CAN SLAV MAKE HIS BIG GAMBLE PAY OFF?

UNDER normal circumstances, no Championship club could hope to entice a player who scored six goals for one of Europe’s leading nations during World Cup qualification.
Yet that is exactly what Fulham have signed in Aleksandar Mitrovic, Serbia’s leading marksman in the race to Russia.
Only seven players on the Continent netted more than the 23-year-old – and those names include Robert Lewandowski, Cristiano Ronaldo and Romelu Lukaku.
So why would Newcastle, a struggling Premier League team in desperate need of a prolific targetman, lend Mitrovic to Fulham?
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