Stuttgart have ‘not heard from West Ham United or Everton’ amid ongoing reports linking Bundesliga hitman Sasa Kalajdzic with a £15 million move to the Premier League, sporting director Sven Mislintat tells Kicker.
September really can’t come soon enough for Stuttgart.
This week alone, speculation regarding both Kalajdzic and Borna Sosa have gone into overdrive; The prospect of that fearsome ‘Sosa-Sasa’ partnership – one that combined for nine league goals over the last two seasons – being broken up.
According to Croatian publication Index, Sosa’s agent is in England for transfer talks. West Ham and Newcastle are reportedly chasing one of Europe’s most accurate deliverers of a dead ball.
6ft 7ins centre-forward Kalajdzic, meanwhile, has spent much of the last 18 months living rent free in the gossip columns.
Will Stuttgart striker Sasa Kalajdzic still end up in the Premier League?
“We’ve been living with rumours for weeks,” Mislintat sighs, endless speculation clearly taking it’s toll, via Fussball News.
“(We have) not heard from Man United, West Ham, Everton or Chelsea.”
Kalajdzic has scored an impressive 23 goals in the last two Bundesliga campaigns. He even found the net in seven consecutive games during 2020/21 – a record he now shares with Stuttgart legend Fredi Bobic.
“I don’t know myself how my future will turn out,” the sky-scraping Austria international told Kicker a couple of days ago. “But (my future) will become apparent in the next few weeks, or as soon as possible.”
Everton and Manchester United are just two clubs in need of a new number nine, and time is running out with just over a fortnight left before the window closes. The Toffees came unstuck at home to Chelsea on Saturday, failing to pose a threat in the injury-enforced absence of Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
“There’s a player at Stuttgart; Kalajdzic,” former Premier League ace and Germany international Dietmar Hamann told talkSPORT recently.
Liverpool, he believes, could have considered making a move for ‘a Peter Crouch-type’ targetman. That is, before Darwin Nunez arrived at Anfield of course.
“He’s 6ft 7ins, with very good hold-up play,” Hamann adds. “That might be a player who might be interesting for Liverpool. It’s always important to have competition in the squad. You bring players in and freshen it up.”
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