There are so much nonsense around Paulo. Lets compare Benzema and Suarez performance, their team asked them to try to find CR7 or Lio like first option even when their instict could be finished by themselves, they do it that for such a long time and then people starts to talk shit about how they are underperforming
Paulo started this season in fire but fatty was clearly out of form. Max focus all his tactics in recovering Pipa's shape, Paulo started to go a lot more into our MF and after two missed penalties, he started to lose his confindence and considering how many time Max mention those penalties IMO has a lot to do with Paulo Block mind.
Allegri had been kind of an asshole with some players in here (Paulo, Pjanic, Morata, Rugani) and overprotected others (Mandzo, Pipa, MDS, Asa, Stu). Now Max needs to help Dybala to recover the confidence he did so much to destroy. For instance, CR7+Benzema had 2 goals in first 12 games and Zizou didn't say any shit about them, thats how you know your coach believe in you