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Football League World's Fulham fan pundit Charles Jones has provided his opinion on whether Fulham should have sold star striker Aleksandar Mitrovic this summer or not, whilst also weighing in with his thoughts on the Serbian's long-term future at the club. 

Mitrovic has been in stunning form for the Whites this term, scoring eight goals in a blistering start to the campaign, which has come off the back of the former Anderlecht man signing a new five-year contract with the club this summer, killing off any speculation surrounding his future.

As such, we decided to ask our fan pundit for his thoughts on whether the club's decision to not cash in on the Serbian international was the right one, to which Jones responded:

"Absolutely not, Mitrovic was the main catalyst for our last promotion campaign.

"If we needed to balance the books, there were much more efficient ways of doing that such as selling Ryan Sessegnon and getting Andre-Franck Zambo Anguissa and Jean Michael Seri off the books."

Jones was then asked whether he thought we would see Mitrovic being sold by the club in the near future, to which he replied:

"He’ll almost certainly be here until the end of the season as he signed a new deal this summer and seems committed to getting the club back to the Premier League.

"If we don’t achieve promotion this season I think that he’d have every right to want a move away, and I think that is what would happen as he’s too good to waste a decent portion of his career in the Championship.

And as for how much Jones expects Fulham to make from Mitrovic's eventual sale, he said:

"If he does go I don’t think we should be accepting anything less than £30m for him, as we’ve just seen Neal Maupay move for £16m to Brighton this summer and Mitro is twice the player he is."

Given the fact that Mitrovic has signed his new deal, it is clear that he sees his long-term future at Fulham, meaning that Whites fans can most likely rest easy until next summer at least.

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