The sports management of the Atletico Madridd handles three options in case the Valencia does not agree to the transfer of Daniel Wass. The alternatives to reinforce the right side are the Spanish Maffeo, the Danish Rasmus Kristensen, the Italian Mattia De Sciglio and portuguese Diogo Dalot.
The first choice to replace Kieran Trippier is danish Daniel Wass, whose main demarcation is that of a midfielder, but who can also play as a right winger or inside. The Valencia does not agree to negotiate with him Athletic until he cannot find a replacement for Wass, who has been international for Denmark 41 times, who ends his contract on June 30.
Atlético has explored the way to bring Rasmus Kristensen, right side of Red Bull Salzburg. He is 24 years old and made his debut with the national team of Denmark last September, after having been fixed with the Danish Under-21. Kristensen has a contract until June 30, 2025, according to the Transfermark website.
Another alternative to be a substitute for Trippier is Italian Mattia De Sciglio, right side of the Juventus, 29, who ends his contract in June. The Juve defender has been caps for Italy 39 times. His departure is now complicated because he is playing due to the injury of Danilo, but the fact of being released in June also works in favor of his departure.
The third of the three that Atlético manages in case the hiring of Wass fails is the Portuguese Diogo Dalot 22 years old. It’s the right side of the Manchester United who can also play as a left back. He ends his contract in 2023 and is now having minutes at Manchester United ahead of Aaron Wan-Bissaka, by taking advantage of some ownership due to physical problems of English. Dalot is international with Portugal and has already played four games with the absolute.
The ideal of Andrea Berta, Athletic director of Atlético, is to close the hiring of the substitute of Trippier next week. The exit of the English right-back in the winter market has been a setback because in the winter market it is difficult to find a replacement of his level. But Miguel Angel Gil had made a commitment to Trippier to let him out because his family has not adjusted to living in Spain and transferred him to Newcastle.
Maffeo
Pablo Maffeo (Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, 1997) is another name that Atlético de Madrid handles, as AS has learned, if the negotiation for Wass is broken with Valencia in this winter market. A Wass who wants to go to Atlético but his coach, José Bordalás, does not. This is how the technician made it known to the sports area, which will not facilitate his departure. LAnd Atlético has 18 market days left to try to cover the ‘Trippier hole’, due to the march of English to Newcastle. A Maffeo on loan this season to Mallorca from Stuttgart for half a million euros and a purchase option for the vermilion club for 3.5 million of euros that would be mandatory in the event that Luis García Plaza’s team achieves permanence.
Maffeo is a fundamental footballer in Mallorca at the moment. The second with the most minutes in the squad, with 1,506, the first from the field, only behind goalkeeper Reina. Starter in 18 games out of 18, with one goal and four yellow cards. It also fulfills something that Wass lacks and that is that he is a natural right back and not converted, as in the case of Danish. He is also 24 years old, by Wass’s 32.
Trippier’s departure disrupted Cholo’s squad, who lost one of his fundamental pieces, the English side and entered 12 million euros, plus two in variables, for that operation this winter. Broken the couple that was one of the weapons of last LaLiga, to achieve the title of champions, the one made up of the Englishman and Marcos Llorente, it was precisely the latter who took his place in his absence. Because before leaving it had already been the turn of the ’14’ to take his place in the team, the right back, in the five games that the Englishman was absent due to a grade III man sprain, with what that means, the reverse of last season’s numbers. Zero goals where there were 13, two assists where there were 12. The side is not his natural place, although it is where Simeone at this time when he is still looking for his men, his scheme, fits him. Naturals, on their campus, only have Vrsaljko. Maffeo would be too. Your name is on the agenda.