his career and that’s how when, where and when Juventus set up his transfer.
Fabrizio Romano, adapted by Lorenzo Bettoni @lorebetto
