All eyes are on Florence, Italy and the future of Serbian talented striker Dusan Vlahovic, but the club boss Rocco Commisso is also working on strengthening other positions on the pitch. Thus, according to several reports, the January arrival of Lille’s winger Jonathan Ikone has already been agreed.Almost all relevant sources from Italy and France, state that Viola will pay around 17 million USD for the 23-year-old French footballer of Congolese descent with Lille also having a percentage of the player’s next transfer.Scouts have filed glowing recommendations – Fikayo getting an understudy from MonacoIkone did not develop as most expected. In the first season with Lille, after being brought from PSG for 5.5 million USD, he scored three goals and had 11 assists, in the second he stopped at four goals-seven assists, and this season – seven scored goals and seven which he set up for his teammates. During the ongoing campaign, however – a goal and an assist each.Fiorentina’s first pick was Sassuolo’s Domenico Berardi, but as Neroverdi did not even want to talk about anything less than 34 million USD, Fiorentina’s sports director Daniele Prade turned his attention to Ikone and apparently finished the job pretty quickly.Sun, 14.30: (2.65) BOLOGNA (3.30) FIORENTINA (2.85)RB Leipzig were also interested in the France international, but the Tuscans have reportedly used their pole position.Some of Ikone’s former teammates, such as Mike Maignan and Victor Osimhen, moved to Serie A from Lille to join Milan and Napoli over the last few years.As for Vlahovic, Italian media keep fixating that Juventus, Arsenal and Tottenham are most interested.Sat, 21.00: (1.50) LILLE (4.30) TROYES (7.75)
