Juve market: bianconeri console themselves, comes the'offer you don't expect

While Juventus is licking its wounds after last Sunday’s heavy home defeat against Fiorentina, which practically jeopardized its run-up to the next Champions League, important news is arriving on the market front regarding the biggest disappointment of recent years: Teun Kookpmeiners.

Who arrived for 60 million euros in 2024 from Atalanta, the Dutch midfielder was among the Old Lady’s worst ever signings and will leave Turin for good this summer. According to Tuttosport reports, there would be strong interest in the player from Liverpool, which tried to pick him up from Atalanta a few years ago.

The Reds would be enticed by the demands of Juventus, which would now settle for 30 million euros to dispose of the player for good: a figure needed to avoid a capital loss. An official offer for Koopmeiners, who is also in the notebook of some Turkish clubs and former mentor Gian Piero Gasperini’s Roma.

Roma’s interest is nothing new in recent days. Already in the past weeks, Gazzetta dello Sport had revived the suggestion of a possible exchange between the Giallorossi and Juventus that would also involve defender Evan Ndicka: the Ivorian central, under contract with Roma until 2028 and valued at around 40 million euros, is tempting the Bianconeri management, which could include Koopmeiners himself in the deal to amortize the expense. It is a hypothesis that tickles Gasperini, the same coach who in Bergamo had transformed the Dutchman from a halfback to a trequartista, extracting the best out of him: in three seasons with Atalanta, Koopmeiners had collected 29 goals, compared to just 7 scored in almost two years at Juventus.

It should not be forgotten, moreover, that as early as last January Galatasaray had appeared on the scene, probing the possibility of acquiring the midfielder by proposing a loan with a right of redemption set at under 30 million euros. Juventus, however, had rejected the formula, deeming it insufficient. Paradoxically, it was precisely against the Turks that Koopmeiners had experienced one of the most exhilarating moments of his bianconeri adventure: in Istanbul last February, he had signed a top-level brace in the Champions League match, deluding everyone about a possible revival that never came continuously.