Liverpool could move on from Koopmeiners to chase 23y/o who Slot loves

Teun Koopmeiners‘ title has finished 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 time.

Nevertheless, regardless of reportedly being a participant who the Reds’ new head coach may be very wanting 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 might as an alternative flip their consideration to options reminiscent of 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 – might certainly be a worthy various 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 objectives 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 essential leagues in 2023/24 for non-penalty xG (high 1%), assists (high 2%), shot-creating actions (high 3%), non-penalty objectives (high 4%) and photographs taken (high 7%) per 90 minutes.

Timber clearly provides a potent attacking risk and, if the pursuit of Koopmeiners turns into a transparent useless finish, might be value a telephone 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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