Luka Jovic will depart Real Madrid to join Fiorentina

The Serbian striker will sign his new contract this Friday. He is already in Florence, with the Serie A club informing fans about all his movements on their social networks, clearly showing their enthusiasm for his signing.

Real Madrid have agreed to allow Jovic to depart on a free transfer

Luka Jovic will depart Real Madrid to join Fiorentina. The Serbian striker will sign his new contract this Friday. He is already in Florence, with the Serie A club informing fans about all his movements on their social networks, clearly showing their enthusiasm for his signing. Real Madrid have agreed to allow Jovic to depart on a free transfer, but they have secured 50 per cent of a future sale over the next two years. In exchange, Fiorentina will cover the player’s salary, whose contract with Real Madrid ran until 2025. In a typical deal, Real Madrid would most likely have been forced to pay part of the player’s high salary even if they received a transfer fee, his current value being set at 16 million euros according to Transfermarkt.

Fiorentina will have to pay just 24 per cent in taxes due to Italian regulations

For Los Blancos, Jovic’s salary was taxed at 45.5 per cent, but Fiorentina will have to pay just 24 per cent in taxes due to Italian regulations. This means that the Italian club would pay 6.5 million euros in a hypothetical scenario where Jovic earns five million euros, including taxes. Jovic is undoubtedly one of the worst signings in Real Madrid’s history regarding cost and performance. The 63 million euros that Real Madrid paid Eintracht Frankfurt to sign him make Jovic the eighth most expensive signing in the club’s history. Real Madrid had never spent such an amount for a striker before, with the second most costly signing being Ronaldo Nazario, who moved from Inter for 45m euros, and the third most expensive being Benzema, who joined from Lyon for 35m euros.

In Real Madrid’s top ten of the most expensive signings, Luka is ahead of Kaka and Hazard

Jovic leaves Real Madrid, for whom he has scored just three goals in 51 appearances. In Real Madrid’s top ten of the most expensive signings, the Serbian striker is ahead of Kaka (67 million euros) and Hazard (115m) in terms of cost-performance ratio. Kaka arrived the same season as Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo. He scored 29 goals and recorded 39 assists in 120 games, but, indeed, he was never the Kaka that impressed at AC Milan due to his injury issues. Something similar is happening with Hazard, who suffered injuries following his move to Real Madrid, whose most expensive signing of all time has six goals in 66 games. Unlike Jovic, Hazard is convinced that he can improve his performance this coming year after undergoing surgery and removing the plate from his ankle that has given him so many problems at Real Madrid.

Jovic, for his part, has not had any serious injury problems at Real Madrid. Everything points to a problem of adaptation. The Serbian, who arrived after scoring 40 goals in 93 games in the Bundesliga, didn’t manage to live up to expectations. His father said a few days ago that this deal would prove who was right. On one side, his son, on the other, Zinedine Zidane, then Carlo Ancelotti, and a club that no longer believed in him either.