Atalanta director Luca Percassi denies the model of occasions given by Juventus and Liverpool goal Teun Koopmeiners. ‘He by no means requested us to be offered.’
The midfielder is sizzling property on the switch market and is broadly anticipated to make a transfer to one of many greatest golf equipment on the planet on the finish of this season.
Juve and Liverpool appear to be main the race and so they have been placed on excessive alert when the Dutchman instructed De Telegraaf that he “knowledgeable Atalanta I need to make a switch subsequent summer season. I hope that some choices are put ahead that I can mirror on.
“I hope Atalanta get sum for me. There was already concrete curiosity from Napoli final yr, however the golf equipment have been unable to succeed in an settlement.”
That got here as a shock to Atalanta and their common supervisor Percassi, who gave a really completely different view on the state of affairs.
“This membership is stable and doesn’t must promote,” he instructed L’Eco di Bergamo newspaper.
“Koopmeiners has not been offered to Juve, nor anybody else. Actually, he by no means requested us to be offered.”
The 26-year-old was signed from AZ Alkmaar for €14m in the summertime of 2021 and has gone from energy to energy in Bergamo.
He contributed 12 objectives and 4 assists in 34 aggressive appearances for Atalanta to date this season.
This all helped increase his asking worth to at the very least €50m, particularly as he’s beneath contract till June 2027.