Sky Sport Italia transfer market expert Gianluca Di Marzio believes that Inter will not sign Paulo Dybala this summer, and that the Argentine will likely move to a club outside of the top tier in Europe and have to take a pay cut.
Speaking to German news outlet Wettfreunde.net, Di Marzio predicted that the Nerazzurri have exited the race for Dybala after prioritizing a move for Romelu Lukaku, whilst he also reports that with any of the clubs currently interested in signing him, the 28-year-old may be forced to accept lower wages than he is expecting.
Inter made no secret of their interest in Dybala virtually from the moment that it was confirmed that he will be leaving Juventus on a free transfer this summer.
However, the Nerazzurri have not managed to complete a deal to bring him in this summer despite having looked very close at one point, and now the player’s future is uncertain.
“It’s difficult to say where he’ll end up because Inter had the chance to sign him, but then they prioritized getting a deal done for Lukaku who was their first choice,” Di Marzio said. “So Inter pulled out.”
“Milan and Roma can only enter the race when he decides to lower his wage requests,” he went on, “but at the moment neither of them have made a move.”
“There’s Manchester United if Ronaldo were to leave,” Di Marzio reported. “But they’re looking for a Number Nine, and if they signing Dybala they would have to change their style of play.”
Di Marzio explained of Dybala that “He’s on the list of other clubs like Sevilla, but not top clubs, and Dybala only wants a top club.”
“But the truth is that no top Premier League or La Liga club wants Dybala,” he stated. “Manchester City, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, PSG, and Bayern Munich, the six biggest teams in Europe, all have other plans.”
“Liverpool brought Nunez, Bayern got Mane,” he noted. “Dybala was not at the top of their wish lists.”
“Now he’s in a situation where he probably has to change his plans,” Di Marzio said of the Argentine. “He’ll probably have to play for a weaker team and earn less money because he doesn’t have a team yet.”
“It will probably change the way he looks at his future,” he noted. “He hasn’t yet found a club that’s willing to offer him the net €6 million a year he’s asking for. He wanted more, but now he wants €6 million.”
“It is a strange situation, an incredible situation in the transfer market,” Di Marzio said. “A player of the Dybala’s quality being without a team.”
“He thought that he could earn 50% more by moving out of contract, but he’ll end up earning 50% less,” he predicted. “Something has changed this summer. A revolution is underway because in the past a player like Dybala would have signed for a new club back in February.”
