Kalinic the wanderer

As soon as summer arrives and it becomes clear what will happen to the leagues once the coronavirus passes, Nikola Kalinic will have to pack again. It is the chronicle of an announced death: his with Roma, a club to which he was transferred last summer, after a season in which things have not ended. As in the rojiblanco club, as in Milan. He has been a club per season since he scored 20 goals in 42 games in 2016-17, his best numbers. Since then, each year, his goal score has decreased. The 6 he did with Milan, something that earned him the Golden Bidone (an award given by readers of Calciobidoni.it to the 'most disappointing player of the year'), there were 4 with Atlético and two are with Roma. He left with a purchase option that the Italian club should exercise at the end of this season but will not exercise. Return Kalinic to Atlético.

It was already in the past winter market, to return him to the rojiblanco club, he had not met expectations, he did not want it, or, failing that, refer you to any other interested club. But there was not and, in the end, he accepted what was signed. Kalinic stayed to play the second part of the season with Roma. But neither: two months later nothing has changed. The Croatian footballer has barely participated in 10% of the minutes played by the team in Calcio, nine games. Thirteen are in total, 498 ', and only two goals and two assists (numbers, by the way, similar to those of Diego Costa in Atlético de Madrid, two goals and three assists).

Rome's plans for the future

Two million last summer from the loan (plus nine if he executed the purchase option) Kalinic cost Roma last summer, a footballer whose market value is currently, according to the specialized page Transfermarkt, of 8.5 million. A Rome that looks to the future without it but in a clear way, as the page reported yesterday Dailynews2, in information collected by Sports world, edition Athletic, in Spain. Looking for a striker under the age of 28 and the names he is considering with Mariano's (Real Madrid) and Wout Weghorst (Wolfsburg). Kalinic, what was said, will again wander Europe, looking for his place.