Colombian forward Duvan Zapata with extensive experience in Italian Serie A He will be the new reinforcement of Cruz Azul for the Apertura 2024 tournament, revealed various journalistic versions that confirmed the rumor that the Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano, who had managed that the coffee gunner could be an option for the Celeste Machine.
This version was confirmed this Wednesday in circles close to the Cruz Azul board, who confirmed to La Opinión that the negotiations were open and that there was an 80 percent chance of incorporating the forward with experience at Udinese, Sampdoria, Napoli, Atalanta and Torino, this last squad that confirmed that Zapata was no longer part of their plans .
The signing of Duvan Zapata confirms that the cement board will negotiate Diber Cambindo to Necaxa or another team that is interested in his services, after the brilliant season he had in the Liga MX, overcoming the adaptation season he had with the Celeste Machine in the Apertura 2023 tournament where he did not do very well and for that reason the coach Martín Anselmi authorized his loan to the hydrorayos.
Without a doubt, the signing will be the second important contract for Cruz Azul and will exceed ten million dollars. How was the hiring of the Uruguayan Gabriel “Toro” Fernández at eleven million dollars and now Duvan Zapata at $14 million dollars
It should be noted that these amounts double what the representatives of Colombian striker Rafael Santos Borré were asking for. and that he was linked to the cement producers in the previous championship when Óscar “Conejo” Pérez served as sports director.
It is assured that in the negotiation Torino will receive $6 million dollars, $4 million dollars for the company that owns its letter and another $4 million dollars for the Uruguayan Fernando Pavón, representative of the sports director of the Celeste Machine Iván Alonso.
Duvan Zapata was one of the options in a deck that had names like Radamel Falcao, Miguel Borja and even Carlos Vela, but in the end they decided on the 33-year-old striker in a signing that will try to cover the absence of a true killer in the area for the Celeste Machine.
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