Marseille-Atalantathe first leg of the Europa League semi-finals which will kick off this evening at 9pm at the Velodrome stadium will have highly interested spectators who will not be rooting for either of the two teams taking to the field, but who they will carefully observe the race. These are Juventus’ transfer market menwho in the ranks of the two teams have much more than a simple objective, especially in terms of key shot in midfield.
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KOOPMEINERS THE FAVORITE – It’s no secret that this it will be Teun Koopmeiners’ last season with the Atalanta shirt. He confirmed it himself in a recent interview also confirming that he hopes for a large profit for the Bergamo club. It’s no secret either that Cristiano Giuntoli has had him at the top of his list for some time of the objectives to strengthen the Juventus midfield department, but it is just as important as, for one valuation that already exceeds 50 million of euros, a large transfer will first be needed to generate a budget that can be reinvested.
EDERSON AND OUNAHI – For this reason the Turin club does not have the Dutchman born in 1998 as the only lead to follow and, in Marseille-Atalanta, two other profiles that have been followed for some time will take to the field. This is the Nerazzurri Brazilian Edersonconsidered more as an alternative to Locatelli in front of the director than as a midfielder (and the Italian would regain his original role) and for whom there is a much lower evaluation than Koopmeiners, and of the Moroccan Azzedine Ounahi, born in 2000, paid “only” 8 million in January 2023 and who, after his success at the World Cup in Qatar, is not finding absolute ownership at OM. Finally, although he cannot be part of the race because he is excluded from the UEFA lists, too Jean Onana, Cameroonian born in 2000 on loan with right of redemption to Marseille, but owned by Besiktas (former AC Milan target), he remains a more physical and less qualitative profile, like Kessie, another old obsession of sporting director Giuntoli. Ideas, names, objectives, Juventus is looking carefully at the European super challenge.
