For the Atalanta leadership, Luis Fernando Muriel and Duván Zapata would be untouchable

Last week there was talk of Chelsea’s interest in signing Duván Zapata next season, given the difficulty of linking Norwegian striker Erling Haaland to the team, sought after by the big European clubs thanks to his dream season with German Borussia Dortmund.

And on March 27, the Italian media announced that Luis Fernando Muriel, who like Duván is one of the pillars of Atalanta, It would be one of the choices of the Inter Milan coach, Antonio Conte, to strengthen the team.

The truth is that, despite the rumors, the club, whose coach is Italian Gian Piero Gasperini, would be far from letting the coffee forwards go. This season, Luis Fernando Muriel accumulates 20 annotations, 16 of them in the crazy leaguel, three of them in the Champions League and one in the Italian Cup.

However, Duván Zapata has 14 goals this season, 10 of them in Calcio and four in the Champions League. And in Europe he reached 106 annotations, an enviable figure.

Well, despite the 40 million euros that could be given for Duván and the 35 for Luis Fernando Muriel, the leadership of the Italian club would have other plans for them, according to the portal Calciomercato.com.

“Zapata and Muriel, for the Percassi skipper, are untouchable, there is no Barcelona or Inter that is worth it. Even the Nerazzurri of Bergamo have a project, in fact, they have had it for 5 years, including the Champions League ”, the newspaper in question explains in an article.

Calciomercato.com He also added: “It is unlikely that 25 million will be enough for the Colombian (Duván) hired until June 2023 with a salary of 1.8 million euros net per year. And Muriel does not think about being a substitute for Lukaku ”.

Duván Zapata reached 106 goals in 267 European games, a figure that every Colombian and world striker would like.

Above the ‘bull’ is Radamel Falco García (249 goals), who has played 394 games in Porto, Atlético de Madrid, Monaco, Chelsea, Manchester United and Galatasaray (currently); behind Duván Zapata is James Rodríguez, with 99 touchdowns in 354 meetings with Porto, Monaco, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Everton.

Duván Zapata has scored 11 goals with Sampdoria (32 games), 15 with Napoli (53 games), 19 with Udinese (65 games) and 61 with Atalanta (119 games).

Of the 61 goals for the team led by Gian Piero Gasperini, 14 have been this season. Zapata has scored 10 goals in Calcio, three in the Champions League and one in the Italian Cup. He has also given eight assists (being the team’s maximum pass goal) of the 46 he accumulates in the Italian league. And of 38 games in which he has played, in 27 he has been in the starting position.

Colombian striker Luis Fernando Muriel, a Serie A figure and a key man in Atalanta’s great campaign, reached the last international break as the footballer with the second best goal average of the five major European leagues, behind only Robert Lewandowski.

With a goalscoring record of 16 in the Italian Serie A, three in the UEFA Champions League and one in the Italian Cup, Muriel records 20 encounters with the network, in which he entered as a revulsive fifteen times of the 28 dates disputed – so far – in Serie A.

In addition, he is the top scorer for his club so far this season and before the Fifa date to be played in the last week of March, he is the second best scorer in Europe.

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