From Italy they bring Torreira closer to Atlético de Madrid

Lucas Torreira (24 years old) is the piece that Atlético is missing to close its squad. After consummating the signing of Luis Suarez as a replacement for Morata and waiting for exits in the club that cause more movements, Uruguayan is the last name linked to the rojiblancos. The Arsenal midfielder, an old desire of Simeone since he played for Sampdoria, wants to get out of the ‘gunners’ and Londoners are willing to fulfill their wishes, since it does not enter into the plans of his technician, Mikel Arteta.

As we already reported this week, the colchoneros have an important competitor to take over the Uruguayan: Torino. The Italians have Giampaolo on the bench, who had Torreira two seasons in the ‘Samp’ and he got a great performance (four goals and one assist in 73 games). Atlético is interested in obtaining a loan with an option to buy, while Arsenal prefers to dispose of him permanently and they would like the option to become an obligation. They value the player at 24 million euros, a price that the rojiblancos do not want to pay. That made the Turinese favorites to take the cat into the water.

However, today the situation has turned upside down with the statements of its sports director, Davide Vagnati, in ‘Sky Italia’ in which he stated the following when asked about the player: “Torreira? He is an important player, who could change the balance in different non-Italian teams and that is why he has very high costs. It is not a simple situation, in these conditions taking it to garnet (the colors of Torino) is really complicated”. Therefore, he seems to rule out his team in the fight to take over the Uruguayan, which would increase the options for Simeone's men to add the Uruguayan to their squad. However, a priori it would be necessary for Héctor Herrera to leave so that the operation could be carried out.