Paulo Dybala has seemingly always been destined for great things. After all, he was born in the same Argentinian province, Cordoba, as Javier Pastore, Pablo Aimar and Franco Vazquez.
Expectation has always followed him.
For a long time, bold predictions about his potential have been made. Back in November 2014, the President of Dybala’s then-club Palermo, Maurizio Zamparini, told Mediaset (h/t Nick Dorrington for ESPN FC): “Within two years, he's going to be better than Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. It would take €40 million to take him away from us”.