Aleksandar Mitrovic's Dad Allegedly Used Bomb Threat to Force Partizan Transfer

In a world with Peter Odemwingie, no transfer story should really surprise, though this one involving Newcastle United's Aleksandar Mitrovic comes very close.

The former captain of Serbian club Partizan Belgrade, Albert Nadj, claimed that Mitrovic's father went to extreme measures to force his son's transfer to Anderlecht in 2013, per Goal.com.

Nadj, who until recently worked as a transfer coordinator for Partizan, claimed Mitrovic's father threatened to bomb the club if they didn't approve the move to Belgium.

Mitrovic came through Partizan's youth ranks and re-joined the team in 2012 after spending his first professional season at Teleoptik.

After a successful first season, he was starting to attract the attention of the likes of Anderlecht.

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"I was against his transfer," Nadj told Blic. "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."

Mitrovic did make the move to Anderlecht and scored 44 goals in 90 appearances in two seasons in Belgium before joining Newcastle for £13 million in 2015.

[Goal.com]