Ante Ćorić is the newest player of the Italian great A.S. Roma!
21-year-old Ante Ćorić arrived in Rome on Saturday afternoon before going to the A.S. Roma clinic for a medical examination on Monday morning. The now-former Dinamo Zagreb player went on to sign a five-year contract with the Serie A club, where he’ll earn around 1.2 million euro a year, reports Goal.hr on May 28, 2018.
Dinamo should receive 7 million euro plus a million in bonuses from the transfer, through Italian media has reported that this bonus won’t be activated until Ante makes his first appearance for the club. This could mean that Roma are planning to first send Ćorić to their younger team (Primavera) or on loan. This, of course, is just speculation.
Ännu en kroat i Italien. Denna gången Ante Coric till Roma för 7m euro. Denna värvningen kan inte bli ”mellanmjölk”, antingen är det succé eller flopp! Fixar han sin attityd & lever et professionellt liv kommer Roma tjäna stora pengar på honom nästa gång han säljs! pic.twitter.com/SMWmpIGsqh
— Martin Ladan (@MartinLadan) May 28, 2018
The Italian league is considered to be very dangerous for young players, and many Croatian footballers fall after their clubs transfer them to second, and third league teams. Some of the more prominent Croatian footballers did not find any success in Italy including Ante Rebić, Andrija Balić who went to Italy as the most talented league player, Sluga who never got a chance, and Vukušić who arrived as the top striker in his league.
The players that went to the Serie A from Dinamo, however, have succeeded. And even if they did not play in Italy, they achieved a celebrated football career elsewhere. Italy has thus paid the Zagreb club 83.4 million euro for players, and with Ćorić's signing, that amount will exceed 90 million.
Mercato AS Roma - Terminate le visite mediche di Ante Coric (Foto): Si avvicina sempre di più il trasferimento di Ante Coric... https://t.co/umaQ6ouwrE pic.twitter.com/b66qiQieXS
— teladoiotokyo (@teladoiotokyo) May 28, 2018
Dinamo players that went to Serie A
1994: Goran Vlaović to Padua
1998:. Tomislav Rukavina to Venice
1998: Dario Šimić to Inter for 11 million euro
1999: Kruno Jurčić to Turin
2000. Stjepan Tomas to iVicenza for 3 million euro
2013: Mateo Kovačić to Inter for 11 million euro
2013: Ivan Kelava in Udinese for 600,000 euro
2013: Šime Vrsaljko to Genoa for 4.80 million euro
2013: Tin Jedvaj to Roma for 5 million euro
2014: Duje Čop to Cagliari for 4 million euro
2014: Marcelo Brozović to Inter for 8 million euro
2016: Marko Rog to Napoli for 13 million euro
2016: Marko Pjaca to Juventus for 23 million euro
Looking at Roma’s purchases, with a compensation of eight million euro, Ćorić will barely enter the top 50 most expensive players to the club.
At the top are Batista (36 million euro), Cassano (28.5 million euro), Montella (25 million), and Mohamed Salah (15 million euro), though Ćorić is more expensive than Schick, Gonalons, Riise, and Kolarov.
Roma is known for doing an excellent job with their younger players, and the club welcomed Cassano, Iturbe, Zebin, Lamela, Krkić, Ljaic, Pjanić, and Marquinhos and 21 years of age or younger.
