Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 11:39• Chris Meijer

Fiorentina and Atlético Madrid have reached an agreement on Dusan Vlahovic, the knows Corriere dello Sport to report. According to the Italian newspaper, the champion of Spain is willing to pay seventy million euros for the 21-year-old center striker. As soon as Fiorentina owner Rocco Commisso gives the green light for the transfer, the Serbian international can make the switch to Atlético.

Only the approval of Commisso – who will return to Italy this week – will separate Vlahovic from a move to Madrid, as all parties have reached an agreement. It looks like the end of a transfer game around Vlahovic, who has had an excellent season in the Fiorentina shirt. Fiorentina took over Vlahovic in the summer of 2018 for almost two million euros from Partizan Belgrade and after having spent the first two seasons in the top youth team, he broke through in the first team.

Where in his first year with the main squad he still shuttled back and forth between the bench and the starting eleven, he was one of the great revelations in Serie A last season. Vlahovic scored 21 goals in 37 league games and that provided the necessary interest. At Internazionale, Vlahovic was considered the possible successor to Lautaro Martínez. The Times recently reported on a €70m deal between Inter and Tottenham Hotspur over Martinez, but the Italian champions would not let him go after Romelu Lukaku left for Chelsea.

Vlahovic would also have been in the picture at Tottenham as the possible successor to Harry Kane, while his agent also spoke with Arsenal. Fiorentina, meanwhile, was engaged in keeping the seven-time Serbian international for longer. His contract, which runs until mid-2023, had to be upgraded by three years and included a surrender clause of at least seventy million euros. If the messages from the Corriere dello Sport actually be correct, Fiorentina will still collect that amount if the American owner Commisso gives the green light.

After João Félix (acquired from Benfica for 127 million euros) and Thomas Lemar (acquired from AS Monaco for 72 million euros), Vlahovic would become the third most expensive purchase in Atlético club history with a transfer fee of 70 million euros. At Fiorentina, he would become by far the most expensive-selling player ever. La Viola has according to the Corriere dello Sport already two possible successors in mind: Gianluca Scamacca from Sassuolo and Andrea Belotti from Torino.