Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 00:10• Jeroen van Poppel • Last update: 00:19

Orkun Kökçü is in the interest of Fiorentina, assures Gianluca Di Marzio. However, the 21-year-old Feyenoord midfielder is not the first option for the Italians, who will first try to get Antonín Barák loose from Hellas Verona. If that fails, Fiorentina may enter the market for Kökçü.

Fiorentina, which will receive FC Twente in the play-offs of the Conference League on Thursday, hopes to convince Verona of an exchange deal for Barák. La Viola is willing to send Szymon Zurkowski to the north of Italy in exchange for the 27-year-old Czech, who has already played thirty times for his country. Barák is in his second season for Verona, who paid six million euros for him to Udinese. In addition to Barák and Kökçü, Fiorentina also considers Empoli’s Nedim Bajrami as an option in midfield.

For the time being, the interest in the Feyenoord midfielder is not yet too concrete. The team from Rotterdam threatens to lose the entire midfield of last season this summer. Arne Slot had to watch as Guus Til was taken over by PSV from Spartak Moscow, while Fredrik Aursnes is well on his way to Benfica. This summer, they were replaced by Quinten Timber (FC Utrecht), Sebastian Szymanski (Dinamo Moscow) and Mats Wieffer (Excelsior).

The coverage of Fiorentina’s interest in Kökçü is not new: earlier this summer, 1908.nl that the Turkish international was not warm to a switch to Florence. Kökçü is also said to have rejected a doctoral candidate in the Premier League. Leicester City was also named around his person. Bee the Foxes Kökçü would be in the picture as a replacement for Youri Tielemans, who, however, still plays in Leicester. Kökçü himself feels very much at home at Feyenoord and has just recovered from an injury.


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