Spain and Portugal, the Atlético de Simeone market

Atlético faces a summer with few economic resources to incorporate players. The technical direction shuffles multiple options in the center of the field and in attack, but despite the global deployment of scouts, With the arrival of Simeone, transfer planning has focused on the Iberian Peninsula. Since Cholo took over the team in December 2011 there have been 66 signings in the first team, though ten of them, eleven counting the newcomer Ivo Grbic, they have not made their debut.

Those 66 additions have occurred since 17 different countries, but the predominance is clear: 20 signings from LaLiga and 15 from the Portuguese competition, where the Jorge Mendes factor has become a determining factor to be able to deal with several of those arrivals. The most popular is that of João Félix from Benfica in exchange for 127.2 million. But in addition to the '7', Pizzi (€ 13.5M), Insúa (3.5), Cebolla Rodríguez (0), Roberto (6), Oblak (16), Moreira (0.3), Jackson Martínez (37) , Mensah (6), Gaitán (25), Diogo Jota (7), Gelson Martins (22.5), Felipe (20), Saponjic (0.5) and Héctor Herrera (0) came from Portugal with a disbursement of 284.5 million.

In the league, Vitolo has been the most buoyant incorporation, for the amount of his clause of 36 million from Sevilla. In addition to the canary, Cata Díaz (€ 1M), Cisma (0), Baptistao (7), Villa (2.1), Demichelis (0), Aranzubía (0), Griezmann (30), Siqueira (10), Moyá (3), Gámez (2.5), Cani (loan), Vietto (twenty), Augusto (4), Gameiro (30), Rodrigo (25), Jonny (7), Adán (1), Hermoso (25) and Marcos Llorente (35) complete the list, but the total expenditure is lower: 238.5 million. It must be clarified that in Griezmann's case, with his sale to Barcelona, ​​he had to be paid 20% of the transfer to Real Sociedad, 24 million more but linked to the 120 million entered, it was not part of his transfer in the summer of 2014.

England unaffordable

Spain and Portugal are characterized by being more lax markets, more prone to the payment of transfers in installments (as in South America, from which eight signings have come), lengthy negotiations and salaries of their less inflated players beyond Madrid and Barcelona. However, the economic power of other leagues such as Premier or the Bundesliga have left Atlético practically without options to incorporate players. From England they have only returned Filipe (€ 16M) and Diego Costa (60) from Chelsea, Morata (56) also like blue and Trippier (22) from Tottenham, in all cases the determination of the player being fundamental for only wanting to join the rojiblanco club. An expense of 154 million in only four footballers, which shows the outlay involved in buying from the Premier. Harder transfers for the rojiblanco pocket, for the forms of payment and also for the salary scale.

Starting from Germany, only the loan of Diego and the signing of Mandzukic (€ 22M) from Bayern. In the French league they have been Lemar (70), Carrasco (17.2) and Guilavogui (10) the chosen ones. They complete the list five players from Italy: Cerci (€ 15m), Torres (0), Savic (25), Vrsaljko (16) and Kalinic (14.5); four from Argentina: Correa (7.5), Kranevitter (8), Werner (0.8) and Nehuén (2.5); two from Uruguay: Giménez (0.9) and Velázquez (1.1); two from Mexico: Raúl Jiménez (10.5) and Ibáñez (0); two from Holland: Alderweireld (7) and Arias (11); Lodi (25) from Brazil; I erased (2.7) from Colombia; Ansaldi (given) From Russia; bland (given) from Ukraine; Emre (6) from Turkey; Carrasco (given) from China and Grbic (about 6) from Croatia.

Investments without insurance premium

Nine of the ten most expensive signings in Atlético's history have occurred in the last six years. Only Falcao (45 million) is prior to the arrival of Simeone. But among the ten most expensive Cholo, several have not given the expected performance. With João Félix hopes are maintained, but with Lemar they have been lost after a second year at the club in which he has failed to contribute a goal or assist. Griezmann has been the player with the greatest evolution with the coach, arrived from Real Sociedad for 30 million as a promising winger to become a second top-level striker, to multiply the amount of his sale by four. Oblak, joined the same summer as Griezmann for 16 million from Benfica, At that time he became the most expensive goalkeeper in LaLiga and the goal for which Atlético has invested the most, but he has shown that he is worth every coin paid.