Valverde, Atlético's favorite if Simeone decides to leave

Go ahead that right now, the official message that comes out from the Atletico Madrid is the one Diego Pablo Simeon It has the maximum support from the club. There is no doubt about cholos, just missing. From the offices of the Metropolitano it is insisted that the coach has a contract until 2024 and that, with everything he has given the club, it will be exclusively him who decides when and how to leave it.

In the club, this moment is spoken of as temporary, as something temporary. Simeone He has already shown on other occasions his ability to move teams in difficulty forward. The goal right now is to qualify for the Champions and build again in the upcoming preseason, with new players, deleting everything that hasn’t worked this course, correcting the mistakes.

That and no other is the scenario contemplated by the Athletic for the coming campaign, let it be Simeone the coach and that the team plays Champions League.

But with that and with everything, the club also works in the face of possible contingencies that may arise. And one of them is that Simeone is the one who decides to end the red and white adventure ahead of time. We already said that it is not what you want, but you have to have a plan B.

And right now, the favorite to replace the Argentine coach in case he decides to leave, is Ernest Valverdeformer coach of Villarreal, Athletic Bilbao, Valencia O FC Barcelona among others. The cacereño is an old wish of the management of the Athleticsince heading to Villarreal. However, the times of the rojiblanco team and those of the coach have never crossed, they have always gone along parallel paths without ever coinciding that the team needed a coach and he was free.

At Athletic His personality, experience, leadership skills in difficult changing rooms and his winning mentality are valued. Sum ten titles achieved in Olympiacos, Athletic and Barça.

OTHER OPTIONS

Another coach who likes a lot in the offices of the Metropolitan is Luis Enrique, but that in this case is unfeasible because he is the Spanish national coach. Names like that of Stefano Piolli O Simone Inzaghi -names these unlikely-, but on the agenda of the rojiblanco managers there are older names like those of George Jesus O Marcelo Gallardo. In any case, we already said, the one you like the most is Ernest Valverde, but just in case Simeone throw in the towel.