At some point, there won’t be any time left for Juventus’ front office and management team to kick the can down the road. The season has just about two months left, and while contracts will have another six weeks tacked onto them until the end of June, there’s only a certain amount of time left for Juventus to renew the soon-to-be expiring contracts.
One of those players’ future may have already been decided.
And it’s the most notable name of them all.
According to Friday’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Juventus are prepared to let star striker Paulo Dybala, the biggest name of all those players with contracts expiring in June, walk come the summer transfer window. That means, the contract extension watch that we’ve been under for the better part of the last two years will, at long last, come to an end — albeit not with the kind of end result that many Juve supporters won’t be all that in favor of seeing go down.
Now, this is the first kind of reporting that says Juventus will part with Dybala — and, by the way, La Gazzetta adds that they’re targeting the likes of Jorginho, Paul Pogba and Antonio Rudiger this coming summer — so who knows how much is behind it.
But, with that being said, this is something that has been drawn out for months and the likelihood of Dybala leaving only grows by the day with no contract extension signed or even a meeting scheduled. This is not a case like Juan Cuadrado where a new deal seems only routine and is basically a given knowing how little drama there is surrounding the Colombian’s contract extension.