Yes it is Martin Baturina impressed everyone with his performances in Como this season is now a widely known fact.
The former player of Dinamo struggled a lot with “finding his place under the sun” and in the first part of the season he had very limited playing time with Cesca Fàbregas. He ended this season with 34 club appearances with eight goals and four assists.
More importantly, he showed real maturity. He learned the extremely difficult tactical requirements that a virtuoso like Fàbregas has and built himself up considerably physically in order to be able to withstand the rhythm of one of the “five leagues” in the form of Serie A.
As a reward for all that, he won the Champions League with Como, ahead of Milan, whom he leads Luka Modric and turned into one of the better players of Vatreni who will certainly play a significant role in the upcoming World Cup.
He has been building and growing for a long time in Dinamo, and now he has already made a huge leap in Italy, where he may not stay for long. As reported by a renowned Italian insider and journalist Gianluca Di Marzioa serious and fierce hunt for the 23-year-old offensive midfielder began.
Di Marzio reports that two clubs from the Premier League have prepared offers in the amount of 50 to 55 million euros. Although the names of those clubs are not yet known, the third one is known, which is almost certainly bigger than them. And Bayern Munich, for whom the other Vatreni Josip Stanišić plays, closely follows Baturina’s situation and has him on their radar.
But some initial offers and interests are far from what would be enough for an ambitious club from the city of the same name by the lake of the same name to release one of their main assets, especially when it is known that he will leave them Nico Paz when Real Madrid ever formally activates its right of first purchase.
Although Baturina is worth 30 million euros according to Transfermarkt, Como would not receive offers for him at all according to current reports. The only case in which they are willing to let him go is the one in which some abnormally large offer or figure comes.
The Italian journalist states that it would be approximately 80 million euros, and such compensation would place Baturin among the 50 most expensive transfers in the history of football. In comparison, such compensation was paid by clubs like PSG for Khvich Kvaratskheli and Barcelona for Luis Suárez.
Maybe Baturina will play in the very north of Italy next year as well, but if he continues to play at this pace, he won’t be there for more than another year and will surely bring his club a fair profit.
