Atalanta manager Ivan Juric has admitted that replacing Super Eagles forward Ademola Lookman would be a major challenge for the club.
The Nigerian international has been strongly linked with a summer move to Serie A rivals Inter Milan.
Speaking to Gianluca Di Marzio, Juric revealed that losing Lookman and Mateo Retegui would leave a significant gap in their attack.
“Ademola was very fair with me, he explained his thoughts,” Juric told Gianluca Di Marzio.
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“We just have to accept the situation. It’s sad that it got to this point. I trained the team when he already had a calf injury, then this happened, so I never really got to work with him. At least it meant that it didn’t influence the squad.
“We lost players who provided 80-90 per cent of our goals and it won’t be easy to replace them. I don’t think anyone will arrive who can replicate the numbers provided by Retegui or Lookman, but we must reinforce with intelligence and widen our list of alternatives.
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