Position: Attacking Midfielder Center, Forward

Age: 22

Nationality: Montenegrin

Current Team: Fiorentina

Appearances: 162 (50)

Estimated Price: 18 – 25 million pounds

Other Interested Teams: Arsenal, Real Madrid, Juventus, Man United

Chelsea’s been linked with Stevan Jovetic for a couple of seasons now and for good reason; this kid is one of the more exciting young players on show.

Versatile and skilled, Jovetic tends to play as an attacking midfielder or a second forward, making runs into the box or finding out team mates from deeper positions. He also possesses a wicked long range shot which tends to swerve a lot and gives him his fair share of highlight reel long shot goals in a season.

A very, very good dribbler, if signed he would join Eden Hazard and Marko Marin in an influx of dribblers into the current Chelsea squad. Averaging almost 3 dribbles a game last season, Jovetic is a defender’s nightmare who can turn them and cut inside or dribble past them on the out side before putting a ball into the box. His unpredictability is an important trait as it makes marking him difficult. He could just be Chelsea’s trequarista in many ways if we were to sign him.

Key Attributes:

Long Shots: He is amazing with his long range accuracy and is a menace with the ball outside the area. He reminds of the Del Piero like mold, cutting inside from the left before releasing a long range bullet. And Chelsea could use this kind of talent as Lampard’s long shots have been gradually diminishing and without Essien as well, Chelsea lack a long shot specialist.

Finishing: Calm, collected and lethal. That would describe this youngMontenegrin. He’s very good in the box and finds the net often. He could be a more than adequate replacement if Torres continues to misfire up front as his flair and dribbling skills would make him an exciting forward player.

Passing: He’s also a great passer though his 74.4% pass completion rate last year will slightly diminish that belief. But he also had at least 40 passes every game so it goes to show that he was heavily involved in build up play. Averaging one and a half key passes a game for a weak team in the Italian league, it can be inferred that Jovetic is a special player and can only get better.

But it must also be said that Jovetic is defensively very poor and is rarely seen helping out on the defensive side of the pitch. But playing in the hole may not need him to be so defensively sound so at the moment it shouldn’t be much of a concern. Having said that he must improve though on that feature of his game to be a more complete player.

Crossing is also a concern for this player, he reminds of a Bosingwa with his often wayward crossing and this must definitely be a skill to be improved for him to be successful in the Premier League. But his other skills are so alluring – close control, flair, technique – that a poor crosser should be the least of Chelsea’s worries.

Here’s one video of his abilities. Couldn’t find any better ones sorry.

It should also be noted that he’s come off an extremely devastating injury two years ago – an injury to his cruciate ligament – so he could be a injury prone player in years to come.

But in my opinion Stevan Jovetic would a brilliant transfer, a player who could add to the flair and dribbling and exciting football that Abramovich so craves. I say thumbs up to this transfer. What do you say?