Sergej Milinković Savić has been waiting for him in Riyadh for some time, but Aleksandar Mitrović may not even go to Saudi Arabia in the end – at least not this summer. There is more and more information indicating that the Serbian striker could stay at Craven Cottage, and the latest is that Mitrović has returned to Fulham team training.The best scorer in the history of the Serbian national team has been explicit that he wants to continue his career in the Middle East practically since the offer arrived at his address, which Mozzart Sport Kenya exclusively announced. However, the London club was not satisfied with the financial conditions. They rejected the first offer worth 30,000,000 euros, then the second one of 40,000,000, pointing out that without 60,000,000 euros the Cottagers will not let go of the scorer of 14 Premier League goals last season. And since then – everything has been a secret. For ten days now, there has been no news about the progress in the negotiations between the two clubs.🗣️ Marco Silva on Mitrovic. “It’s a process and it’s not an easy situation. Mitro knows my opinion on what is the best way to do things. It’s true the last two days he’s been working with the group and let’s hope to see him as fit as we can… pic.twitter.com/NvlbWzVGQW— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) July 29, 2023 Dissatisfied with the price that they put on him, Mitrović allegedly told people in his environment that he would never play for Fulham again, he even thought about not going with the team on the American tour, so even though he went in the end, he trained separately from the team. In the meantime, Fulham brought him a replacement in the form of Raul Jimenez, just in case, but as things stand, they won’t need it, because the Serbian goalscorer joined the team training.”Yes, Mitrovic is back. It’s a process and the situation is not easy. I’m not here to talk about negotiations and clubs that are linked with him. I’m here to talk about my players. Yes, he’s in a group with other players. We hope that we will be able to ‘prepare’ him as best as possible in the next few days,” confirmed the coach of the London club Marco Silva at a conference ahead of tonight’s friendly clash with Chelsea, Fulham’s last on the American tour.##EDITORS_CHOICE##Contrary to the inscriptions of certain media, the Portuguese expert, who himself rejected an offer from Saudi Arabia worth 40,000,000 euros, claims that the 28-year-old attacker, despite his dissatisfaction, did not cause problems in the previous period.”It was never difficult for me to work with Mitrovic. Never, never, never… Many people say that he has an aura around him, but people who know him know that he was never a problem. We have to be honest with him. It was so easy to work with him is at the beginning of the pre-season and will continue to be if he stays. Mitrović knows me, and I know him very well. He knows the group we work with. Everything we said to each other will remain between me and him.”##NAJAVA_MECA_7400592##That Mitrović is further away from Al Hilal is also suggested by the rumors that the Saudi club has embarked on a campaign for new names. On Saturday, Madrid’s AS wrote that the club from Riyadh is preparing an offer for Sevilla’s Youssef En Nesyri, while the French team claims that the Saudis want a much bigger ‘fish’ – Victor Osimhen.Since Kylian Mbappe told them NO, the leaders of Al Hilal have reportedly started negotiations with the Nigerian attacker and will try to bring him in, which will be a very complex task, L’Equipe points out. Because even though he himself knows that he will not get the financial conditions that Al Hilal would offer him anywhere in Europe, at only 24 years old, the Napoli striker is leaning towards staying in Europe.
