Simeone calls De Paul

When Atlético got the opportunity to sign Luis Suárez last season, Simeone picked up the phone and called. When in his day the signing of Vitolo was complicated with Sevilla, Simeone picked up the phone and called. When Atlético needs it, The Argentine coach gets involved, makes that call that he can finish pushing. Now also, with Rodrigo de Paul. The Italian press reveals it. The Il Messaggero Veneto, a Udine header, had in its pages that Cholo has raised the phone again to call one of the great signings that Atlético is looking for this summer: Rodrigo de Paul (Sarandí, Argentina, 27 years old).

“I have been very clear with whom it should be,” he wielded in The Guardian two days ago the footballer himself, referring to his future. Atlético will present a new offer to Udinese, the Argentine midfielder's club, in the coming days since the Italian club, for now, has rejected all the rojiblancas proposals.. 20 million and players (in this case Nehuén Pérez) was the first proposal, which ran into the 'no'. Udinese does not fall below 40. Its price on the specialized page Transfermarkt It is 38 million (the highest market value in his career).

The Calhanoglu option

In the last hours it has been leaked that the rojiblanco plan B would be Calhanoglu, interesting economically (it would arrive free) but always a plan B. The priority is De Paul. It is one of the signings that Simeone wants to prop up his team and champion. A medium with hierarchy and muscle in the style of Gabi in his day. The footballer, who scored nine goals and 10 assists this season in Udine, has more suitors, Milan, for example. But his will is red and white. And that can push. Like the call of the Cholo.