Teun Koopmeiners‘ title has achieved the rounds within the Liverpool switch circuit for a while, with these hyperlinks intensifying since his former boss Arne Slot took cost at Anfield this summer season.
Nonetheless, regardless of reportedly being a participant who the Reds’ new head coach may be very desperate to signal, the membership could also be compelled to desert their pursuit of the 26-year-old in the event that they proceed to treat Atalanta’s £50m+ valuation as extreme.
To that impact, CaughtOffside have reported that LFC may as an alternative flip their consideration to alternate options corresponding to Quinten Timber, who’s now being thought of a ‘concrete’ choice and is a participant who our boss extremely appreciates from their shared time at Feyenoord.
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Timber – whose twin brother Jurrien performs for Arsenal – may certainly be a worthy different to Koopmeiners if Atalanta and Liverpool can’t see eye-to-eye on a valuation for the 26-year-old.
The Feyenoord midfielder ended final season with eight targets and 10 assists from 44 appearances – not fairly as prolific as his elder compatriot in Bergamo however nonetheless a greater than respectable return.
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Moreover, as per FBref, the 23-year-old ranked very extremely amongst his positional friends in Europe’s major leagues in 2023/24 for non-penalty xG (high 1%), assists (high 2%), shot-creating actions (high 3%), non-penalty targets (high 4%) and pictures taken (high 7%) per 90 minutes.
Timber clearly gives a potent attacking risk and, if the pursuit of Koopmeiners turns into a transparent useless finish, may very well be price a cellphone name or two to the Rotterdam membership’s hierarchy, particularly given the Slot connection.
Soccer Transfers cites his market worth at simply €17.7m (£15m), and whereas realistically Feyenoord would demand considerably greater than that, we’d wager that he’d nonetheless be fairly attainable for a decrease price than his Dutch counterpart at Atalanta.
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