Vietto, an unexpected source of income for Atlético

Luciano Vietto (26 years old) passed without pain or glory for Atlético. The Argentinian came to the club in the summer of 2015 from Villarreal in exchange for 20 million euros, the amount of your termination clause. He came with the vitola of having been one of the revelation forwards of LaLiga in his debut in the competition after having scored 20 goals in 48 games for the Castellón. However, his landing in the rojiblancas ranks did not meet expectations. His first course under Simeone ended with three goals and five assists in 28 games across all competitions.

That caused the next course He will leave on loan to Sevilla in order to recover the level he showed at Villarreal. With the Nervionenses played 31 games and achieved 10 goals and six goal passes, which led Atlético to give him a second chance at the start of the 2017-18 campaign. In the first half of the season, Vietto participated in 10 duels with the colchoneros between all competitions and did not score any goals., so in January he went on loan again, this time to Valencia. With the ‘che’ team, he jumped onto the field of play 19 times with a balance of five goals and one assist.

At the end of the course, he returned to Atlético, which sent him to the Premier, specifically to Fulham, his third assignment in three years. With londoners He played 22 games, scoring one goal and giving four goal passes. Given that Vietto's future at Atlético was very complicated, the rojiblancos They decided to include him in the negotiation with Sporting Lisbon for the signing of Gelson Martins and sold 50% of his pass to the Portuguese for 7.5 million euros. In summary, the Argentine's stay in the mattress team translates into three goals and five assists in 1975 'spread over 38 games.

However, Atlético can still benefit financially from Vietto thanks to the 50% of its rights that it maintains. And it is that, as reported by the Argentine television channel 'TyC Sports', Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia is interested in hiring you and offers seven million euros, although Sporting asks for 11 to sit down to negotiate the departure of the forward. Therefore, if the operation is finally carried out for the amount requested by the Portuguese, the rojiblancos would correspond half of that amount, that is, 5.5 million euros, which would go directly to their coffers to be able to allocate them to future signings.