Paulo Dybala will leave Juventus this summer on something of a sour note, unceremoniously dumped and leaving the Bianconeri on a free transfer.
Dybala, 28, has spent the last seven years in Turin since joining the club from Palermo in June 2015. The Argentine international has won five Serie A titles and four Coppa Italia trophies, scoring 113 goals in 283 games. That includes 13 this season, during which relations between he, his representatives and club officials have been far from sanguine.
So how did it come that ‘La Joya’ - The Jewel - went from being hailed as the successor to Alessandro Del Piero and the club’s poster boy, to being ushered out of the back door? Bianconeri bosses admit that the January arrival of Dusan Vlahovic ‘changed everything’, but Dybala's exit has in fact been a long-time coming.
