Exclusive: Juve fascinated by Lazio Coppa hero, 'New Pogba'
As Lazio beat Roma 2-0, Milinkovic contributed by opening the scoring with a fantastic effort, which capped off a move he’d begun by picking the ball up between the lines, feeding it deep to Felipe Anderson and finishing with a great run off the ball.
Savic is being compared to Paul Pogba’s early days at Juventus, where he was an expert in transition and feeding the ball. Savic is slower, but otherwise has all the class to take the ball from one end of the pitch to the other. This was exactly the kind of player Juve were missing before Max Allegri decided to change the Bianconeri’s midfield this season.
A great header of the ball, Savic is compared to Pogba also in the goals he’s scoring. He’s already got six this season.
Already linked to Juventus on numerous occasions, the 22-year-old has been coy on any move to Turin. He already has a deal running until 2020 and Lazio are working to improve it, though reports yesterday indicated that they were stalling.
But when Juventus set their sights on someone…
Andrea Menon, adapted by @EdoDalmonte