Following a good start to the campaign on loan away from West Ham United at Torino, everyone was expecting the Serie A side to eventually trigger the option to buy in the deal for Nikola Vlasic.
His form has dipped a bit since he returned from the World Cup, but the general feeling was that Ivan Juric, the manager who pushed for him to be signed, would make his signing a requirement for next season.
Unfortunately for him and for West Ham, a similar scenario occurred last year with Leicester City’s Dennis Praet, who was never bought, and we could be in for a repeat, according to La Repubblica, relayed by Sport Italia.
The Italian outlet state there will be ‘no redemption’ for either Vlasic or Aleksei Miranchuk in the summer, as Torino will ‘hardly exercise’ the purchase options for the two players because of the ‘high cost of both’.
West Ham negotiated a €15m fee that could be spent to make the move permanent, but now it seems the Italians are going to move on.
That could obviously change in the coming months, but what once looked like a sure-fire deal now appears far from that.
