It has not been, this one either, Luka Jovic’s season at Real Madrid. The role of the striker in the League and Champions League champion squad has been residual. The third time has not been the charm either. The Serbian, with a contract until June 2025, occupies a priority position on the starting ramp, but he has a handicap: his poor numbers during his time as a Real Madrid player do not make him a precisely coveted piece in the market. An inconvenience that can be mitigated in this international break, in which the white striker faces four games with Serbia. Four opportunities to go to market.
The Jovic issue is thorny. It is not only a question of finding a destination for him, but also of minimizing the impact that his possible departure may have on the club’s accounts. Madrid paid 60 million euros for his transfer to Eintracht in 2019. Anything other than obtaining 30 million from the sale of him would mean incurring losses. Its market value has plummeted in these three years. Of the 45.1 million euros in which it was valued at its heyday in the Bundesliga, 62% has been devalued, to a valuation of 17.2 million, according to Olocip.
UEFA Nations League
*Data updated as of June 1, 2022
Jovic has closed the season with just 550 minutes played (he has participated in 19 games) with Real Madrid. And that showed reason for hope during the visit to Real Sociedad, when he had to replace an injured Karim Benzema. He participated in the two goals of the victory (0-2) for Ancelotti’s men. He scored the second and assisted Vinicius in the first. His best game, without a doubt, in his three years (except for the six-month hiatus that he was on loan at Eintracht at the beginning of 2021) wearing the white shirt. In the final stretch of the season, however, he has been relegated to Ancelotti’s third option at the top of the attack, behind Mariano. He wasn’t even on the bench in the Paris finalwhere he was one of the two discards (the other, Vallejo) of the Italian coach for the final list of 23.
Statistical comparison of Luka Jovic with Real Madrid and the Serbian national team.
BeSoccer Pro
With his team he has appeared in the nine commitments of the course except for one, although in another two he was a testimonial presence, of less than ten minutes. He scored two goals in friendly matches against Qatar. He now has a quadruple date ahead of him in group B4 of the League of Nations. Today, Thursday, they face Odegaard’s Norway, on Sunday the 5th they face Slovenia, on Thursday the 9th against Sweden and on Sunday the 12th again against Slovenia.. Four meetings to put on the market. At the moment, against Norway he is a substitute…