Just last month, he transferred from Dunajská Streda to Lecce, and a battle of giants is already preparing for him.
Lecce planned to spend 10-12 million
Montenegrin striker Nikola Krstovič left as the top scorer of the previous season of the Slovak league, scoring 26 goals in 35 matches in all competitions. The clubs did not disclose the release fee for the 23-year-old finisher.
news-item-description">Only hundreds separated the best. Not just the first two, but practically everyone in the top ten. Nikola Krstovič won the grading of the editors of the daily Šport. Tenth Martin Rymarenko was 28 hundredths behind. He was probably the most positive surprise in the very top of the league. Paradoxically, Dunajská Streda did not want him for the second season and he proves for the second season that if he deserves something, it is trust.
Pre The Athletic Lecce’s sports director Pantaleo Corvino only revealed this later. He described how he discussed Krstovič with the former assistant coach in the Montenegrin national team Mirko Vucinič. It was he who brought the former striker of Juventus or AS Rome to Lecce from Sutjeska Nikšič.
“I told Vučinić that I plan to spend 10 to 12 million euros on Krstović. He replied, ‘Follow him.’ The truth is, I ended up paying only 3.8 million,” Corvino revealed.
Vucinič followed up, quoting him CalcioMercato: “I told Corvino to buy him even if Dunajská Streda asked for 10 million. He reminds me of Alen Bokšič – he is strong, fast, dominant in the air. He got off to a great start, but I explained to him that he needs to work harder to prove it.”
Lecce coach Roberto D’Aversa compared Krstovic to Filippo Inzaghi thanks to his sense of place selection.
news-item-description">During the season grades from 4 to 9, the resulting average anchored significantly more upwards from the middle. More precisely, on the 7.12 level. He surpassed the best from the 2021/22 season, the captain of the champion Slovan Vladimír Weiss Jr., by a single hundredth. If in the final match against Banská Bystrica he would not have received a seventh, but a sixth, he would have finished in second place. However, Dunajská Streda’s scoring leader Nikola Krstovič is finally on the pedestal and is enjoying the victory in the Šport league marking.
Even Weiss envied Dunajská
Krstovič came to Dunajská Streda in the summer of 2021 neglected. Physically and in terms of game confidence. Before that, he was unable to establish himself in Crvena zvezda Belgrade during two years. His first season on Rye Island was nothing special.
However, he was unstoppable last year. Slovan Bratislava coach Vladimír Weiss Sr. also envied him at Dunajská Streda: “We miss a classic scorer like Krstovič in Dunajská Streda, who decides matches himself.”
After moving to Lecce, Krstovic didn’t even feel the departure to a qualitatively more demanding environment in Serie A. He continues to score goals, after five meetings he has three on his account.
He made his debut after only one training session with the team, scoring after just four minutes against Fiorentina! In the second performance, he got the better of Slovakian stopper Norbert Gyombér from Salernitana. Thanks to Krstovic, Lecce is the comet of the league, it is currently sixth.
Milan derby for Krstovic
“He surprised everyone, but not us. We were aware of his abilities, he is a polished player,” says Corvino’s representative Stefano Trinchera.
The well-known talent scout Corvino has an eye for forwards from Montenegro, in addition to Vučinić, he also discovered Stevan Jovetić. During his time in Fiorentina, he also signed Serbian Dušan Vlahovič, today a Juventus star. He believes that Krstovic will be at least as good: “He can score goals in many ways. Head, from the penalty area, from mid-range.’
Italy La Gazzetta dello Sport states that the “Krstovič mania” has broken out and that the Milan derby will be contested for the attacker already in the winter. The periodical called him the best rookie of the current Serie A season.
news-item-description">Italian fans cannot praise the Montenegrin representative Nikola Krstović, as he has shown excellent form in the last few Serie A matches. The former Dunajská Streda player also impressed Javier Chevantón, the legendary Lecce player.
Inter’s sporting director reportedly already watched him in the duel with Monza, when Krstović struck after only three minutes. However, AC would need him more, where 36-year-old French veteran Olivier Giroud plays at the tip of the attack.
When Čierna Hora hosted Slovakia last November, Krstovič said: “If I play well, maybe I’ll be at Inter one day.” Like Milan Škriniar.”
DAC can still make money from Krstović
According to Transfermarkt, Krstovic has an estimated value of only 2.2 million. However, the last update was made after the end of last season. If he continues with such performances, the person interested in his services must prepare an 8-figure sum. Transfermarkt reports that DAC will receive 15% of the resale.
It would mean another profitable deal for Lecce. The modest club, which barely stayed in the top flight last season, sold Danish midfielder Morten Hjulmand to Sporting Lisbon for 18 million in the summer. The club brought him from Austria’s Admira Wacker a year and a half ago for only 2.5 million.
2023-09-28 15:00:00
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