Trippier’s hole has been a very heavy slab that Atlético has dragged this season. First due to his injury at Mestalla, he had a grade III sprain in his left shoulder, which kept him out of six games, from mid-November to mid-December. Then his departure to Newcastle in January. In fact, he wanted to leave since the summer: in the European Championship he confessed to his English teammates that he wanted to return to the Premier. And you know, who says that he wants to leave, in reality he has already left.
Wass was a solution in that emergency market but ended up being a ghost signing: He was injured in the first game he played with Atlético and then he never came back, not even when he was available. Atlético is already working on propping up that position. One of the names on the agenda is Jonathan Clauss (Strasbourg, France, 1992). The request of the Argentine is clear: that it be a long side, that he adapts well to the line of five that made him champion of the League a year ago and that he adds in attack. Clauss has been one of the best full-backs in Ligue 1 this season (with five goals and eleven assists) and is open to a way out. He has confessed himself.
Atlético has been following him for a long time. In the last winter market, when Wass arrived, his option was tested at the rojiblanco club. Olocip, according to artificial intelligence data, highlights his potential from set pieces, the second best passer in Ligue 1.