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It will come as no surprise to hear that some of Europe’s elite are keeping a keen eye on Kostov’s exploits in Belgrade amid an outstanding breakthrough campaign at Red Star. In the short-term, he will surely be focused on helping his current employers claim a ninth league title in a row as they begin the championship round in the Super Liga, but there will be intense scrutiny around his future come the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n The teenager has already been linked with the likes of Arsenal, AC Milan, Barcelona (against whom he scored a cheeky Panenka in the UEFA Youth League in 2024), Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain, while Stankovic’s connection with Inter supposedly means the Italian giants are also in the running. However, given the youngster signed a new contract until 2028 as recently as October, Red Star are in a position of power.<\/span><\/p>\n Whether they decide to cash-in this summer for what is certain to be a record fee for a Serbian player remains to be seen. For what it’s worth, the player himself insists he is unaffected by the noise. <\/span><\/p>\n “I don’t think I was so carried away by the fact that they write a lot about the fact that I’m going somewhere,” he told <\/span>Sporty.<\/em><\/i> “All those big numbers, 25 million (euros)… It doesn’t affect my game and my stay here at all.”<\/span><\/p>\n However, Kostov suggested he has already outgrown the Serbian top-flight, and dropped a significant hint as to where he could end up in the future: “I can’t say it’s too easy (the standard), because there are a lot of experienced and really good players in the Super Liga. Of course I think I can play at a higher level, certainly. At this point I think this is totally okay for me.”<\/span><\/p>\n He added: “I think I would do best in Germany or Italy. As I have said many times, I don’t think so much about my desires. It is not my main goal to go somewhere this summer.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It will come as no surprise to hear that some of Europe’s elite are keeping…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}