In the summer, VfB Stuttgart will most likely lose Sasa Kalajdzic (24), his greatest hope in the Sturmzentrale.
He is very likely to leave VfB in the summer: Sasa Kalajdzic.
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Sasa Kalajdzic knows how to maintain the reputation and status of a model professional and popular figure. After the training session on Tuesday, the striker stayed a little longer with the hundred or so fans present and warmly thanked them for their tireless support. In the end, the Austrian also climbed over the advertising board to enable fans to take souvenir photos. All alone. While all other VfB professionals had long since disappeared. Moments that felt like goodbyes. And which is apparently also indicated.
The likelihood that Kalajdzic will wear the jersey of the traditional club beyond the summer decreases from week to week and defeat to defeat. The man who can lie as badly as a penguin can fly has always found it difficult to successfully conceal his inner life and his thoughts.
The 24-year-old looks more depressed and disillusioned than ever these days. Nevertheless, the coach firmly believes in the attacker, who is still fighting for one hundred percent fitness after his shoulder surgery and a calf injury. “He knows he’s the striker who will shoot us to stay up,” says Pellegrino Matarazzo optimistically.
Interest from England, Italy – and the Bundesliga
It could be a farewell gift for the Swabians. Already last summer there were many indications that the two-meter man would change. However, his shoulder injury just before the end of the transfer period stopped all poaching attempts before they could materialize.
Interest in the 24-year-old has not subsided since then. Primarily clubs from England and Italy lure. Then as now, represented by Tottenham, West Ham and Roma, among others. But the name Kalajdzic has also been discussed in the Bundesliga at RB Leipzig, Dortmund and FC Bayern, among others.
Either way, a transfer of the strong and accurate attacker would mean a bitter loss for Stuttgart. Sportively as well as financially. The transfer fee, which was previously estimated at around 20 million euros, should fall by a lot. Discussions with the aim of an early extension of the contract, which expires in 2023, have so far been postponed.
Kalajdzic does not want to commit himself, especially since the Swabians cannot offer the national player the necessary perspective either on the pitch or on the account. Stuttgart would still have the opportunity to put a stop to a premature change of attacker. In order to increase the chance of either staying up again or being promoted again next year. There is no exit clause in his contract. But a year later Kalajdzic would leave the club on a free transfer.
