Santiago Arias will join Atlético in this next preseason. The 29-year-old Colombian defender has been injured throughout the past season. Atlético loaned him to Leverkusen, since Simeone preferred to stay with Trippier and Vrsaljko. The first was a permanent and almost essential starter and the second did not have a great participation, although he did have to play when the English could not do so.
Arias, 29, has a contract with Atlético until 2023 and was seriously injured on October 10 last year in a match between Colombia and Venezuela. Later he underwent surgery in Madrid for a fracture-dislocation of his left ankle and did not play again. The last months of the exercise were spent recovering, already on the field of play. The assignment to Leverkusen ended and now it returns to the Wanda Metropolitano entity. With the German team he only played one game, against Stuttgart, on October 3. He could barely prove himself.
Arias will do the preseason with Atlético from July 7, although he knows that he has all the ballots to leave. For the Colombian, the most important thing right now is that he start training well with the rojiblanco team and Berta will have to find him a new loan. At Atlético it is very difficult to stay.
Leverkusen had a purchase option on the player, but the serious injury turned everything upside down. The summer and the preseason games will mark the future of the Colombian right-back. The player, before getting injured, had a good sign in LaLiga, so Berta will sound out teams for a loan.