Dušan Vlahović

[SpartanSpur]

Promising update. Makes it sound like they are looking for replacements now, Paratici is hopefully ready to pounce.

 

[Ruffinthepuffin]

I know it’s not the be all and end all but I’d be personally be very, very disappointed if we now didn’t sign him.


I really think he’s going to be a brilliant player.

 

[robertgoulet]

Positivity Believe

 

[Duskwen]

if they've resigned to not renewing and are already thinking about replacements, then we may be able to get closer to the fee we want, as long as Atletico pull out, which some Spanish reports say they have

 

[barry]

He may be asking for higher wages as a way to not sign the contract or buy time so a club can come in and sign him.

Or just maybe he just wants higher wages

 

[luRRka]

[DiMarzio] Halt in negotiations between Fiorentina and Vlahovic for new contract. Demands of the player and agents are deemed to be too much and focus is now on Scamacca and Kean

From the article

Fiorentina had proposed a renewal for 3.5 million euros plus 500 thousand in easy bonuses, with an agreed clause of 80 million euros (70 million being the striker's request, 100 million that of Fiorentina).

Once close to the agreement, the player's entourage had then asked for 2.5 million in bonuses upon signing, for which there had been an opening.

The stalemate occurred when the agents asked for an exclusive mandate to sell the player next year, at the agreed value of the clause. In addition, they asked for 5% on the sale (if under 80 million) and 80% on the capital gain of the 80 million figure.

In summary: if Fiorentina were to sell the striker for 100 million, the agents, in case of an agreement, would get 80% of the 20 million capital gain. Moreover, Fiorentina had asked for a 5-year renewal, Vlahovic wanted a 4-year one. Atletico Madrid were also interested in the player, but also in this case the commissions requested were too high (8 million), with the Spaniards turning to Cunha of Hertha Berlin.

 

[Pochie]

From the article

Fiorentina had proposed a renewal for 3.5 million euros plus 500 thousand in easy bonuses, with an agreed clause of 80 million euros (70 million being the striker's request, 100 million that of Fiorentina).

Once close to the agreement, the player's entourage had then asked for 2.5 million in bonuses upon signing, for which there had been an opening.

The stalemate occurred when the agents asked for an exclusive mandate to sell the player next year, at the agreed value of the clause. In addition, they asked for 5% on the sale (if under 80 million) and 80% on the capital gain of the 80 million figure.

In summary: if Fiorentina were to sell the striker for 100 million, the agents, in case of an agreement, would get 80% of the 20 million capital gain. Moreover, Fiorentina had asked for a 5-year renewal, Vlahovic wanted a 4-year one. Atletico Madrid were also interested in the player, but also in this case the commissions requested were too high (8 million), with the Spaniards turning to Cunha of Hertha Berlin.

Is that all true? Who would leak such details?

 

[luRRka]

Is that all true? Who would leak such details?

I dunno. It's just from the article Di Marzio linked

 

[dtxspurs]

Is that all true? Who would leak such details?

His agent saying someone who will pay that to come get him

 

[Huddlebone]

Is that all true? Who would leak such details?

In italy they do things more open. journalists gets the info from the clubs, just look at how di marzio was like paraticis second mouth when he first joined around our transfers, but I think the club have told him to calm down with his leaks (his way of working) because right now both di marzio and romano goes on repeat.

 

[wiggo24]

No idea about reliability but there's a creepy looking chap on the link

 

[luRRka]

No idea about reliability but there's a creepy looking chap on the link

The article says we have to sell Kane first. It also says Vlahovic is 2000 years old

 

[robotsonic]

The article says we have to sell Kane first. It also says Vlahovic is 2000 years old

I thought that he looked beyond his years, but fuck me.

 

[Raitei]

Well, if Stanley Tucci says so

No idea about reliability but there's a creepy looking chap on the link

 

[ardiles]

The article says we have to sell Kane first. It also says Vlahovic is 2000 years old

So he could be a vampire and he real name might be Vlad?

 

[Univarn]

No idea about reliability but there's a creepy looking chap on the link

Seems a local paper so I am hopeful it is reliable but haven't been able to confirm.
(But also Italian papers outside the few major outlets are a tire fire so don't bet your life on it)

Google translate.

Vlahovic is always Fiorentina's hot topic and it couldn't be otherwise. It is obvious that between going and staying there are completely different scenarios to manage and in any case we turn them complicated a few hours after the start of the championship. Perhaps it was understood a little too late that the player had no desire to renew the contract, but that's another story.

Now things have substantially changed and Fiorentina knows that if the boy does not sign, it is better to sell him immediately without risking the depreciation of next summer or even the loss of the card (1st February 2023).

In short, even Rocco would have entered the order of ideas to sell for various reasons that we will explain later, the question is always the same: what is happening in these hours?

The concrete and detailed proposals that market intermediaries had undertaken to bring to the Viola executives around August 15th are awaited, once Fiorentina had made it clear that they were available to negotiate the sale on the basis of seventy million.

It is precisely on that figure that Tottenham seems to have settled where there is Paratici, director

Former Juventus sportsman, whom Vlahovic has always esteemed, but who also likes Milenkovic.

I'm talking about Tottenham because the interest seems to be coming from England for the two Serbian players of the viola.

The latest idea is to bring the Vlahovic-Milenkovic couple to London, offering Fiorentina a total of seventy million, sixty for the attacker and ten for the defender. This also explains the slowdown in the negotiations with West Ham which seemed to be on the finishing straight.

