Paulo Dybala signs contract extension with Juventus until 2022

"Juventus Football Club is pleased to announce that Paulo Dybala has renewed his contract until 30 June 2022, extending a journey that began in July 2015," read a statement on the club's website.

Dybala, 23, joined the Turin club in 2015 for a fee of €32 million.

"I've always just wanted to succeed in everything that I do and I know that Juventus is the perfect place to be if you want to win things,” Dybala told the club’s official website.

The 23-year-old is arguably the most exciting player to have come out of Argentina since Lionel Messi and managed to upstage the five-times world player of the year as he led Juventus to an emphatic 3-0 win in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.

Although his diminutive stature, speed and trickery have sometimes led to comparisons with Messi, Dybala has made a slower start to his career.

He began playing professionally as a 17-year-old at Cordoba club Insituto in the Argentine second tier, the same age at which Messi was already with Barcelona.

He then moved to Palermo, which is often seen as a stepping-stone club for South Americans moving to Europe, and joined Juventus at the start of last season.