Fiorentina News

ARSENAL and Manchester City are on standby after Fiorentina suggested Stevan Jovetic could have played his last game for the club.

It has been long claimed that Stevan Jovetic will be landing at Arsenal as soon as the season ends, despite interest from the Serie A giants Juventus.

Arsene Wenger is known to be monitoring the transfer status of the 25-year-old, and has been a long-term admirer of the former River Plate star.

Arsenal have been linked heavily with signing Stevan Jovetic this summer, with fans hoping he is the part of the jigsaw which can fire the Gunners back into the title race next season.

Palermo was officially relegated after former player Luca Toni scored to hand Fiorentina a 1-0 win in Serie A on Sunday.

Back in March former Italian international certainly went down the list of footballers to send Christmas card lists in regards to Arsenal fans when the former Bayern Munich poacher had this to say about the apparent deal to take Stevan Jovetic to Arsenal in the summer: "I tell him to think carefully before leaving Florence, as there is an important ... (more)

The coach has been linked with the Napoli job and confessed he would love to be in charge of his hometown club one day, but is keeping that moment down the line.

Arsenal have been given a major boost in their pursuit to land their top summer target Stevan Jovetic, after Fiorentina forward Luca Toni admitted the Montenegrin feels "unloved" at the club.

Oleksandr Yakovenko will reportedly join Fiorentina on a free transfer this summer; leaving the door open for Arsenal to sign Stevan Jovetic.

The Montenegrin is pleased to have caught the attention of the Italian champions but Arsenal remain in pole position to sign the attacker Stevan Jovetic has admitted that he feels honoured to be linked with Juventus , even though he is expected to leave Fiorentina for Arsenal in the summer transfer window.

Roma missed a glorious opportunity in their unlikely quest to qualify for next season's Champions League play-offs after Chievo netted in the dying moments to inflict a 1-0 defeat on the Giallorossi.

Cesc Fabregas is said to have turned down the chance to return to Arsenal , according to Spanish pundit Guillem Balague , who writes that the Spaniard intends to give it 'one more year' at Barcelona to see how his prospects there develop.

Arsenal are reportedly in advanced talks with Fiorentina for Stevan Jovetic and are also keeping tabs on Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski and Manchester City frontman Edin Dzeko as a second striker to boost their chances of Premier League success next season.

When Nemanja Vidic advised his friend and Serbia team-mate Matija Nastasic to join Manchester City last summer, he was not expecting the 20-year-old to beat him to the only major trophy missing from his own collection.

AS Roma's Pablo Daniel Osvaldo scores a late goal during a Serie A soccer match versus Fiorentina at the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence on Saturday.

Fiorentina were left to rue their failure to make their pressure count against Roma on Saturday as they fell to a dramatic 1-0 defeat at the Artemio Franchi.

Fiorentina's Champions League hopes diminished as a late goal meant it lost 1-0 at home to Roma in the Serie A on Saturday.

The Fiorentina boss says he admires the Argentine-born Italy international ahead of his side's match against Roma this Saturday Fiorentina coach Vincenzo Montella has revealed his fondness for Roma striker Pablo Osvaldo .

Ghanaian young left-back Nii Nortey Ashong could find himself in the Fiorentina first team next season due to his impressive outing for the La Viola Under-20 in the Primavera League.

Fiorentina parted ways with captain Riccardo Montolivo and signed the sure-footed trio of Alberto Aquilani, Borja Valero and the criminally underrated David Pizarro.