Overview
- Besiktas president Serdal Adali said the club is in active negotiations with Dusan Vlahovic and that talks remain ongoing with no contract announced yet.
- Adali said Besiktas deliberately ended negotiations with Mohamed Salah because the player wanted a large share of merchandise revenue and a high agent commission.
- Vlahovic has been a free agent since his Juventus contract expired on July 1 and Juventus’s permanent signing of Randal Kolo Muani makes Juve less likely to re-sign him.
- Besiktas have already added Alexander Nübel, Leandro Trossard and Salih Özcan this summer and expect Trossard to be available from the club’s second match once registration clears.
- The club is using coach Vincenzo Italiano’s prior working relationship with Vlahovic at Fiorentina as a recruitment selling point and the move could intensify the Süper Lig transfer race and affect Besiktas’s title prospects.