The most popular player in Serie A this season is 21-year-old centre-forward Vlahovic, who plays for Fiorentina. He scored 19 goals and provided two assists in 23 games to push Italy international striker Inmobile to lead the Serie A top scorers list. Strong physical fitness, excellent foot skills and first-class shooting are impressive, in this era of excellent center shortage, Vlahović naturally won the favor of many European giants, which also made the young him start to be a little fluttery to a certain extent.
Vlahović's contract with Fiorentina expires in the summer of 2023, and Purple Lily is very eager to complete the renewal with him, but the latter's agent team has offered a renewal condition of 350,000 euros a week salary + 8.5 million euros signing fee, so that the Fiorentina director is angry and scolded: "The longer you are in the football world, the more you can encounter outrageous things, it is a mess." ”
In fact, there's a reason Purple Lily is so angry, in the summer of 2018, Fiorentina used 1.9 million euros to bring the then 18-year-old Vlahović to the Apennines, and during his time at Purple Lily U19, Vlahović was given 10 first-team appearances, and in his second Serie A season, he made 34 appearances and scored 8 goals to start his career.
In other words, it was Florence who gave him a chance to soar, and Vlahović should be grateful to his old club. But now that he has made a little name for himself, Vlahović has begun to dislike his team. The weekly salary of 350,000 euros + the signing fee of 8.5 million euros is obviously to tell the financial florence that you can't afford this salary, so let me go quickly.
In today's German-turn market, Vlahović's value has skyrocketed to 70 million euros, a price that is almost 37 times higher than the 1.9 million euros when Purple Lily introduced him, and if he is sold at this price, Florence will make a lot of money. And they also know that their little temple can't accommodate the fast-growing Serbian center, who left sooner or later, but now it's so ugly that no one expected it.
The reason why Haaland is still sought after by many European giants at a high price and does not hesitate to offer him a staggering super high annual salary is because the Norwegian center not only scored in the Bundesliga, but also scored on the high-level stage of the Champions League, and the data of 23 goals in 20 games is already super first-class center level. Compared to Haaland, Vlahović only had two better seasons in Serie A, but due to Fiorentina's quality problems, Vlahović did not have a chance to be tested in Europe, and his only European experience was in the 2016/17 season, when he played 45 minutes off the bench for Partizan Belgrade in the Europa League.
Therefore, today's Vlahović does not have enough personal data to sell like Haaland, and the European giants are more like a failed B plan to introduce Haaland. At this time, he was impatient to break up with his old owner, and he and his team of agents were simply too naïve.