Atlético struggles with Sevilla to sign Mateta, according to 'Bild'

This summer market is looming due to waste in most European clubs. No team plans to carry out high-ranking operations in times full of unknowns. Therefore, the technical secretaries are working at full capacity to try to find good, nice and cheap players. In this line is the information published by the German newspaper va Bild ’, which ensures that Atlético de Madrid and Sevilla pursue the same objective: Jean-Philippe Mateta.

This 23-year-old, 1.92 meter forward belongs to the Mainz 05 Teuton and this has been his second season at the club. He arrived from Olympique de Lyon in the summer of 2018 for eight million euros And until that moment, He has played 54 games, scoring 17 goals and giving four assists to their peers. This season he has barely played 18 games due to a meniscus injury that prevented him from participating the first 14 days of the German championship. Therefore, their numbers are not very striking: three goals and one assist in 1056 minutes. However, a sample of his level is that, in his debut in the Bundesliga, he played 36 games between the League and the Cup, scoring 14 goals and distributing three goal walks.

Mateta is international with France in lower categories and also has Congolese nationality. He has a contract with Mainz 05 until 2023, after expanding it last season and, according to the specialized website Transfermarkt, its market value is 17.5 million eurosTherefore, its possible transfer should not be very high. This is a striker who can complement the rojiblancos strikers, Morata and Diego Costa, and help Atlético increase their goalscoring figures for the coming season. Between both points this campaign has totaled 21 goals (16 Morata and five Costa), a low amount for a team that wants to aspire to all titles nationally and internationally.