Until clause do us part. After the near divorce last August, the soap opera Dybala is ready to open a new chapter, of which no fan of Romaconsidering the general situation of the team, felt the need. January is approaching and with him also the start of the winter transfer market session, with the related rumors about transfers or presumed transfers. That’s enough a photo from Turkeyto fill online pages and newspaper lines again on the future of the left-handed player from Laguna Larga.
The shot in question was captured the day before yesterday, during Galatasaray-Trabzonspor – ended, for the record, 4 to 3 in favor of the home team, with an own goal to win in the 98th minute. Also among the spectators in the stands George Gardian intermediary who brought many players from Serie A to the Turkish championship, in the company of Carlos NovelPaulo Dybala’s agent and more. A presence that set in motion the usual media bandwagon, ready to whiz by noisily when talking about the Joyawith the rush of Turkish fans invading social media on the 21st and that of reporters to put Dybala one step away from Istanbul. All movements justified by Galatasaray’s real interest in the Roma player, but at least hasty for a negotiation that hasn’t even started or, better said, that it died at birth.
Yes, because Galatasaray’s expression of interest in Dybala was not born the day before yesterday, during the pleasant evening spent at Novel in Türkiye, but about a month and a half agowhen the compatriot Icardi he stopped for the rupture of the cruciate ligament – the former Inter captain has finished the season. Thus, the rich Turkish club started looking for strikers capable of replacing him, not only from a technical point of view, but also if not above all from a media point of view. As, several weeks ago, the first phone call from Gardi to Novel was madebut the left-handed attorney on the other end of the phone was quite explicit: thanks, but we are not interestedin January Paulo doesn’t move.
So why a month later, close to the opening of the winter market and a few days after the announcement by the Friedkins – not over the speakerphone of the Texan owners, but in the newspapers – of the imminent revolution in Trigoria explodes in a instant a new Dybala case? He gave the answer yesterday, to the microphones of Sport Mediaset, Ranieri: «Everyone plays their own game». Hence the further question, Who is playing and why?
To answer, we need to take a few steps back. Dybala’s refusal to accept Arab petrodollars, which arrived on a late summer evening, it definitely surprised Al-Qadsiah – who already had the private jet ready at Ciampino – but also Rome itself. The club, in fact, had come to believe that separation could be, under certain conditions, the right choice, especially in view of the automatic renewal provided for by the Joya contract – e now only a few appearances away as a starter. An extension, under these conditions, that those who keep track of Roma would like to avoid and Paulo’s entourage knows this well too. Once she left Hellowith whom relations were now saturated, Novel called at the end of September Ghisolfishowing the willingness on his part and that of the player to sit around the table to negotiate a new contract, removing any type of clause – including the termination fee of 12 millionwhich will be reactivated in January – and perhaps spreading the onerous salary. A call which, until yesterday, had not yet been followed up on. And so it is convenient on the one hand to express the interest – concrete, but already rejected – of Galatasaray and on the other – Roma – to reiterate as Ranieri did yesterday that anyone who is not happy can leave Trigoria at any time, there are no indispensable players .
A party game, with the Roma fans in the middlewho await results more than news.
