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Atletico Madrid join race for Milan striker

Atletico Madrid join race for Milan striker

Atletico Madrid are the latest club to join the race for Nikola Kalinic, according to our sources.

We can exclusively reveal that the Croatian international - who left his country’s camp because he wasn’t getting playing time - he is the subject of burgeoning negotiations between Atleti and Milan.

He has struggled to do much this season, scoring only six times for the Rossoneri.

The 30-year-old joined last summer on a deal worth a total of €25 million, and was expected to make up for the Rossoneri’s lack of experience in attack.

He had managed 27 Serie A goals with Fiorentina beforehand. Sevilla and Spartak Moscow are also interested, but it looks like Diego Simeone has stolen a march on them.

The idea is that Atletico Madrid first want to give away Kevin Gameiro. Milan, for their part, want to get at least the €25m they spent on Kalinic originally.

We can’t exclude that the Croatian could move to the Wanda Metropolitano for a loan-to-buy deal.