{"id":340276,"date":"2025-08-13T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340276\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:48:13","slug":"fulham-reject-e40m-offer-from-atalanta-for-leeds-united-target-rodrigo-muniz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340276\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulham reject \u20ac40m offer from Atalanta for Leeds United target Rodrigo Muniz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/afc-bournemouth-v-fulham-fc-premier-league-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Fulham have rejected a \u20ac40 million bid from Atalanta for Leeds United target Rodrigo Muniz, according to Sky Switzerland journalist Sacha Tavolieri.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Daniel Farke wants a new striker at the Elland Road club after telling Patrick Bamford to leave, and the Brazilian has emerged as a target.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham want \u20ac50m, but the Whites may need to look elsewhere even if they can afford to meet their demands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 Fulham FC rejected a \u20ac40M offer for Rodrigo Muniz! The Cottagers are demanding \u20ac50M and made that clear to Antonio Percassi during a meeting. <br \/>Muniz is determined to join Atalanta Bergamo and has informed the English club of his intentions.<br \/>\u23f3Wait&amp;See. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/transfers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#transfers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qcOfxyihUE\">pic.twitter.com\/qcOfxyihUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sacha Tavolieri (@sachatavolieri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sachatavolieri\/status\/1955247199966654594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Muniz is determined to join Atalanta and has told Fulham he wants to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Ben Jacobs claimed on Monday that Muniz remains Leeds\u2019 top striker target and they have not given up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rodrigo Muniz is still Leeds\u2019 top striker target. No agreement with Fulham yet, but Leeds haven\u2019t given up hope.<\/p>\n<p>Understand Dominic Calvert-Lewin is another name discussed in case Muniz isn\u2019t possible.\u26aa\ufe0f <\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex_crook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@alex_crook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ip1zD3j4t4\">pic.twitter.com\/Ip1zD3j4t4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacobsBen\/status\/1954916586222957004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Everton star Dominic Calvert-Lewin is another player Leeds have discussed if they fail to sign Muniz.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds want Premier League quality, and the Fulham star fits the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly for them, it appears a move to where Champions League football is available appeals more to him, and Leeds have been here before.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian winger Igor Paixao also opted to join Marseille ahead of the Whites from Feyenoord due to the opportunity to play in the elite European competition.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds had <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsview.co.uk\/2025\/07\/leeds-united-received-emails-from-feyenoord-and-paixaos-representatives-suggesting-respective-terms-had-been-agreed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"received emails\">received emails<\/a> from the Eredivisie club and the attacker\u2019s representatives which suggested that terms had been agreed.<\/p>\n<p>However, he opted for Marseille and Muniz is now expected to reject them for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>The Whites have three weeks to get a deal done for a new number nine if they want to hit the ground running on their Premier League return.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SV_Logo_250x50_PNG.png\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/50;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fulham have rejected a \u20ac40 million bid from Atalanta for Leeds United target Rodrigo Muniz, according to Sky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-340276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115019654329771675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}