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Former Juventus midfielder Alessio Tacchinardi didn’t mince his phrases when discussing the underperforming Teun Koopmeiners.
The Bianconeri splashed circa 60 million to safe the signing of the Dutchman from Atalanta following gruelling negotiations. Nevertheless, the crowds on the Allianz Stadium have but to witness the midfielder who took Serie A by storm throughout his three campaigns in Bergamo.
The 26-year-old has been failing to impress for the reason that begin of the season, solely netting as soon as in Serie A, as he appears to have left his scoring boots on the Gewiss Stadium.
Whereas Thiago Motta had initially thought-about him an undroppable participant as a consequence of his ‘distinctive’ traits, he omitted him in favour of Weston McKennie within the first leg of the Champions League play-off spherical towards PSV Eindhoven, which was fairly telling contemplating the importance of that fixture.
For Tacchinardi, the participant’s challenge isn’t technical nor tactical, however as an alternative psychological. The 49-year-old, who additionally made the transfer from Atalanta to Juventus again in 1994, believes Koopmeiners lacks the required character to play for Juventus, whereas urging him to comply with Manuel Locatelli’s instance.
“Koop now finds himself in a troublesome spot. He now not needs the ball in order to not take dangers and be jeered by the followers,” stated Tacchinardi throughout his look on TikiTacco through IlBianconero.
“It is a massive drawback. Both he will get out of it or it may actually be the switch market flop of the season. Take Locatelli who hasn’t had an important begin and the followers used to berate him and now they applaud him. He’s not Zidane however he fights and takes dangers. In the present day, Koop lacks the character to play for Juventus.”
“He has to shake off this concern. I’m a Juventus fan, I used to observe Platini and I like to observe gamers I don’t know however have character. Gatti has it, you would see it towards Benfica. I like these gamers and We’ve had a variety of them. Conceicao and Mbangula or Yildiz have it.”
