Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini accepts Josip Ilicic will leave this summer.
The midfielder is being linked with Fiorentina.
"We will not but dropping the price for Josip to anyone," he told itasportpress.it. "But it looks very difficult for him to stay.
"I'd say it was 90 per cent that he was going away.
"There are some big Italian teams looking at him, as well as Bayer [Leverkusen]."