Dejan Kulusevski has made a massive impact in Serie A to catch the eye of Premier League pair Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Tall, rangy and deceptively skilful, there are certainly similarities between Lazio superstar Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Dejan Kulusevski, Serie A’s latest hot prospect.
Since joining Parma on loan from Atalanta over the summer, the Sweden U21 international has made one hell of an impact. There has been five assists already in just 11 league starts, plus two goals, with Kulusevski wreaking havoc from his favoured number ten role.
Equally adept on either foot, the languid play-maker can open up a defence with a pinpoint through ball or do it all himself, belying his rather leggy 6ft 1ins frame to skip past opposition enforcers like a gazelle prancing through the prairie.
He might not be on Milinkovic-Savic’s level just yet but he’s not far away. And his ‘new Milinkovic-Savic‘ nickname is starting to do the rounds in the Italian media.
According to Sky Sports, Lazio’s typically outspoken president Claudio Lotito demanded not a penny short of £90 million when Manchester United showed interest in the Serbian general over the summer.
Kulusevski, therefore, looks like an absolute steal at a comparatively measly £23 million.
That, according to Tuttomercatoweb, is the fee Atalanta want for their latest whizzkid with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Arsenal showing an interest. Wolves, the report adds, are readying a bid of £13 million while the Gunners potentially see Kulusevski as the man capable of easing the creative burden on the enigmatic yet erratic Mesut Ozil.
The smart idea would be to take a punt on Kulusevski at the earliest opportunity, before his price-tag rockets like Milinkovic-Savic’s did after his outstanding breakthrough season in Serie A.
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