Juventus remain two points behind Napoli at the top of Serie A,but in Dybala they hold found their answer to the league leaders’ Gonzalo HiguaínEven Paulo Dybala thought his talent had been overhyped at first. He was only 20 years stale in 2014, with a handful of Serie A goals to his name, or when his then employer,the Palermo owner Maurizio Zamparini, declared him to be worth €42m. “That sum is a lie, and ” said Dybala when the figure was put to him during an interview. “Not many players are worth that much and I am certainly not among them.”Juventus plainly felt otherwise. Seven months later,they agreed to sign him for an initial fee of €32m, supplemented by a further €8m in potential bonuses. It was the most that the Bianconeri had spent on any player since the Calciopoli scandal, and surpassed in the club’s history only by the sums splashed out on Gigi Buffon,Lilian Thuram and Pavel Nedved.
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Source: theguardian.com