{"id":604931,"date":"2021-12-02T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=604931"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:37:20","slug":"fiorentina-transfer-news-president-sends-dusan-vlahovic-reminder-jonathan-ikone-accepts-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/02\/fiorentina-transfer-news-president-sends-dusan-vlahovic-reminder-jonathan-ikone-accepts-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiorentina Transfer News: President Sends Du\u0161an Vlahovi\u0107 Reminder, Jonathan Ikon\u00e9 Accepts Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Du\u0161an Vlahovi\u0107 is one of the most in-form players in he world right now. And, as a result, he has attracted several admirers. The Fiorentina transfer news is certainly heating up. It feels inevitable that a player of Vlahovi\u0107\u2018s calibre, and of his young age of 21, will eventually swap the elegance of Florence for the excitement of Champions League football elsewhere. For now, however, he remains a \u2018Viola\u2019 player &#8211; as club president Rocco Commisso\u00a0has reminded us.<\/p>\n<p>The president recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fabrizioromano\/status\/1466399535450755077?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told Tutti Convocati<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t know if Juventus are able to sign Vlahovic in January. But I wanna say to Juventus or Arsenal that we [Fiorentina] are the \u2018owners\u2019 of Vlahovic. They should open talks with us &#8211; not with his agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The focus isn\u2019t just on potential outgoings, though. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fabrizioromano\/status\/1466162021095940102?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, Jonathan Ikon\u00e9 has accepted Fiorentina\u2019s proposal, with the Lille midfielder set to complete the move worth \u00a315 million in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<h2>Fiorentina Transfer News<\/h2>\n<h3>Vlahovi\u0107: The Forward Spearheading Fiorentina\u2019s Champions League Push<\/h3>\n<p>As things stand, Fiorentina sit sixth in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/11\/24\/champions-league-matchday-five\/\" target=\"_self\">Serie A<\/a> &#8211; seven points adrift of fourth place <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/01\/atalanta-manager-gian-piero-gasperini-new-deal\/\" target=\"_self\">Atalanta<\/a>. With that in mind, and a long way to go this season, it would not be bizarre to suggest that Fiorentina can still reach the dreamland of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/11\/24\/chelsea-quality-leicester-juventus\/\" target=\"_self\">Champions League<\/a> football, especially with a player of Vlahovi\u0107\u2018s ability leading the line.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old has scored 14 goals in 16 games this season. For context, that\u2019s more than Romelu Lukaku, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. The fact is, the Italians have one of the best strikers in the world at their disposal, and must make use of that whilst they still can. Every minute that Fiorentina spend outside of the Champions League is another step closer to Vlahovi\u0107\u2018s time at the club coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the Serbian is theirs, but, on current form, it might not be long before a big move is secured.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"uKX6XSXzREl9mzYjJ07Mvw\" 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\/1236839780\" 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:'uKX6XSXzREl9mzYjJ07Mvw',sig:'LIweg4KU8llGxmOhZtbJqFScfWfZWQnorZKdQA0HU_c=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1236839780',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>Du\u0161an Vlahovi\u0107 is one of the most in-form players in he world right now. And, as a result, he has attracted several admirers. The Fiorentina transfer news is certainly heating up. It feels inevitable that a player of Vlahovi\u0107\u2018s calibre, and of his young age of 21, will eventually swap the elegance of Florence for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":604932,"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":[5,7188,28],"tags":[8500,111,6370],"class_list":["post-604931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-dusan-vlahovic","tag-fiorentina","tag-jonathan-ikone"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604931","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\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}