It’s been settled! Juventus won the race to sign Serbian hitman Dusan Vlahovic for a fee of around $76 million with another $4 million of potential future add-ons. It’s a fantastic ending to the long-standing transfer saga for the strong attacker and for the Turin club, who ensured a quality player to lead their forward line for a decade.Juventus will submit an official proposal in the next hours to sign Vlahović immediately. Talks ongoing. ⭐️🇷🇸 #VlahovicIt’s now up to Dusan. In case he joins Juventus, Álvaro Morata would be an option for Barcelona again. Morata would be still open to join Barça. Let’s see. pic.twitter.com/gBpYBiJ0Zy— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 24, 2022 The end of the prolonged transfer speculation is good news for Vlahovic himself, of course, because he’s joining one of the most powerful clubs in world football – and he’s doing so for a reported $8 million annual salary. Now he can commit himself to football alone and be ready to shine for his country at the World Cup in Qatar later this year.Fiorentina initially put a price tag of $90 million on their prized asset, but they’ve gotten nervous as the January transfer window went on. With five days to go, they agreed to sell one of the best players in Serie A before he enters the final year of his contract and while they’ve still got a good negotiating position. In the end, they still got a very good price indeed for the youngster that cost them just over $2 million three and a half years ago.Wednesday, 19.00: (2.30) Ivory Coast (3.05) Egypt (3.80)The deal to bring Vlahovic to Juventus Stadium has enraged Fiorentina’s hard-core supporters. Ever since the speculation surrounding the player, who will only turn 22 later this week, Viola ultras felt betrayed by the striker’s reluctance to commit his future to the Stadio Artemio Franchi outfit. As rumours of interest from Arsenal, Milan, Juventus and a host of other clubs started to filter through, Fiorentina’s passionate fans started to boo their best player. In the city of Firenze, they value loyalty over quality and they couldn’t accept the fact that a player would want to play anywhere else.The ultras were already angry with Vlahovic, but the revelation of his next club has made them go berserk. There isn’t a club the Viola fans hate more than they hate Juventus, so seeing their player move to Turin is unacceptable. That’s why they left threatening messages around Firenze.”Not even your bodyguards will save you! Gipsy, it’s over for you! Vlahovic, you Gipsy piece of sh*t!”A Firenze tifosi infuriati. #Vlahovic @tvdellosport #sportitaliamercato pic.twitter.com/AoU4UmpfR3— Michele Criscitiello (@MCriscitiello) January 25, 2022 It’s common practice that Italian racists use the derogatory term “Gipsy” for all Slavs – Serbians in particular. They are beyond angry, but the lack of respect for the man who scored 49 goals in 107 for their club is astounding.In the wake of Vlahovic’s move, Barcelona could again try to lure striker Alvaro Morata from Juventus, while Arsenal will have to put many late shifts after seeing their alleged number one transfer target end up at another club.As for Dusan – he’ll continue to score goals for fun in the black and white shirt of the Old Lady.
