News about Luka Ilic

BY NICK HARRIS, a highly rated 18-year-old defensive midfielder from Croatia, when Manchester City acquired him on the final day of the 2019 January transfer window for a fee paid by the BBC and others of about £7 million. He was the captain of the Croatia Under 19s and was described as a potential long-term replacement to Fernandinho at the Etihad, but he was not allowed to stay on loan at Hajduk Split, where he was an academy product. Palaversa spent 2019-20 on loan at Oostende, Belgium, the following season on loan at Getafe in Spain, and then 2021-22 on loan at Kortrijk in Belgium. He joined Troyes in France on a permanent basis in the summer of 2022 for a fee that was believed to be negligible or nothing. Last year, he was one of four players to transfer from City to Troyes. Luka Ilic moved last summer, while Marlos Moreno and Erik Palmer-Brown went into the 2022 January window. They had collectively spent more than 18 years at City, and no one had ever played a single minute for the club.