Daniele Prade, the Fiorentina sporting director, has revealed the club is yet to receive an offer from English Premier League giants Chelsea for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Stevan-Jovetic-c34163.
Reports have linked the 22-year-old Montenegro international with a move to the London club. However, according to his current side, there has been no contact from Chelsea regarding a possible move in the summer transfer window.
Prade confirmed that Chelsea had not made an offer for Jovetic and that as things stood, Fiorentina had planned their future around the young forward. The sporting director revealed he had been in touch with the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 executives and there seemed to be
no interest expressed by the Champions League winners.
Prade said in an interview:
“For the time being, Jovetic is our player. Chelsea have never made an official proposal and I know their (Chelsea's) club executives very well as I lived in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 for a year.
We want to build our team around him (Jovetic).”
Fiorentina signed Jovetic for an estimated fee of 7.3 million pounds from Partizan in the summer transfer window of 2008. While he has not scored too many goals, the youngster made it a habit to score on important occasions, scoring one too many decisive
goals for La Viola.
The 2010-2011 season saw him suffer an injury to his right knee during pre-season, because of which he went on to miss the entire season. He made his return in the 2011-2012 season and scored twice in the 3-0 win over Parma, making his return.
He soon went on to secure his future with Fiorentina, with his new contract set to keep him at the club until 2016. The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Montenegro-c2959 international’s long term commitment to the club casts doubt over the possibility of a possible transfer to Chelsea.
With the Blues having confirmed the appointment of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Didier-Drogba-c11044, the Blues are looking to sign talented strikers.
Since 2008, Jovetic has made a total of 101 appearances for Fiorentina and has scored 27 goals in all competitions.
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