Ryan Sessegnon s future is out of Fulham s hands, says coach Slavisa Jokanovic, as European giants including Real Madrid and Manchester United continue to be linked with the teenager.
Sessegnon has scored five league goals, including a hat-trick in a 5-4 win at Sheffield United, to establish himself as one of the hottest properties in the Championship.
Liverpool and Tottenham have also been linked with a move for the 17-year-old, who signed his first professional deal in June and can play anywhere down the left.
Jokanovic accepts Fulham, 11th in the Championship, will be powerless to resist a massive bid for the £30million-rated starlet, a key player in England s triumphant 2017 European Under-19 Championship campaign.
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Mario Gomez is optimistic about rediscovering his goalscoring form for Fiorentina after returning to full fitness.
The Germany international has suffered long-term knee and thigh injuries since moving to Serie A in July 2013, limiting him to just 22 appearances in all competitions.
He has only found the back of the net four times during that spell, the last coming against Chievo in a league fixture in March.
Gomez returned to Vincenzo Montella s side in late October following his latest spell on the sidelines and is confident his first goal of the season will arrive sooner rather than later.
I m fine and I really want to score, he told a media conference on Tuesday. [The will to score] is always there, but football is like this.
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Shakhtar Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu would have preferred to avoid Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League last-16 draw.
The Ukrainian champions are currently playing home matches in Lviv more than 700 miles from their Donbass Arena stadium due to political unrest in the east of the country.
Shakhtar qualified from Group H, along with Porto, but were dealt a tough tie with 2013 champions Bayern, and Lucescu says his side could have done with a bit more luck when it came to Monday s draw.
At this stage of the Champions League, I did not want Real Madrid, as they are the current holders of the trophy, I did not want Barcelona, because we have already played with them many times, and I did not want Bayern, he said.
Today, Shakhtar are in a difficult si…