It is more than a year since Lukic, now 27, was signed from Torino of Italy ’s Serie A for €8million (£6.8m; $8.7m at current rates).

“We lost a great player,” Torino coach Ivan Juric said on Wednesday, a day after Sasa Lukic concluded his transfer to Fulham, for a fee worth in the region of £8million ($9.8m). “We emerge ...