Liverpool Target Skipping Training Sparks Debate Amid Transfer Drama!
Liverpool target and Atalanta midfielder Teun Koopmeiners has reportedly skipped Atalanta training which fuels the transfer rumours.
Liverpool have been one of the quietest clubs in the transfer market this summer in terms of new signings despite being linked with many players.
However, that could change in the coming days with this recent development.
Koopmeiners Misses Atalanta Training
According to recent reports, Dutch midfielder Koopmeiners has missed pre-season training session recently on purpose.
Koopmeiners is attracting huge interest from Juventus and Liverpool this summer. And according to Atalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini, to force a £45m transfer out, the midfielder has done so.
“The situation with him was going very well until last week, then the player decided to go to Juventus. He already has an agreement, he feels stressed and has decided not to play or train with us anymore.”
Gian Piero Gasperini on Koopmeiners’ situation.
Gasperini has expressed his frustration by further stating,
“With this attitude he cannot be useful to the team, nor to his teammates. The club therefore has taken a very firm line, because we feel blackmailed by this situation. It’s different from the other times in which Atalanta has sold valuable players to bigger teams.
I’m already ready [for the new season], on the starting blocks, and I wouldn’t want to have to drag along those who are still celebrating last season. We are now in a much more difficult situation than we could have foreseen.”
The situation has developed in such a negative manner that the Italian manager had to utter that the club feels ‘blackmailed’.
Although the Reds have a strong liking for the 26-year-old and Reds head coach Arne Slot is familiar with the midfielder due to their past, LFC are miles behind of Juventus.
So the Merseysiders must look into other prospects for strengthening the squad going into the 2024-25 season.
The reports linking Spanish midfielder Zubimendi to a potential Anfield move are quite intriguing at the moment.
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