Teun Koopmeiners

E lui fa vedere la personalità sul campo, è un po' lo specchio di quello che è stato un po' nella sua infanzia.

Ma dà più soddisfazione vedere crescere un giovane che hai lanciato o magari, eh, recuperare un giocatore che si è perso? A me viene in mente Koopmeiners.

Sappiamo tutti, l'abbiamo visto il Koopmeiners vero, e sono già due anni che si è totalmente perso.

Ci sarà un allenatore che, eh, lo aiuta a ritrovarsi.

Anche questa immagino sia una cosa-

[risata] E dall'altra parte io forse faccio un po' più fatica, sono un po' più adatto per caratteristiche a fare questo, a, a sviluppare dei giocatori.

Però che dall'altra parte il contesto secondo me fa tanto.

Hai fatto un esempio, Koopmeiners è indiscutibilmente un giocatore forte.

That doesn't stop.

Koopmeiners, I can name a couple other ones.

Look, um, I don't rate Cambiaso.

Mm.

But where, why have we fallen off the perch so much?

Mm.

You know, and Koopmeiners and these type of players.

Mate, what are ...

Their pressure increased and more players began entering advanced positions, but the equalizer still required an enormous mistake.

In the fifty-eighth minute, a player by the name of Koopmeiners sent a delivery into the penalty area.

Marcos Alonso attempted to control the ball with his chest rather than clearing it.

The touch fell directly towards Woltemade, and the German striker reacted immediately and drove his volley into the bottom corner.

Mm-hmm.

But Vicario, Kululu, Gatti, Kelly, McKennie, Koopmeiners, Sarr, Cambiaso, Conceição, Alibecic, Voltemar.

I'm actually happy the way it worked out that we get different guys here, 'cause we kind of went-

Mm-hmm

... yeah, I would've broken it up a bit.

I probably would've played one of Bremer or Lukumi, uh, from the start.

Um, Koopmeiners in the midfield, I mean, geez, if you can't play him in this game...

And I mean, we'll get to it I'm sure.

At the end, the responsibilities [chuckles] are, are the same.

Uh, uh, the other day, if Koopmeiners scores the goal, uh, you know that he connects it really well.

He's on one assist for Brad Col-- for Bradley Barcola.

You know, his performance is exactly the same.

Because at what point, how do you see that kind of discussion there?

I think it all comes with creativity really because nowadays central forwards they need support from the team they need to have a strong team behind them when Milan played with the 3-4-2-1 system which I won't rule out for the future anyway one of the two attacking midfielders if not both sometimes were not actual attacking midfielders but central midfielders loaned to an attacking midfielder role you would remember Adrien Rabiot playing there you would remember Ruben Loftus-Cheek playing there then close to either Çiçarı then Pulisic returned as well the problem is that Milan yeah they they create some chances but they don't create enough chances to help the the striker Gonzalo Ramos could and then there will be more and more and more and more pressure on him because he's not going to rest again there are issues this is not the first thing that the first time we discuss it Nima the way this team has been built the other option besides Ramos is is Francesco Camarda with all the respect due he scored one goal with Lecce last season he was injured for a lot of for a long time with a shoulder injury he's still 18 people on social media talk about Camarda like he's 26 and he failed already at the senior level it's not the case he's very young player but he's Milan second option in attack so when Ramos goes on the bench and Camarda starts I think that will put that will give Ramos even even more problems because currently there is no other option than play Ramos play Ramos play Ramos play Ramos and you know there's only there is only one way to to to make you to to make a striker to make people stop talking about strikers in a better way you gotta score goals and and Ramos has I think he's on paper still better than your average Serie A striker but at the same time there's another problem which is the price tag now when you come and score when you come and you have been paid 75 million 10 goals is enough I don't think so 12 is enough I don't think so 15 I don't know you need to score a lot a lot a lot of goals look there are so many good players who have been paid hell a lot of money and they haven't been judged for their performances on the pitch but for the value and for the money they've been paid if you look at Teun Koopmeiners for example he's a decent central midfielder normal central midfielder if you put it at Juventus 10 15 millions if Juventus had buy him for that fee nobody would complain they got him for 60 million and of course he's always going to be a flop so Gonzalo Ramos has to do a lot of work not to finish in that flop list but not because of his qualities mostly because of the sum he was signed for

Indeed.

Let's move to Roma and the game against Como.

It's because you can't bring in a Luis Mia or, or, or Jesus Rodriguez in at Milan or, or at Juve, um, and perform under that pressure immediately.

Uh, which Juve saw that with Koopmeiners, and he came from an established standpoint at, Atlanta.

And it's, it's a completely different ball game.

It's, it's, it's like, like I personally feel like it's like asking a top six Premier League club to completely replicate Brighton & Hove Albion.

... it's normal.

Juve spend that.

Th- Koopmeiners went to 50 million.

Great player, but they didn't have a plan for him.

The Netherlands won two-one.

Teun Koopmeiners opened the scoring for the Netherlands in the thirty-first minute, making the score one-nil.

Serbia responded four minutes later, with Mihailo Ivanović scoring in the thirty-fifth minute to equalize the score at one-one.

The halftime score was one-one.

Yeah, it's something.

But yeah, Koopmeiners, uh, scored a, I don't know, somewhat fortunate goal, but then apparently I didn't see the game, but he was seemingly at fault for the equalizer against Serbia.

Well-

So-

[laughs]

Well, he lost, I think it was something about he lost a, a header or yeah, lost a aerial duel, and that led to the goal, so which, I mean, strange 'cause he's a big guy so, you know.

But yeah, that is, uh, Koopmeiners' status.

I mean, nevertheless, still strong start to the season-