MADRID, 22 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Former Atlético de Madrid player Paulo Futre assured that if the rojiblanco team starts the new League well, whose draw was held this Thursday with him as one of the innocent hands, they can win and dream high, especially if they continue the “winning dynamic” of the second round of the last campaign.
“I hope that Atlético have a great season, that they start as they ended last year with the winning dynamics. They failed at the start, until the World Cup they were regular. Then they had an excellent second round. But if we started well, why not win and dream? Let’s dream. You have to win all the games until Real Madrid’s, in September,” he asked in statements to the media after the draw.
Futre has faith that the club will have a good summer market and can opt to win all competitions. He even dreams of the ‘Champions’. “What I know is that the Atleti players, the best, only come out because of the clause. I have a lot of faith in Cholo and in the sports management, we are going to sign well and we are going to be in the fight for all competitions,” he said. .
Of course, he can also lose players like his compatriot Joao Félix, on loan to Chelsea in this final stretch of the season. “Well, it’s very difficult to answer if Joao Félix is going to stay or not. I love him and I love Cholo and let it be what God wants. But I also love how he plays. It’s clear, it’s João Félix, he’s a different player When it is well, it can win a party alone”, signalled.
“I always thought that the relationship between Cholo and Joao was that of father and son. Let’s see if, removing the last one, that the punishment has taken a long time, how many fights did the two have? Many, and until the last one they solved the issue” , he qualified, thinking positively.
Futre acknowledged that, in this transfer market, they will not be able to compete economically with Barça and Madrid. “This is historic, we can’t, but with the money we can have, I think that between Cholo and the sports director we can make a great team. We’re going to sign well, sure, and we’re going to fight hard, right? Until the end,” he appealed.
And it is that he trusts a lot in Diego Pablo Simeone. “Cholo would be our Alex Ferguson, who spent 27 years at Manchester United. Look how many years Cholo has to stay. We are a different team and club, because when the team loses, many ‘colchoneros’ criticize, even me, the Cholo. But two days later, nobody criticizes him. Why? Because Cholo is a myth. Cholo will stay until he wants to,” he said.
“We have to be eternally grateful to Cholo, all the ‘colchoneros’. Because no one can forget that when he arrived at Atleti we were one of the last, I think, we were already having nightmares from hell in the Second Division. He changed everything, not only as a coach, He is also a myth as a player”, he stressed.