{"id":601635,"date":"2021-09-13T06:09:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=601635"},"modified":"2021-09-13T06:09:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:09:01","slug":"dusan-vlahovic-wants-fiorentina-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/09\/13\/dusan-vlahovic-wants-fiorentina-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusan Vlahovic Wants Fiorentina Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano reports that Dusan Vlahovic want to stay at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/26\/fiorentina-reach-agreement-with-real-madrid-for-alvaro-odriozola-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Fiorentina<\/a>\u00a0following interest in the summer transfer window from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/09\/11\/nuno-espirito-santo-facing-early-defensive-headache-at-tottenham-hotspur\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur <\/a>and Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Du\u0161an Vlahovic has scored 20 goals in 21 Serie A matches in 2021. Born in 2000. \ud83d\udfe3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vlahovic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Vlahovic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham were interested this summer, Atletico Madrid offered \u20ac60m plus % on future sale: Fiorentina and Vlahovic with his agent said no.<\/p>\n<p>New contract talks are currently underway. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S664FHoSMb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/S664FHoSMb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1436791854654164993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Vlahovic Wants Fiorentina Stay<\/h2>\n<h3>Striker Looking for New Contract<\/h3>\n<p>During the summer transfer window, Fiorentina striker Vlahovic was the subject of interest from both Tottenham and Atletico Madrid, with the player eventually remaining in Serie A, and, now the player wants to end future speculation by signing a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Valahovic grabbed a brace in a recent 2-1 victory over Atalanta with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribalfootball.com\/articles\/fiorentina-s-2-goal-vlahovic-my-decision-to-stay-4385568\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tribalfootball.com<\/a>\u00a0quoting the player\u2019s desire to stay, with Vlahovic stating that he never wanted to leave:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said many times that I decided to stay in Florence, nobody else had to decide for me. When the coach arrived, and the squad we put together, it&#8217;s good. At the end of the season, we will see if it proved to be the right decision, but I followed my heart. I am young, my moment will come and I just need to continue working like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Dusan Vlahovic: Penalty Hero Last Time Out<\/h3>\n<p>The game with Atalanta was marked with controversy as VAR took centre stage with the home team having a goal disallowed before Vlahovic clinched the three points with two penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Dusan Vlahovic told <a href=\"https:\/\/sport.sky.it\/calcio\/serie-a\/2021\/09\/12\/30-gol-serie-a-piu-giovani-classifica\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports Italia <\/a>that he has been impressed with manager Vincenzo Italiano and he has been a major factor in his desire to remain in <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/vlahovic-i-decided-to-stay-at-fiorentina\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florence<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always believed in this team, from the moment we started working with the coach. We are just at the beginning, we must keep working hard, listening to the boss, being a team and then we can do great things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romano has confirmed that talks are now taking place between club and player and Fiorentina\u2019s refusal to entertain the \u20ac60 million offer from Atletico in the summer looks to have paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"DPmYqOQlTL15KDIfwI4akw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1339710934\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'DPmYqOQlTL15KDIfwI4akw',sig:'xmeErewUgwZt6jGIOmqw_gKqa6paYhMFdaO6W18RwbM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1339710934',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano reports that Dusan Vlahovic want to stay at\u00a0Fiorentina\u00a0following interest in the summer transfer window from Tottenham Hotspur and Atletico Madrid. Du\u0161an Vlahovic has scored 20 goals in 21 Serie A matches in 2021. Born in 2000. \ud83d\udfe3 #Vlahovic Tottenham were interested this summer, Atletico Madrid offered \u20ac60m plus % on future sale: Fiorentina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":601646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,1],"tags":[8500,111],"class_list":["post-601635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-dusan-vlahovic","tag-fiorentina"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}