Yahoo Sports CM: Jovic’s fate seems sealed amid paradoxical situation – his possible destinations
Luka Jovic was given a contract extension and the No.9 shirt by AC Milan in the summer, and yet his fate seems more uncertain now that at any point before.
According to Calciomercato.com, Jovic is increasingly on the fringes of Milan’s project and destined to say goodbye perhaps as early is January. However, his situation is almost paradoxical and forces questions to be asked of the management.
In the summer the directors renewed his contract and gave him the prestigious No.9 shirt. Then, he started September as the third choice striker behind Alvaro Morata and Tammy Abraham, the two new signings. He was also excluded from the Champions League squad list.
Not helped by some back problems, Jovic has played 78 minutes in total in the first 11 games of the season, spread across three games: an hour in game one against Torino, a few minutes against Parma in game two, and just over a quarter of an hour against Lecce in game six.
Despite this, Serbia’s head coach Dragan Stojkovic called him up and used him in the two matches during the October break and he has been summoned for the games against Switzerland and Denmark this time too.
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With a salary of €2.5m net per season (€3.28m gross), Milan would like to offload Jovic. His agent Fali Ramadani is at work and while in recent weeks there has been talk of Juventus and Saudi Arabia as destinations, there are more avenues too.
Galatasaray are flying with Victor Osimhen, but are evaluating the possibility of getting another centre-forward after Mauro Icardi’s injury. Torino are also keen after Duvan Zapata’s issue, so he may well have multiple options to pick from.
