The Evening Standard suggests this morning that Aleksandar Mitrovic ‘will push’ to leave Fulham this summer even if his big-money move to Saudi Arabia falls through.
The Serbian striker trained with his team-mates on the final three days of Fulham’s pre-season tour and Marco Silva remains determined to keep him at Craven Cottage. Al-Hilal, who turned the forward’s head with an offer to treble his salary, have moved onto other targets having proven unable to match Fulham’s £52m valuation and the Standard’s Nizaar Kinsella reports that the unsettled number nine is still hoping to leave SW6 before the end of the summer transfer window.
The major issue with that position is that all interested parties have baulked at Fulham’s asking price for the 28 year-old. Mitrovic’s agent, Pini Zahavi, is working overtime to try and find a solution and offered his client to Inter Milan this weekend but the Nerazzurri – whose financial difficulties saw them default on their stadium payments earlier this month – would neither be able to afford Fulham’s asking price or match Mitrovic’s current salary.
That’s best for both parties, so long as someone pays the going rate. I don’t really understand the hesitance in today’s market to get close to £50m for a proven number 9.
Disappointing, but expected. Time to start looking at Beto/Balogun. Missed the boat on Gyokores, should pulled the trigger for a cheap 22mil.
So much for him saying he is happy and loves the club yes it would be best to sell him for as much as we can get and bring in another good striker from the money from his sale and not some cheap excuse Tony Khan.
Can we double his salary and keep him instead of buying a new striker, which we would spend millions and might be a flop, we know what mitrovic is capable to do
We don’t want a player who doesn’t want to stay. It would (already has) the morale of the rest of the team. Get him gone ASAP.
He can guy loads of diapers with his move. What a giant man baby.