Atlético, for Gonzalo Villar

Atlético continues to create the squad for next season. With the preseason just started and the bulk of the team absent due to the dispute of international tournaments, the project goes through a continuous summer, with little change in the league champion and the main idea of ​​keeping his spine.

But, where more movement can take place is in the center of the field. Atlético will be reinforced with Rodrigo de Paul, who is completing an extraordinary Copa América and has been performing at a very high level for years at Udinese. However, the club continues to study incorporations for that strip of the field and has set its eyes on Gonzalo Villar. The 23-year-old Murcian midfielder is one of the great evolutions in Roma, participating in 47 games last season and has been international in the lower categories of the National Team, with a leading role in the last U21 Eurocup.

Organizing footballer who can also act as a pivot, A position where there are fewer natural strengths, Atlético is very interested in its future, as AS has learned. Its market value in Transfermarkt It is 15 million, although to launch for his signing they would have to produce exits. Lucas Torreira dissociated himself of the club after completing his loan from Arsenal and Saul's future is up in the air. The youth squad would see with good eyes a change of scene after his loss of prominence in Simeone's schemes and in the Premier League he enjoys a great poster, with Liverpool with the last suitor.

Atlético, which is also open to negotiating his departure, will not give away a player who has been key in recent seasons and who is still 26 years old, so the economic operation would have to be important. The club must also analyze the future of Héctor Herrera, in his last year of contract and about to start the Gold Cup with Mexico. Last year it took a step forward and when it was available it left a good performance in the engine room. But the injuries and the coronavirus deprived him of having greater continuity. Atlético in principle has its continuity, but it is before the last opportunity to obtain economic revenue from the 31-year-old footballer.

In the event that movements occur, on behalf of Gonzalo Villar he is at the fore. In January 2020, he arrived at Roma from Elche and could return to Spain to show growth in his game. His brother Javier has just signed for Real Madrid and Atlético is a very attractive club, fixed in the Champions League (Roma finished in seventh place last season) and that yesterday announced the extension of the continuity of Simeone in his bench, a coach who always motivates and could make a leap in Villar's career.