The Italian club are eager to lock down their star Argentine attacker by the end of the season <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici confirmed the Serie A giants had started contract talks with attacker Paulo Dybala.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Dybala, 26, is enjoying a good season for Juve despite being linked with a move away from Turin, scoring 11 goals in 29 games in all competitions.<\/p>\n
The Argentina international is contracted until 2022, and Paratici said Juve had already started talks regarding a new deal for Dybala.<\/p>\n \n More teams<\/p>\n <\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “He’s the Juventus number 10. He is fundamental. We know what value he has and what he represents,” Paratici told DAZN <\/strong> before Juve’s 2-1 loss to Hellas Verona\u00a0in Serie A on Saturday.<\/p>\n “In the coming months, we will talk to him.<\/p>\n “We have already had some initial discussions before January and agreed to talk nearer to the end of the season.”<\/p>\n Juventus are top of the table and three points clear of Inter, who face AC Milan in a derby clash on Sunday.<\/p>\n Dybala was strongly linked with a move to Tottenham last summer with the player himself admitting recently just how close he was to leaving the reigning Serie A champions. <\/p>\n “I was close to leaving. That was in the club’s thinking, I knew. Until the last minute, we were waiting,” Dybala told The Guardian\u00a0in January.<\/p>\n “I have two years left on my contract. That’s not a short time but it’s not a long one either. We’ll see what plans Juventus have, if they think I might leave in the next market or if they want me to stay.<\/p>\n “That’s a decision for the club to make. It’s hard to know because things change in a second.<\/p>\n “But I’m here, at a club that has treated me well. I’m happy, comfortable. [Maurizio] Sarri’s arrival has helped. He wanted me to stay, which gave me strength when we didn’t know what would happen. I knew he could teach me, help me bring out the best in myself.”<\/p>\n While Sarri is a big fan of Dybala, he’s struggled at times to incorporate the Argentine into his starting side\u00a0this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cLeaving Paulo Dybala out is practically blasphemy, but we have so many strong attacking players and can\u2019t use them all at once,” Sarri said earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The balance of the team is essential and against Fiorentina, Gonzalo Higuain was more useful.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we were to use all four together, it would end up sacrificing many of the positive characteristics of these players. For example, it\u2019d be a waste to use Cristiano Ronaldo on the wing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Italian club are eager to lock down their star Argentine attacker by the end of the season Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici confirmed the Serie A giants had started contract talks with attacker Paulo Dybala. Dybala, 26, is enjoying a good season for Juve despite being linked with a move away from Turin, scoring…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}