This Thursday will mark ten years since the arrival of Diego Pablo Simeone at Atlético de Madrid. Neither the team nor the Argentine coach arrives at such a remarkable and meritorious anniversary at their best. Distanced from the fight for the League, with an unknown defensive fragility and with three consecutive league defeats, an unprecedented milestone in the it was Simeone, the problems to be solved by the rojiblanco coach range from the collective to the individual. In this last section, the most notable case is that of the Portuguese João Félix, to whom the tests carried out by Simeone grant ownership this Wednesday in Los Cármenes.
“I hope that João is a decisive player. Regular in the game, as in many passages of these two games, “said the coach in reference to the Portuguese’s performances in the second half of the games against Real Madrid (2-0) and Sevilla (2-1), In which he entered after the break and improved the team’s performance, although he could not avoid defeats. “He is a different player than the eye when he drives and allows us to be a vertical team when he manages to turn,” added Simeone, who even asked for protection for his footballer: “They will always hit him when he controls the ball.”
The crisis of results and of game have put in solfa the last substitutions of the Portuguese attacker. In recent appearances before the press, Simeone has been questioned several times about the situation of João Félix, the most expensive investment (126 million euros, in 2019) in the club’s history.
The coach’s responses have made it clear that the Portuguese does not finish offering everything that he demands. El Cholo does not discuss the quality of the player, but his gear in his ideology does. “João has conditions that, just looking at him for a few minutes, you realize that he is a great footballer. You will have to go through these growing situations. There they are the maturation, the rebellion and the regularity that the game demands “, explained in the previous one of the party with Seville. Simeone does not feel that he is the only one who does not finish filling the performance of João Félix. “He is a very good footballer, the same thing happens with Portugal, where many times he does not start, but he does finish the games. You have to improve and prove your worth ”, insisted Cholo.
Between injuries, a complex adaptation to the group and passing the one baptized as “Simeone’s mili”, in the two and a half years of rojiblanco João Félix has not finished exploding at Atlético. It has also been the most affected by the arrival of Griezmann, now injured. Coach, player and club accept that it is a complicated matter. The player’s agent, Jorge Mendes, has already made several attempts to find a way out that the entity, for now, is not willing to consent to.
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