Manchester City: Stevan Jovetic completes move from Fiorentina

By Phil McNultyChief football writer

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Stevan Jovetic

Manchester City have completed the £22m signing of Montenegro international forward Stevan Jovetic from Fiorentina.

The 23-year-old, who has won 27 caps, arrived in Manchester on Friday to undergo a medical before City finalised the deal.

Jovetic had attracted interest from Arsenal and Manchester United.

New boss Manuel Pellegrini has also signed forward Alvaro Negredo and winger Jesus Navas from Sevilla, and Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho.

With the arrival of Jovetic and who scored 26 La Liga goals last season, City have taken their spending since the arrival of Pellegrini to almost £90m.

They have already signed Navas for £14.9m and Fernandinho from Shakhtar Donetsk for £30m.

Jovetic scored 13 goals in 31 games for Fiorentina last season and will help Pellegrini fill the void left by the departure of Mario Balotelli and Carlos Tevez.

City manager Pellegrini has left the club's pre-season training camp in South Africa to return home to Chile to deal with a personal matter although he could rejoin the squad in Hong Kong early next week.

Assistant manager Brian Kidd, who had a brief spell in charge after Roberto Mancini's sacking at the end of last season, took charge of City's 2-1 friendly defeat to AmaZulu in Durban.

Kidd said: "Manuel's had to go back to Chile for personal reasons.

"Hopefully he will be in Hong Kong on Tuesday, but we are not quite sure at the moment. You want the boss here for obvious reasons.

"The team were well prepared by him for this game. It's been a good work out in South Africa with two tough games."

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  • Comment posted by BaggiosPonytail, at 23:55 18 Jul 2013

    17.ExpertSportsAnalyst85

    GOOD ENGLISH TALENT SUPERIOR TO JOVETIC:

    James McFadden (classy young forward)
    ______________________________________

    McFadden is:

    a) Not English
    b) Not classy
    c) Not young

    I'll concede he is a forward.

  • Comment posted by Glad All Over - CPFC, at 23:46 18 Jul 2013

    By a show of hands, who has honestly seen Jovetic play more than ten times to actually judge him, rather than just his rating on FIFA?

  • Comment posted by markyp1965, at 07:02 19 Jul 2013

    Looks like us Arsenal fans are in for another disappointing Summer, with Jovetic the first 'target' to end up elsewhere.
    Higuain will end up at Napoli, Felaini will go to Man Ure and I can't see £40 being spent on 'bite yer arm' Suarez.
    Still, at least we've signed a 20yr old French youth international striker on a freebie!! :-\

  • Comment posted by Lukeyash, at 00:04 19 Jul 2013

    Why do people insist on commenting on things they clearly know nothing about? Firstly, I imagine that at least 70% of people commenting on this board haven't even seen Jovetic play more than a handful of games, if any at all. Secondly, he isn't an out and out striker, despite what the article may tell you. His best position is behind a lone front man, in the number 10, attacking midfield role.

  • Comment posted by U13628956, at 01:14 19 Jul 2013

    I support Fiorentina as my second team and have been watching JoJo play for years. No doubt he's a huge talent, at times in the past three seasons he's even been almost a saviour for the Viola.

    By the same account, his injury problems and recent attitude make it hard for me to shed too many tears over his departure. With Gomez as a replacement it's hard not to think we're moving forward here.

  • Comment posted by U15151426, at 23:48 18 Jul 2013

    So much for John Guidetti's potential then...

  • Comment posted by Red White and Black, at 05:12 19 Jul 2013

    Great to see FFP working so well after a relatively small club like PSG pays another £55m for a player, & City, with a worldwide fan base of 97 contributing virtually little spend another £90m 3wks into a window. Surely even their dubious world record stadium sponsorship deal from their owner's aunty's cousin's husband only goes so far, or perhaps they've now sold him a half-time pie for £1b'n.

  • Comment posted by U15778217, at 23:43 18 Jul 2013

    Good signing from Manchester City, still fairly young and a great creator of goals (as well as scoring them) the price may be steep but I think it will work out for Man City. It looks like Man City really are making a huge effort for the title this year.

  • Comment posted by grozza, at 03:05 19 Jul 2013

    And how do City get past the Financial fair play rules after spending 90 million pounds this summer????

  • Comment posted by 11_Giggsy_11, at 00:27 19 Jul 2013

    Wasn't all that fussed by the Negredo signing but Jovetic is a very good player and about time he has moved on from Viola. Ljacic showed better form last season for them but Jovetic was good too. Definitely needed a new challenge. Had me hooked ever since him and Vargas took apart Lahm's flank a few seasons back. Done well to find his way since that knee injury. Classy player.

  • Comment posted by U15661425, at 01:24 19 Jul 2013

    He was the youngest captain in history of Partizan Belgrade aged only 19 a l'epoque. Great asset. He didnt score agains England in Montenegro but was on of te best on the pitch. As an Arsenal fan I feel a bit disappointed he didnt sign for us. Good luck Citeh, decent player.

  • Comment posted by RobinFromPersia20, at 02:29 19 Jul 2013

    Yeah great purchase, yadda yadda.

    Anyone get a good look at some of those French ladies? Corr, Louisa Necib is a fox! Some other ones too. England Ladies much like the men, looked like they were up against much superior competition.

  • Comment posted by KingLaursen - Houllier Out Capello Out, at 23:43 18 Jul 2013

    Hart
    Zabaleta Kompany Nastasic Clichy
    Toure Fernandinho
    Navas Silva Jovetic
    Aguero

    Decent!

  • Comment posted by U13628956, at 01:24 19 Jul 2013

    And about his style - which so many people seem confused about - he is not a prolific goalscorer. Nor is he a target man - he will not win headers to flick on. He's certainly not 'another Dzeko', Stan Collymore. He's a trequartista - a (poorer) version of what Totti was in his prime.

    He's talented, but City will have to use him correctly - but I'm not sure they will. Best of luck to him.

  • Comment posted by GunnerStorm, at 00:50 19 Jul 2013

    Why is the BBC deleting any comment that includes "Negredo" in it?

    Evra perhaps?

  • Comment posted by matt, at 07:36 19 Jul 2013

    "Financial Fair Play"

    A system whereby Manchester United get to maintain dominance by selling the most shirts to poverty stricken third world people. This sport has no morals.

  • Comment posted by BayernUltra, at 04:09 19 Jul 2013

    Excellent signing for Pellegrini's preferred 4-2-2-2 system. Silva and Jovetic tucked in behind Aguero and Dzeko could be devastating.

  • Comment posted by Jay, at 00:34 19 Jul 2013

    3.KingLaursen - Houllier Out Capello Out

    It looks better than decent, However, I did think Clichy looked a little dodgy in several games last year though. McManaman tore him to pieces in the FA Cup final. On a separate note, it maybe time to change your user name.Unless the 2 said managers have now become housebound recluses.

  • Comment posted by Celts, at 15:10 20 Jul 2013

    comment 721 removed simply because it said United supporters are arrogant. There's proof if you needed any more that the BBC is pro United.

  • Comment posted by U12376444, at 14:32 20 Jul 2013

    Now City are spending big, i love the ironic posts from Man utd fans about buying the title.

    Just look at there first choice players:-
    De gea
    Jones
    Smalling
    Rio
    Vidic
    Evra
    Da silva
    Valencia
    Kagawa
    Cleverley
    Anderson
    Carrick
    RVP
    Rooney
    Nani
    Young
    Hernandez
    Wellbeck

    So Man utd fans, which ones didn't cost a transfer fee then?

    Last players you produced where Beckham, Giggs...etc that was years ago

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