Newcastle striker's father 'threatened to bomb' old club

ALEKSANDAR MITROVIC'S father is alleged to have forced through his son's move to Anderlecht in most unusual fashion.

 

Mitrovic has had a tempestuous start to his Newcastle career

 

Mitrovic has been a figure of controversy since his £13million move to Newcastle last summer, getting booked 22 seconds into his debut before receiving his first red card against Arsenal in only his second start.

And now former Partizan Belgrade captain Albert Nadj has revealed Mitrovic's £3.7m move to Belgium in 2013 was given some unusual encouragement.

Mitrovic senior worked on transfer deals for the club until recently and was keen to ensure his son made the move to Belgium.

 

"In a generation with Lazar Markovic, [Nikola] Ninkovic and Luka Stojanovic, he [Mitrovic] was nowhere near Partizan's youth team," Nadj told Blic.

"The club wanted to get rid of him, so he went to Teleoptik, and soon after some big clubs were chasing him and he moved to Anderlecht for €5m. 

"I was against his transfer; I believed he should have stayed and improved more at Partizan and that Partizan could earn even more from his transfer. 

 

And while there was this big discussion over whether to sell him or not, his father came and said he will drop a bomb on the club if we refused to release Aleksandar! 

"I threw the man out of my office, but some politicians even contacted us after that, putting pressure on us to sell Aleksandar."