Categories: Football

Saponjic finds a way out of a ‘three-year tunnel’

One of the strangest cases of recent times in the Atletico Madrid It is on the verge of being resolved definitively. For the good of the player, we mean. We are obviously talking about Ivan Saponjic, mattress player who since his signing for the mattress club has been a ‘ghost’ in the day-to-day life of the rojiblanco team. Not in training, which he has fulfilled like anyone else, with the same professionalism, but in terms of the playing opportunities he has had.

According to the journalist of the AS Journal Jorge Garcia, Ivan Saponjic is close to leaving Athletic in this winter market. The Serbian striker, 24, has not had any minutes this season, a lack of confidence on the part of Simeone in it that comes from previous years. The cholos He has not had the Balkan among his plans.

Now, with his contract in the final stretch, it expires in the summer of 2022, the player is already seeing the light in this three-year tunnel in which he has participated in nine games and five of them were with the shirt of the Cádiz, where he played on loan for half a season last year (he scored a goal).

According to information from George Garcia, his destiny will be Slovan de Bratislava, current leader of the Slovak league, who has been talking to the club for some time to sign him. The Athletic He has given you permission to figure out your future. He arrived at the rojiblanco club in the summer of 2019 from the subsidiary of Benfica for half a million euros. At Athletic He has never had minutes or opportunities from Simeone despite being world champion under-21 with Serbia.