Rumour Mongering: Liverpool Still Want €60M-Rated Teun Koopmeiners
Liverpool were linked with the Atalanta midfielder last summer but it’s hard to see where he fits into the squad a year later.
Once a rumoured Liverpool target in the transfer market, always a rumoured Liverpool target in the transfer market. So it seems to go sometimes in the land of rumour mongering, where previously established links provide an easy fallback and an air of plausibility.
So we find ourselves with outlets in Italy this week reaching back to last summer, when Jürgen Klopp’s Reds were linked with standout Atalanta midfielder Teun Koopmeiners, with CalcioMercato claiming that Koopmeiners could now be a target for Arne Slot’s Reds.
The 26-year-old midfielder would have been a key man at the Euros for Netherlands this summer but a muscle issue ruled him out. There’s also been plenty of chatter in Italy in recent months around his future, with most expecting he’ll be moving on from Atalanta.
Juventus have been regularly mentioned in Italy, and now Premier League sides including Chelsea, Manchester United, and Liverpool are being added to the list with Atalanta said to be willing to sell Koopmeiners for around €60M. The player’s contract runs through 2027.
It’s not a terrible price for a talented midfielder, but it’s hard to see the links to Liverpool as anything other than lazy rumour mongering given Koopmeiners shades to the attacking side of midfield and the Reds seem better stocked there than anywhere on the pitch.
If signed, Koopmeiners would arrive to compete directly with the last summer’s signings Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, and Ryan Gravenberch as well as club-trained talent Curtis Jones and Harvey Elliott and put simply we expect the Reds to spend elsewhere.
All of which seems to add up to lazy rumour mongering, then, or perhaps a situation where either Atalanta or the player are looking to name-drop Liverpool to their own ends and happy to do so given last summer’s already solidly established links to the player.
Source: liverpooloffside.sbnation.com
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