{"id":625371,"date":"2023-07-20T06:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=625371"},"modified":"2023-07-20T07:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T11:25:31","slug":"aleksandar-mitrovic-al-hilal-fulham-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/20\/aleksandar-mitrovic-al-hilal-fulham-never\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Never Play for Fulham Again&#8217;: Star Now Set for Stunning Craven Cottage Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fulham star Aleksandar Mitrovic has expressed his intent to leave the club, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1681758885982396417?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports<\/a>. Should a deal not be agreed to sell the player, it appears he will refuse to take the field for the London club.<\/p>\n<h2>Aleksandar Mitrovic Situation Escalating Quickly &#8211; Now Set to Leave Fulham<\/h2>\n<h3>Mitrovic Frustrated With Fulham&#8217;s Actions<\/h3>\n<p>Mitrovic is not happy with how Fulham have been dictating his transfer saga.<\/p>\n<p>The striker scored several key goals for the Cottagers in an impressive mid-table finish this past season, with his experience and goalscoring prowess captivating the home fans. His departure will disappoint many who wanted to see Fulham improve upon last year&#8217;s Premier League results<\/p>\n<h3>How We Got Here<\/h3>\n<p>As per Sky, the two sides have been at odds over where the striker should go and for how much of late, with Saudi club Al-Hilal having already made <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1681758885982396417?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two offers for Mitrovic<\/a>, although both were rejected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:\u00a0<\/strong>One Player Your Club Must Sell This Summer<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BIG TRANSFERS! One Player Every Premier League Club NEEDS to Sell!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFgI8YJRqKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That has led the experienced Serbian to believe that the club&#8217;s asking price for him &#8211; which Sky report to be \u00a352 million &#8211; is steeper than what most teams are willing to offer. At 28 years old, Mitrovic still has much to offer, but Fulham are not likely to get a big-money bid for a player whose prime performances could soon run out.<\/p>\n<h3>Potential Compromises for Both Parties<\/h3>\n<p>Now that it appears that Mitrovic must leave, he and Fulham will have to agree to where.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/19\/chelsea-rejected-elite-player\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/19\/fabrizio-romano-ashley-phillips-tottenham\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham<\/a> are among the sides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/sport\/football\/aleksandar-mitrovic-manchester-united-fulham-29548516\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> to be monitoring Mitrovic, but Fulham might not want their man going to a domestic opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi clubs, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/12\/sergej-milinkovic-savic-al-hilal\/\" target=\"_self\">Al Hilal<\/a>, remain potential options.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear exactly how Mitrovic is valued within European circles, but he will be missed by Fulham fans assuming he leaves this summer.<\/p>\n<h3>Fulham to Get a Replacement<\/h3>\n<p>Should Mitrovic leave, Fulham will need to replace their top scorer &#8211; the Serb was integral to their promotion to the Premier League in 2022 and then getting them a mid-table finish.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12301075\/Fulham-Crystal-Palace-inquire-relegated-Southamptons-Scotland-striker-Che-Adams.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rumoured<\/a> to be monitoring Che Adams of Southampton, but the fact of the matter\u00a0for Fulham is that no matter who they sign, life without Mitrovic appears inevitable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:\u00a0<\/strong>The nation sabotaging its football potential<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Footballing Nation SABOTAGING Its Own Future #shorts\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NBq6VXbsTgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Main image credit: Yukihito Taguchi-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fulham star Aleksandar Mitrovic has expressed his intent to leave the club, according to Sky Sports. Should a deal not be agreed to sell the player, it appears he will refuse to take the field for the London club. Aleksandar Mitrovic Situation Escalating Quickly &#8211; Now Set to Leave Fulham Mitrovic Frustrated With Fulham&#8217;s Actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4764,"featured_media":625382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1689811200","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Mitrovic Set to Leave Fulham","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"300","footnotes":""},"categories":[2511,3,7188],"tags":[2765,9301],"class_list":["post-625371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fulham","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-aleksandar-mitrovic","tag-fulham-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625371","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\/4764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}