Kalinic, a bad business for Atlético de Madrid

Nikola's story Kalinic (32 years old) at Atlético has arrived to its end. Last Monday, the last day of the transfer market, his departure to Italian Hellas Verona was confirmed for the next two seasons. The transfer figures have not been revealed, although it is estimated that the mattresses have entered some two million euros for the operation. The croatian He arrived at the rojiblanco club in the summer of 2018 from Milan to change of 15 million euros with the aim of being a complement for Griezmann and Diego Costa in the lead of Simeone's. However, has passed without pain or glory through the entity.

In his first campaign (2018-19), Kalinic participated in 24 matches andbetween all competitions, scoring four goals and giving an assist in 1090 minutes on the pitch. Definitely, the arrival of Morata in the winter market influenced the loss of importance of the Balkan in Simeone's plans, since since then he only added 155 'in the five games in which he played, without contributing so many or goal passes. That made last year left on loan to Rome in exchange for two million euros and a purchase option of nine. With the giallorossi jumped onto the grass in 19 duels, getting five targets and giving two goal passes. He went from less to more in the season, achieving three of his goals after the stoppage due to the coronavirus, which made the Romanists will consider keeping it their property, although they finally gave up due to the high price.

Thus, the Croatian returned to Atlético this summer, but still did not count for Cholo, so the rojiblancos wanted to find a way out for him, since he finished his contract at the end of this campaign and would leave for free. They even released him from joining the team's preseason so that a new destination could be sought as fast as possible. The main focus was on Turkey, where several teams from the country (Fenerbahce, Basaksehir and Besiktas) have taken an interest in him, especially the last of them. The black and white had been negotiating with Atlético and the player for almost a month to reach an agreement and take over Kalinic's services.

In the last days from the Ottoman country there had been practically closed the operation in the absence of only the typical fringes. However, at the last minute the name of the Hellas verona as a candidate to join the Balkan and has finally been the club that he took the cat into the water and took a problem off the mattress holders, who have at least managed to enter a small amount of money and save the chip of a player who had no place in their squad.