When Florentino Perez wants something he usually gets his hands on it. Admittedly at the moment the Real Madrid transfer guru has to wait for the summer but he's determined to go Paulo Dybala.
After some dodgy deals with signing players under 18 Los Blancos are currently serving a one transfer window ban, like Barcelona did last year.
The ban was originally two windows, which would have taken Real out of the reckoning in the summer, but unlike their La Liga rivals they were able to appeal the ban and get it reduced to one window.
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Dybala is hot property at the moment. As well as Real wanting him Barcelona have already had an offer turned down and Juve have offered him an as yet unsigned new deal.
According to the Sun the Champions League champions have already made an offer of £77 million plus Alvaro Morata, a bid that was turned down.
It's a pretty cheeky bid from the Bernabeu club considering Morata was a Juve player up until the summer when Real decided to buy him back with their buy back clause, only to try and use him for the Old Lady's new number 10.
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According to the report the Serie A champions responded to the initial offer from Spain asking for Toni Kroos or Luka Modric on top of the offer for Dybala.
Unsurprisingly that negotiation didn't get accepted by Perez but there's no doubt that he'll be back with improved offers, just to stop Barca getting the player.