Doesn't matter. We are swapping one unwanted player for another. Both are unwanted at their respective clubs.
This is just poor business tbh. You give him the #10, make him your golden boy and then swap him for Lukaku a couple of years later without even giving him an opportunity to see what he can do under a new manager.
This entire situation reflects very poorly on the Juventus management
I agree 100% the optics are bad. Giving him the #10 to let him go. But it also was a rash decision and very kneejerk. He showed great class when we first signed him but things changed when we signed Ronaldo and he wasn't the centerpiece of our attack suddenly. I think the optics are awful for our management, no doubt.
But Dybala did himself no favors. He fell apart, his confidence collapsed and he barely looked the part of a backup striker. He was muscled off of every ball, lost possession constantly and his individual performances were AWFUL. The individual performances have nothing to do with Allegri's system that failed us. That was 80-90% on Dybala. He looked awful. Shit, there were times last year where he exhibited the same THE EXACT SAME first touch that people mocking Lukaku for. He lost possession constantly last year, especially in the final third. That's not a system failure. That's an individual performance failure. And it wasn't a one-time thing last year. It was constant to the point he wasn't even considered an option in attack and yet people were like "put Dybala in" only for him to get a chance a few matches later and bungle possession or play 75 minutes with no shots, no goals, and turnovers like crazy.
In the Allegri system where we were starved for creative attackers Dybala played HIMSELF out of the system. Think about that. We were starved for creativity and attacking prowess and Dybala played himself out of the system.