Alvaro
Morata hurries his last hours as a forward of the
Atlético de Madrid. The Madrid striker has asked to leave the rojiblanco club and did not even train in the afternoon session that the mattress team held at the Cerro del Espino de Majadahonda. Clear sign that his signing for the Juventus is imminent.
The player arrived late at night to Turin. His presentation with the Italian club will be this Wednesday. He Athletic consolidated his signing this summer with a transfer of around 55 million euros from the Chelsea, after having played a year and a half on loan for the rojiblanco team. He will leave on loan to the Italian team, where he has already played two seasons, in a loan formula plus purchase option. The first, according to Sky Sport, for 10 million euros plus a transfer option for him of 45 million at the end of the season.
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The scenario has changed from a few weeks to now. And the prospects. So Morata, according to the same sources, had some doubt to continue in the Athletic in the interest of Juventus, although the rojiblanco club referred to the termination clause.
For him Athletic, as he expressed then, was a “key” man in the new project, in which the exit in the attack that was being considered was Diego Costa and in which the Madrid '9' started as the apparently starting striker according to the tests of the coaching staff during training and the friendly against Almería.
The permanence of those doubts Morata in its continuity they have changed their course, which now takes the direction of Juventus, the club in which he played for two years, in 2014-15 and 2015-16, with 93 games and scored 27 goals and to which he would return, if everything goes according to plan, to be under the command of coach Andrea Pirlo.
At Atlético de Madrid, in which the final stretch of last season lost the status of starter in the eleven type before Diego
Coast, the attacker has played the last year and a half, with 22 goals in 61 games. Last year he was the best scorer for the Madrid team, with 16 goals in all competitions.