Dybala said goodbye to Juventus last June. Photo: Instagram
The suspense for Paulo Dybala’s future is over. The Argentine striker will finally play for Roma, in Serie A, for the next three years after accepting the proposal made to him personally by the Portuguese coach José Mourinho, as confirmed by the Italian sports media on Monday.
Dybala, 28, is in the running to play the Qatar World Cup 2022 Now that the lists will be 26 players, he has accepted a three-year contract for which he will receive 6 million euros per year and will have a 20 million euros exit clause.
“La Joya said yes to DT José Mourinho and is a new player for the Giallorossi club”highlights the newspaper Tuttosport at the time of confirmation of the operation.
The cordovan striker arrives at Roma after being released from Juventus, where he played for seven seasons, in which he played 293 games, with 115 goals and 54 assists. At the Turin club he also collected twelve titles distributed over 5 Scudetti, 4 Italian Cups and 3 Italian Super Cups. Previously he had been to Palermo, now owned by the City group, where he had arrived from the Instituto de Córdoba and without ever having played in the First Division of Argentine football.
Paulo Dybala and his discoverer Santos Turza (right) on a football field.
A WhatsApp in the morning
The Argentine decided this morning to move to Rome, according to the same sources. Corriere dello Sport assures that “the player’s decision arrived at dawn”.
“Last night at 2.00 Paulo Dybala said yes to Roma, today the club tries to close the deal. Also important is the phone call from Mou a week ago: ‘Paulo, I really want to have you with me. We will have fun together. And we will win ‘”, added the sports newspaper.
Oriana Sabatini and Paulo Dybala, a couple who moved from Turin to Rome. Photo: Instagram.
“The deal came at dawn when Dybala replied to Mourinho’s WhatsApp and confirmed that he had accepted the offer “, adds La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I am very happy,” the Argentine told the Portuguese Roma coach when he offered him the number 10 shirt as a seduction strategy for the pass.
Former footballer Francesco Totti, one of the greatest idols of the Roman club, had also tempted him with that emblematic number he wore during his career in the institute (1992-2017).
Right to Portugal
Dybala celebrates his goal in the Grand Final against Italy, at Wembley. Photo: AFP
Dybala immediately traveled to Albufeira, Portugal to join his new team’s retreat and undergo medical tests.
He did so accompanied by the club’s sports director, Tiago Pinto, in a private jet made available by the president of the institution, the American billionaire Dan Friedkin, Italian media reported.
The former Juventus player will join his new teammates and Mourinho, whose intervention was decisive for the player’s acceptance of the Roma offer, in Albufeira, the team’s concentration camp and where medical examinations will also take place.
Source: agencies
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