Lucas Torreira (24 years old) is the last great goal that Atlético has left before the market closes on the 5th. The Uruguayan midfielder from Arsenal It is an express request from Simeone to reinforce the rojiblanco midfield facing this season in which they want to aspire to everything. The player wants to get out of the 'gunners' and his club is about to get rid of him, but, a priori, Atlético is only interested in obtaining his loan with a purchase option. However, Londoners would want him to leave the team permanently, since it does not enter into the plans of his technician, Arteta.
A tough competitor came out for the rojiblancos to take over the services of Torreira, Torino. The Italians had the trump card in their favor of have Giampaolo on the bench, the coach who directed the Uruguayan at Sampdoria before he went to the Premier. However, the sports director of the Turinese, Davide vagnati, stated last week in ‘Sky Italia’ that “Torreira 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 discarded his team to fight to get the Uruguayan.
That left Atlético free to negotiate with Arsenal and the player and it seems that they have already begun to carry out the second part of the plan. And it is that, as reported ‘Sky Italia’, Torreira's agent, Pablo Bentancur, arrived in Madrid today to meet with the mattress sports director, Andrea Berta, in order to bring positions closer to a possible agreement to join Simeone's orders. In principle, Bentancur will be in the capital until Friday waiting for events.
It all depends, of course, on what both clubs reach an agreement on how the operation would be carried out. The assignment formula seems the most probable, although the key would be in If the hypothetical subsequent purchase of the player would be voluntary, as the people of Madrid want, or mandatory, as the 'gunners' wish, who want to enter some 24 million for the charrúa pass. In addition, another fundamental actor in this possible Torreira-Atlético union is Herrera, since the rojiblancos They need the Mexican to leave to make room for the Uruguayan in the squad.