Although the two signings of the Atletico Madrid for the next season, Axel Witsel and Samuel Lino focused attention on the first training session of the preseason of the rojiblanco team, the eyes also pointed in a special way to two other colchoneros soccer players: Saul Niguez and Alvaro Morata. He was seen relaxed, relaxed, smiling. As if time had not passed.
The two return to the mattress discipline after their respective assignments, the midfielder of one year in the Chelsea and the forward of two in the Juventus. And although they are counted on for the coming course, it is not yet entirely clear that they will remain in the squad. Because his high chips and the fact that Simeone do not consider them essential, place them on the market and candidates to leave if a good offer arrives at the Metropolitano offices, something that has not yet happened.
In Morata’s case, Juventus still loves the man from Madrid, but he did not make effective the purchase option he had for him, set at 35 million euros. The Italians want to reduce that amount, or even request a new transfer, something that Atlético does not contemplate at the moment. The player has been clear about it for a long time: in his mind he is staying in the mattress team and, in case of leaving, it only contemplates the Juve option.
Atlético Madrid striker Álvaro Morata (c) and midfielder Marcos Llorente (l), during training this Sunday at the Ciudad Deportiva in Majadahonda.
Chelsea also did not activate their right for saul, of another 35 ‘kilos’. That is to say, that if the rojiblancos leaders had 70 million euros that finally have not entered and that have disrupted the accounts of the entity.
On equal terms with the rest
At the moment, Saúl and Morata are two more players under Simeone, who will have them from the start. They want to earn a job at Atlético, and that happens by working hard. The two assume the enormous competition that there is, but they have already made it clear in the interviews carried out with the club (the only two who return after assignments that have done them, something also significant) that they return with the renewed illusion of being important in the team red and white
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