Juventus are moving to try and sign Teun Koopmeiners from Atalanta and AC Milan are watching on with interest, according to a report.
As Calciomercato.com report, after purchasing Douglas Luiz from Aston Villa and Khéphren Thuram from Nice, Juventus wants to complete the midfield overhaul with the arrival of Teun Koopmeiners from Atalanta.
Juve director Cristiano Giuntoli already has an agreement over personal terms with the Dutchman and is planning to launch the decisive assault to reach a deal with Atalanta too. To finance the purchase of Koopmeiners, Juventus are willing to sell Dean Huijsen and Matias Soulé.
Why are Milan implicated? In the meantime, Atalanta have already started working to replace Koopmeiners with two new signings. One is Matt O’Riley of Celtic but the other is Marco Brescianini of Frosinone.
Milan boast a 50% resale clause on the latter, and Frosinone value him at €10m, and the report mentions that the Canarini coukd obtain the loan of defender Giorgio Cittadini from Atalanta, who last season played for Monza and Genoa.
Therefore, the eventual sale of Brescianini to La Dea would land Milan around €5m from the resale clause, which is a nice bump to the budget for the summer mercato from a Primavera graduate.