Dusan Vlahovic made the change to Juventus final 12 months, having established himself as one of the vital prolific strikers in European soccer.
The Serbian had a stellar spell at Fiorentina, and Juventus had been monitoring him for a substantial period of time earlier than making their transfer.
Because it seems, they weren’t the one membership pursuing him. Arsenal was amongst their rivals within the race to safe his signature.
The Gunners made a powerful effort to accumulate the Serbian, however he in the end opted to affix Turin and play for essentially the most distinguished membership in Serie A.
Since his arrival at Juve, his contributions have been well-received, however there’s now hypothesis that he might have moved to Barcelona a lot earlier, probably for a smaller switch payment.
Former Barcelona striker turned membership scout, Bojan KrKic, has just lately disclosed that that they had the chance to signal him effectively prior to now.
He stated, as quoted by Tuttomercatoweb:
“We had the potential for signing Vlahovic at Barça. He performed very effectively for Fiorentina, he had already made his debut for the primary crew and scored.
“He was solely price 12 million on the time and it was an amazing deal. There was a gathering with coach Koeman and the sporting administrators, however it was discarded. In fact, they thought that he wasn’t a lot, that he didn’t have such a excessive degree for the Barcelona of the longer term.”
Juve FC Says
Vlahovic has proven actual expertise even earlier than he moved to Italy, so it’s hardly a shock that high golf equipment scouted him for a very long time.
We’re fortunate he selected to play for us as a result of he might simply have joined one other crew if he needed.
