seeking a high-profile move, parma ac made a successful bid of 9,000 million italian lire (€4,648,112) to sign half of the registration rights of laursen in june 2000, in a deal including parma-owned player anthony šerić remaining at verona on loan. laursen played a further season with verona. after the 2000–01 serie a season, laursen moved to join parma who acquired the remaining 50% of his registration rights for another 9,000 million italian lire (€4,648,112), while šerić in turn made a co-ownership deal with verona in june 2001, for 2,500 million lire (€1,291,142). following only three weeks of training at the club, parma loaned laursen out before he would play any games for the club.