Liverpool’s latest piece of transfer gossip has seen them linked with Paulo Dybala.
The Juventus forward has been linked with a move to the Premier League before, and this time it’s the turn of the Redd to be credited with an interest.
Italian news outlet Tutto Mercato, via Inside Futbol , Liverpool are keeping tabs on Dybala’s contract situation at Juve.
The 28-year-old’s contract with the Serie A giants is due to expire at the end of the season, and the report states that Liverpool are exploring the possibility of signing the playmaker on a free transfer.
However, it has also been claimed that Dybala is set to meet with his representatives and the Serie A giants to sort out his future.
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Dybala has been a key player for Juventus ever since he joined the club from Palermo in the summer of 2015.
Despite almost immediately becoming a star for Juventus, rumours quickly surfaced that he could move to the Premier League.
The summer of 2017 saw Dybala linked with Manchester United, a year after his former team-mate Paul Pogba moved to Old Trafford.
Even though it was the first time he’d been seriously linked with a move away from Juventus, Dybala went on record saying that he couldn’t guarantee he would remain at the club for the long term.
“I can’t promise I will stay at Juventus forever,” Dybala told France Football in 2017.
“It doesn’t depend on me but I don’t even want to say that this will be my last season here.
“I want to win everything now, football’s strange, you never really know what will happen in the future.
“But right now I do not say to myself ‘this is my last year and I am leaving’, I think of the present and try to win everything.”
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That was nearly five years ago, and since then Dybala has helped the club win five Serie A titles, four Italian Cups and three Italian Super Cups - scoring 111 goals in 277 appearances.
The summer of 2019 saw Dybala once again linked with a move to the Premier League, with a £64m switch to Tottenham Hotspur supposedly on the cards.
Even though both parties were supposedly keen on a deal, Dybala ended up remaining at Juventus.
Fast forward to the present and there future of Dybala is once again a talking point as his contract at Juve runs down.
Speculation has grown this season over whether or not he will put pen to paper on an extension, with plenty of Juve fans becoming more nervous over the situation.
In November, it was reported by Calciomercato that Dybala had given a subtle hint that his future remains with Juventus.
The report states that Dybala attended the ATP Finals in Turin, and was in conversation with tennis player Alexander Zverev.
It has been claimed that Zverev asked Dybala if he would be in Turin in five years time when the finals returns to the city.
Dybala apparently replied: “Maybe, mayb...but I think if you come here in the next five years you will find me.”
More recently Dybala’s future was brought into question following Juventus’s win over Udinese earlier this month.
After scoring for the Italian club, Dybala was asked about his future - and he provided another hint that his future is likely to remain in Italy.
“Many things have happened...I prefer not to talk about it,” Dybala is quoted saying post-match, via Talksport .
“I’ve nothing to prove to anyone [to sign a new deal with Juventus]. The club has decided to talk with me in February or March. I’m here for the manager.”
All the signs point toward Dybala extending his stay with Juventus, but while a contract is yet to be signed and links with Liverpool persist then the rumours aren’t going to ease anytime soon.
