Alvaro Morata, who wears it on the 9, at this point risks going to the bench more often than before. But beyond the roles, the one who risks the most after Vlahovic’s arrival is Paulo Dybala, even if someone who plays in Juventus with number 10 like him should not be in any danger.

Still without the renewal of the contract, promised but then frozen by the Juventus leaders, Dybala has already gone into the background in the media this week in which only the great reinforcement of Juventus was spoken of. An anonymous week and in the end even sadder for the Argentine, after the death of the former Palermo president, Maurizio Zamparini, the first to believe in his qualities and the most convinced admirer of him.

If not for him, who in any case will continue to applaud him from above, at this point Dybala must prove to everyone that Max Allegri was right last summer to put him at the center of his project, entrusting him with the "future captain" band, with the overtaking of the degraded Leonardo Bonucci, "deputy" only of the undisputed leader Giorgio Chiellini.

Maurizio Arrivabene, Juventus new CEO, said that in February we will talk about his contract and that of his other teammates and this is a statement that has already indirectly lowered Dybala to the level of the "others", without guaranteeing him any precedence . A very clear choice to make Dybala understand that they are all the same, even if for his class and his talent the Argentinian should be worth a little more than the others.

At this point, therefore, it is up to him to prove it, because he does not lack technical and character qualities. And indeed the presence of a real goalscorer like Vlahovic could favor him, highlighting his skills as an atypical striker, capable of unmarking the new center forward and at the same time shining, together with him, as a second striker or finisher behind him.

Dybala could therefore reconstitute with Vlahovic an attacking tandem similar to the historic and winning one composed by Omar Sivori and John Charles at the end of the 1950s. Among other things, Dybala is Argentine like Sivori with his own number 10, while Vlahovic is not Welsh like Charles but equally strong physically and like him able to win the top scorer.

And at that point, if the new couple worked, no one could question Dybala anymore, accusing him of being discontinuous and not very decisive in the games that matter. This is why Vlahovic, after having indirectly overshadowed him, could help him return to being a protagonist, in the common interest of Juventus. But above all that's why the ball, in every sense, now passes to Dybala.

Now or never, in short, to win back Juventus, winking at the upcoming UEFA Champions League. Because fourth place in the championship is the minimum goal for those who aim for the maximum. Like the latest Vlahovic and even more so like Dybala who joined Juventus before him.