The rumors are constant since it leaked last summer (it was published by the ‘Daily Mail’) que Kieran Trippier He had confessed to his teammates, England, that he was “desperate” to leave Atlético after two years in Spain and return to the Premier. The pages of the English newspapers, since that day, do not stop launching names and names willing to hire the 31-year-old side. Manchester United, Arsenal, Newcastle. The latter seems, in fact, the most interested. This morning ‘The Sun’ insists. He wants it and he wants it for now. In january. The arrival of a Saudi sheikh with 368 million euros to build a ‘new City’ is his argument. A project that they intend to build from behind, from the defense. And one of the chosen ones is the rojiblanco. They figure the transfer at 30 million euros. That is what they would be willing to pay.
Atlético, a club with which Trippier has a contract until June 2023, already declared last summer, when the English clubs kept knocking on his door asking, non-transferable. That or open that door only under one condition: the payment of your clause. 40 million. None of the interested parties reached that figure. Trippier stayed. He is, in fact, an important figure for Cholo. “Being a winger, he has a very high vision of the game for his position. It’s not easy to find a winger like that”, the Argentine coach recognized in an interview with AS last July. His connection with Llorente last season was, in fact, one of the keys to the league championship title achieved by the rojiblancos. His absence in the last four games (Milan in the Champions League and Osasuna, Cádiz and Mallorca) hurts the team and weighs on Llorente, forced to play on the side where his conditions are turned off, the arrival, the stride, the depth.
Injured on November 7, in MestallaAfter falling on his shoulder on a run in the race, he gave him a grade III sprain from which he continues to recover. Although it is going well, five days ago he returned with the group, with his eyes on the derby against Real Madrid next week in the League, oblivious to the rumors that always surround him, those siren songs from England that do not shut up and resonate more and more strongly.