Newcastle striker's father 'threatened to bomb' old club
ALEKSANDAR MITROVIC'S father is alleged to have forced through his son's move to Anderlecht in most unusual fashion.
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| Mitrovic has had a tempestuous start to his Newcastle career |
Mitrovic has been a figure of controversy since his £13million move to Newcastle last summer, getting booked 22 seconds into his debut before receiving his first red card against Arsenal in only his second start.
And
now former Partizan Belgrade captain Albert Nadj has revealed
Mitrovic's £3.7m move to Belgium in 2013 was given some unusual
encouragement.
Mitrovic senior worked on transfer deals for the club until recently and was keen to ensure his son made the move to Belgium.
"In
a generation with Lazar Markovic, [Nikola] Ninkovic and Luka
Stojanovic, he [Mitrovic] was nowhere near Partizan's youth team," Nadj
told Blic.
"The
club wanted to get rid of him, so he went to Teleoptik, and soon after
some big clubs were chasing him and he moved to Anderlecht for €5m.
"I
was against his transfer; I believed he should have stayed and improved
more at Partizan and that Partizan could earn even more from his
transfer.
And
while there was this big discussion over whether to sell him or not,
his father came and said he will drop a bomb on the club if we refused
to release Aleksandar!
"I threw
the man out of my office, but some politicians even contacted us after
that, putting pressure on us to sell Aleksandar."