Tottenham has the problem Harry Kane who would like to go to Guardiola's City who has always courted him. After the break that seemed imminent, reflection took over, but the attacker trembles. Paratici has also been looking for a defender for some time and Milenkovic would have wanted him two years ago for Juve.

The offer is lower than the valuation made by Fiorentina which asks for seventy million for Vlahovic and for Milenkovic fifteen, but it has been understood that it is difficult to arrive at certain cash figures. Especially for Milenkovic expiring and therefore free to leave for zero euros in six months. His agent Ramadani was treating him at fifteen with West Ham but with a rich commission and Fiorentina's commitment to buy Nastasic, another player in his team. In this case, it would be ten million free from other constraints. Hello commissions, of course.

For Vlahovic, and this has also been understood, it is difficult to snatch the seventy million cash requested by Fiorentina.

All in all, Tottenham's seventy million could be an acceptable solution, only to insert various bonuses in the negotiation phase. We think and within a couple of days the answer will come.

The other pretender, Atletico from Madrid, who until last Saturday seemed to be the most advanced club in the negotiations for Vlahovic, came to offer sixty million plus the Argentine defender Perez valued at four million.

Faced with the cold reaction of Fiorentina, the Spaniards have decided to change their goal, at least in appearance. The attention of Cholo Simeone, who has always been in love with Vlahovic and a friend of Pradè, went to the Brazilian Cunha of Hertha in Berlin, formerly of Leipzig, who stood out in the recent Tokyo Olympics where he scored three goals. The Spaniards are in a hurry, they don't want to participate in an auction.

We will understand whether it is a strategy or a truth, but in the meantime other companies at the window (Arsenal) have also conveyed the message that over sixty million is still difficult to arrive even for a potential champion like Dusan Vlahovic.

What will Fiorentina do?

It is clear that times are tight. The championship starts on Sunday and there are two weeks of open market. The purple club tried again to convince Vlahovic to sign the renewal with a release clause last week when his agent Ristic was to see the friendly match with Espanyol, but given the difficulties, even Rocco seems to be convinced that the boy is not then so enthusiastic about Fiorentina (otherwise he would have signed) and for how things are going, maybe it is better to sell now if the requested millions arrive. Rocco has always reiterated that Vlahovic would remain under the contract that will expire in 2023, but evidently he has analyzed the situation better and with the approach of the deadline the depreciation could become high. The risk-Donnarumma around the corner.

And then also paying the player the four million plus bonuses assumed for the renewal could become destabilizing for the purple salary, but also for the locker room. There would be too much disproportion between the hiring of the Serbian boy and all the others, with the risk of a burst adjustment request. It is also difficult to think that Rocco will try one last face-to-face with the player given that the viola president will return to football only in Rome, on 22 August, just eight days after the market closes.

Tottenham's offer should be finalized in the next few hours, all that remains is to wait for Fiorentina's reaction. Perhaps the wait-and-see technique will prevail, the hope that in the last days of the market important companies that have been observing Vlahovic for some time will pay more to snatch him from the competition. The logic of the auction sometimes pays off, but it can also become risky.

The real problem, in fact, no longer seems to sell Vlahovic, but what to do a few days before the end of the market. I hope, as already written, that the managers of Fiorentina Barone-Pradè-Burdisso will not be caught unprepared and have the quick solutions ready.

Belotti, one of the names in circulation, is also lucky. Scamacca, born in 1999 from Sassuolo, does not thrill. Maybe they have a player in their hand who is secret right now.

For the rest, I don't think there will be any operations that go beyond the fifth winger that the Italian (Orsolini?) Or the classic director wants, even if Leo Sena has stopped due to a physical problem.

The Lirola case remains, another embarrassing situation. In two and a half months nothing has come of it, one way or the other. But is it possible? Even not, especially in a phase like this with the team to be built on new foundations. How long will Udinese and Chelsea wait for Stryger Larssen or Zappacosta?

Nastasic, as we know, is linked to Milenkovic and his agent, but in the meantime what are they waiting for with Pezzella, do they want him to be released at zero, do they sell him or renew him?

Questions now with the cobwebs above.

In the meantime, however, something important happened in the 4-0 against Cosenza. Beyond the modest opponent and the result, finally after three years Fiorentina played as a team, with personality, with ideas, we saw offensive and brilliant football, organized football. And we must acknowledge that in a month the Italian coach has done a great job. The most pleasant feeling is to see the group following him, he wants to do something new, he plays while having fun and that's not a small thing.

Obviously we are just at the beginning, that the players have to grow physically and the understanding has to improve a lot, the quality will go up with some additions, but the football base has been thrown away and it seems solid. The first real game of the season was good, now we are waiting for confirmation and improvements, but if this is the way, the public returning to the stadium will see a brilliant Fiorentina.

 

[tony_parkes]

Sam Lee is a waffle merchant as well.

i concur, he’s fat he’s round he’s worth a million pound sammy lee, he’s fat he’s round be bounces on the ground sammy lee

 

[robotsonic]

It all sounds worryingly promising if that write-up is half true. Amazing though if Atletico are going to turn and run at the sight of a bidding war with us...who also run off at the sight of a bidding war. Easiest/only bidding war ever won by us?

Just hope that the Arse don't find some cash as he signed for them in my FM save and is a sodding pain there as it is.

 

[robertgoulet]

I don’t think Milenkovic is any better than Sanchez but if we can get him for 15-20 and sell Sanchez for 30-40 I’m on board if it means Vlahovic coming too.

 

[Living Legend Colm G]

The article says we have to sell Kane first. It also says Vlahovic is 2000 years old

Still younger than Leandro Damaio