Juve has made the Dutchman their main target for this transfer window and has been tipped to sign him for several weeks.
The Bianconeri have reportedly reached an agreement on personal terms with the midfielder for over two months.
They are confident he will not change his mind and are focusing on raising the funds needed to add him to their squad.
Atalanta does not want to sell Koopmeiners and has set an asking price of around 60 million euros for his signature.
The midfielder, on the other hand, wants the move, but Juventus’s opening offer may not be enough to secure his transfer.
Pundit Stefano Impallomeni expects Atalanta to make things tough for the Bianconeri, suggesting that negotiations could be challenging.
He said, as quoted by Tuttomercatoweb:
“Juve is putting in a suffocating push to bring home a midfielder with undoubted qualities but Atalanta doesn’t want to give him up. It’s a constant refrain now. We’ve understood that the Nerazzurri club wants to keep him and isn’t willing to sell him off anyway”.
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Koopmeiners helped The Goddess to win the last Europa League, so we do not expect them to allow him to leave easily.
They won`t sell him and they don`t need to. They are going to play in the UCL and they could be a dark horse for the scudetto. Why would they sell. Go see the final with Leverkusen and how good Koopmeiners and Ederson were. He is extremely important for how Gasp plays and they are playing Real Madrid in 2 weeks. Atalanta is always extremely well prepared and they won`t sell him this late in the season. Regardless, I hope Guintoli have accounted for all this when he sold Soule. Koop will stay at Atalanta.
Agree. I also hope Soule sacrifice was not for nothing.
I was hoping there would be some chance to go for Bijol (Udinese).
He would be cheeper than Todibo, play on the left side in the centre defense and he was impressing at the Euro. Also have plenty of serie A matches under his belt. If our present is not financial strong then would be better to buy quality players who are cost less. Remember when we were lost in the middle and then Marotta bring some quality players for low budget (Pogba, Vidal, Pirlo,….10-20 M) for all three, maybe I am wrong. And definitely mister Guintoli have some similar experiences with Napoli, buy unknown quality players for cheap. It’s better to look elswhere if we struggle to find solutions to complete the deal.
Yes I think Juve are spending a lot on certain players and wonder how all of this will turn out in the end. Guintoli is a great mercato manager who thinks about everything it seems so we shall see. But underselling Soule for less than 30 mill only to bring in another winger valued 45-50 don`t seems to make much sense if finances were the issue.
Just buy that Atalanta target Celtic player O’Riley or smth and give them some headache. By the way, he is a good alternative, and could be possible even to use him as bait for Koopmeiners to lower the price, say 20-25 M€ + player. Could be a win win. Either we use him in the deal or keep him. This could be one of the solution. Maybe we could even offer Celtic some of our deadwood to lower the price.
Agree on O’Riley allthough I suppose there is always some risk bringing in someone foreign to the league. I can hardly see us loosing on such a deal though since he will be half the price of Koop and is young and talented. I am also a bit suprised we have pulled out for Samardzic as the kid has a great talent and cost around 20-25 and has several seasons in Serie A under his belt. He is for sure more of an attacking midfielder and thrive working from the right. Pherhaps they want someone more physical than him.