This summer’s transfer market has only one catchphrase. More than Leao who can leave but has no offers. More than Chiesa who can leave but has no offers. More than Osimhen who can leave but has no offers. It’s Teun Koopmeiners who can’t leave – for Atalanta – and has no offers (from Juventus). At least for now, of course, but there has been no offer of 45 million euros from the Bianconeri. No club confirms the circumstance, knowing full well what the starting price is or, in any case, the figure to get to the queen. That is 60 million. Below that it is very difficult to find an agreement, if not impossible. All the interpreters know this, because after having refused 47 million a year ago, from Napoli, there is a new consideration at Atalanta. That is that Koopmeiners wanted to play in the Champions League, he will do it. He has the European Super Cup and before that appointment it is almost impossible. Then Coppa Italia, another Super Cup, Scudetto. There will be no time to complain about not going to a big team.
Then there is Juventus, convinced to close the deal. They know they have the arguments to convince Atalanta, Koopmeiners already has an agreement – it’s not difficult when you earn “little”, better to write it in quotation marks – the offer will arrive. It’s August 3rd and the soap opera has been going on for at least two months, the money would be there now, better to use the conditional, the one that will be formulated will be 50 million plus bonuses. Good? Bad? Acceptable? No? It will be up to Atalanta to respond, but currently the tunnel is narrow and it is difficult to move much: either you arrive at the lady with a proposal, or there is no room for disruptive maneuvers (like Gonzalez or O’Riley), because eventually in Bergamo they can remain like this.
Photographing the situation: Juventus is convinced to close. Atalanta that Koopmeiners will remain in Bergamo. In the middle there are rumors and also the sorties, not from the clubs but from the agents. In these situations, that is with a very important player to move, they are there too. Who yearn, without a doubt, for a transfer of Koopmeiners to Juve to ask for money both from the Bianconeri, who buy, and from the Nerazzurri, who sell. A bit like a real estate agent, if you have ever bought a house (or sold). Wassermann is a large, enormous agency, and it works to get millionaire commissions. Right or wrong, the project exists for Koopmeiners – he is not going to a mid-table club – and also for his entourage. So it is normal that there is a third push in addition to that of the clubs to hurry and hope to close. Up to now, however, we are just hoping. Maybe tomorrow it will be a certainty.
Finally, a little lesson on the market: when you refuse an offer of 60 million, the player asks for a raise, that’s for sure. When you bring an offer of 60 million, if you’re the agent, the commission will surely be pretty fat, because we’re around 10% basic. Then you can get to 7-8%, or 12-13%, depending on who and how. For Vlahovic it was 11 million commission on 75 paid. Agents shouldn’t be blamed if they want to close deals that can change your life, it would be wrong and inhumane. However, as much as they can, they try to influence soap operas. And the one for Koopmeiners continues to be wide open.