Palermo star Paulo Dybala on potential Barcelona move: 'I would swim there'

Most players would jump at the opportunity to make a move to Barcelona. Paulo Dybala is willing to go one step further.

"I would swim to Barcelona," he told Argentine radio station Radio Belgrano, according to Corriere della Sera. "It's only just across the Mediterranean after all." 

The prodigious Palermo striker, 21, has rocketed up the ranks as one of the most sought-after players in Europe this season, thanks to a series of dazzling displays that has many of the continent's top clubs drooling.

Club president Maurizio Zamparini has long maintained that Dybala, who has scored 12 goals and added 7 assists on the season thus far, will sign elsewhere this summer - in the process likely netting the Sicilian side a transfer fee in the €40-million range.

Paris Saint-Germain and a handful of Premier League sides have been suggested as potential suitors for the skillful attacker, but if he had his wish, it seems the Camp Nou would be Dybala's preferred destination.

- With translation from ESPN FC