Dybala’s sentence on Totti’s 10: the reasons for the refusal

ALBUFEIRA – Paulo Dybala’s melancholy unemployed status lasted only 18 days. The Argentine is a Roma player, with the blessing of Totti, with whom he spoke a few weeks ago. The Captain was one of his main sponsors, but he has nothing to do with the operation. A few hours were enough to clarify the yellow of the jersey number. Dybala will have the 21, as he asked just arrived yesterday in Portugal, the same as he had at Juventus. He has to thank Matic who gave it to him after taking it a few days ago, as soon as he arrived at Roma.
Yesterday a work of internal diplomacy was done to please Dybala, with Mourinho who spoke with Matic to ask him for “the favor”. The midfielder who comes from Manchester did not pose any problems, he immediately changed to meet his new teammate and took the 8th. Totti would have been happy if Dybala had taken his shirt. But Paulo’s orientation was different. He decided not to take that heavy number that belonged to the Captain, but to opt once again for 21. «I have to deserve Totti’s shirtHe said upon arrival in Portugal. Maybe who knows, next season, if things go as the fans hope, the 10 could end up on his shoulders. For now he remains on the bulletin board.

Spectator in the stands

This evening Roma will be engaged in Faro in the third friendly match against Sporting Lisbon (at 9 pm, live Dazn). Dybala will be in the stands to see his new teammates at work. The official presentation should take place in Rome towards the end of the month. Probably the fans will be able to see him for the first time at work at the Olimpico in the match that will be played against Shakhtar Donetsk on Sunday 7 August. But even before that Dybala could make a piece of the match in the last friendly match in Portugal, scheduled for Saturday against Nice and try the first schemes with his team-mates in the test scheduled for next week in Trigoria against Ascoli, between Wednesday and Thursday.

Work program

Dybala will have a single room in the hotel. Among the new teammates Spinazzola is the only one with whom he played in the brief experience of the full-back at Juventus. Maurizio Lombardo, the sports secretary, welcomed him into the hotel with great enthusiasm, he was a great admirer of him when he was Juventus manager.
Meanwhile, Mourinho’s staff has prepared the work program for the newcomer to bring him as soon as possible to the level of his teammates who have been training for almost two weeks now. Already today, as soon as the signing of the contract is formalized, he should carry out the first personalized training session at the Albufeira stadium, while his teammates will be preparing for the match scheduled for the evening against Sporting Lisbon. His arrival has made the Giallorossi fans crazy with joy in Italy, while here in the Algarve the few present Dybala has not yet met them. He will immediately get to work, even if in these days as an unemployed he had restarted his re-athletization in Turin with the personal staff that follows him. Upon returning to Italy, he will stay in a hotel for the first few days, before setting out in search of his Roman residence.