Griezmann prevented Atlético from missing his appointment with LaLiga

Atlético once again had a busy market in search of improving their squad, with more quality than quantity in their reinforcements. Simeone's priority was to maintain the backbone of the team that was proclaimed LaLiga champion and his great desire was for the return of Antoine Griezmann, something that, after practically being lost, could be carried out in the last minute of the market.

French became the fourth addition to the cursor after the signings of Rodrigo de Paul from Udinese, Lecomte on loan from Monaco and the reinforcement above Matheus Cunha from Herta Berlin. Marcos Paulo signed from Fluminense, but this course will be played on loan at the Portuguese Famalicao to gain experience. Atlético knows that the safest bet is to incorporate footballers who have already shone in the Spanish League itself, something that always lightens the process of acclimatization to the team. And with Griezmann the top scorer in his five seasons at the club, it's an even safer value after leading Simeone's team for five years in a row.

Its incorporation on the last market day prevented an unusual event from occurring, since Atlético has been reinforced every summer since Simeone's arrival with at least one footballer from the League itself. If last season had already arrived Luis Suárez from Barcelona, ​​in addition to Kondogbia from Valencia, This course is Griezmann the one that comes from a club of the own competition, although in the case of De Paul he had also played in LaLiga six years ago in Valencia.

In the first summer with Cholo on the bench, that of 2012, Cata Díaz joined from Getafe and Domingo Cisma from Racing de Santander. A year later it would be the turn of David Villa from Barcelona, ​​Leo Baptistao from Rayo, Aranzubia as former goalkeeper for Deportivo and Demichelis at the end of his contract with Malaga, although he would go to Manchester City that same market before having time to debut. In the summer of 2014 there was the great incorporation of Antoine Griezmann from Real Sociedad, as well as Siqueira from Granada, Moyá from Getafe and Jesús Gámez from Málaga. And in January it would be added Cani on loan for six months from Villarreal.

Atlético would reach the Champions League final in the 2015-16 season after having joined in the summer Vietto from Villarreal and in January to Augusto Fernández from Celta. In the following season the bet in attack was a Kevin Gameiro that he had left a great season at Sevilla. Also from the Andalusian team would join Vitolo a year later, although he could not play as a rojiblanco until January 2018 due to a FIFA sanction and had to spend his first six months on loan at Las Palmas. That summer, Atlético brought Rodrigo back to the club from Villarreal and Adán from Betis, in addition to signing Jonny from Celta, although he would end up transferred to Wolverhampton without actually wearing the rojiblanca.

The following year there was a transitional summer, with the loss of key pieces and the arrival, among others, of Marcos Llorente of Real Madrid and Mario Hermoso of Espanyol. A total of 23 incorporations from LaLiga that make the Spanish market the favorite by far for Atlético de Simeone, who has always had the Portuguese league in his bedroom, but he hasn't used it in the last two years. In total, they have been incorporated 15 players from the neighboring country, with João Félix, Felipe, Saponjic and Herrera as the last to do so (previously they were Pizzi, Insúa, Cebolla Rodríguez, Roberto, Oblak, Moreira, Jackson Martínez, Mensah, Gaitán, Diogo Jota and Gelson Martins).

Stranger is adding players from the Bundesliga, where he has gone looking for Cunha. The Brazilian has become the third addition from Germany since the summer of 2012 and the second signing after Bayern Mandzukic (the other operation was the transfer of Diego Ribas placeholder image from Wolfsburg). In the French league, there is no doubt about the current affinity with Monaco. Of five incorporations since the gala competition, Lemar, Carrasco and Lecomte have arrived from the Monegasque club and only Guilavogui (Saint-Étienne) and Dembélé (on loan from Olympique de Lyon) break the norm. Italy sits as the third favorite league with the addition of De Paul, who joins Savic, Vrsaljko, Cerci, Torres and Kalinic. Vlahovic could be the seventh, but Fiorentina refused to let the Serb out.

And if in the French league the affinity is clearly with Monaco, in England there is no doubt that Chelsea is the club with the best relationships, Saúl's destination during the last day of the market. Diego Costa, Morata and Filipe Luis they are three of the only four players incorporated from the powerful Premier League, financially far superior. The other is a Torreira who came on loan last year from Arsenal.

Atlético has come back to this market to LaLiga to improve its squad, even if it was on the horn, and also to South American football, with Marcos Paulo signing from Fluminense and following in Lodi's footsteps. From Argentina there have been a total of four incorporations (Correa, Kranevitter, Werner and Nehuén); two from Uruguay (Giménez and Velázquez) and Santos Borré from Colombia. The rest of Atlético's markets with Simeone at the controls have been Mexico (Raúl Jiménez and Ibáñez), the Netherlands (Alderweireld and Arias), Russia (Ansaldi on loan), Ukraine (Sosa on loan), Emre from Turkey, Carrasco on his return from China and Grbic from Croatia.