Chapter 107 Atletico Madrid's "Big Purchase"

When the team arrived in the United States, the Atletico Madrid internationals who participated in the World Cup also came to the United States one after another, and Simeone's team gradually became complete.

Diego Costa, Thibaut Courtois, Felipe were not among the group that returned, and the players knew that they probably wouldn't be back at Atletico Madrid.

Sure enough, Chelsea officials quickly announced that Chelsea spent 48 million euros to buy Diego Costa, 30 million euros to buy Felipe, and announced the recall of Courtois.

Last season's Champions League champions lost three absolute main players at once, which really gave Simeone quite a headache.

Compared to these three players, the rest of Atletico Madrid's loss is not worth mentioning, with last season's regular substitute moving to Portuguese side Porto for 15 million euros. Also departing are young goalkeeper Roberto who moved to Olympiacos for six million euros, midfielder Gilavogi Joshua on loan to Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, and goalkeeper Asenjo to Villarreal for five million euros.

With so many players lost all at once, especially last season's three main players, Simeone will have to bring in a number of players from the transfer market to strengthen the team.

Courtois's departure has left Atletico Madrid having to find a replacement in the goalkeeper position, with Atletico Madrid bringing in Miguel from Getafe for three million euros. Moya. Miguel Moya is a very strong goalkeeper, born in 1984, with excellent goal-line skills, and was a member of Spain's U-Series youth team, participating in the European Youth Championship and the World Youth Championship. If it weren't for the two super-god goalkeepers of the same period, Casillas and Valdés, maybe Moya might not be impossible to see on the goal line of the Spanish national team............

Of course, the goalkeeper position can be said to be the most special position of a team, and the introduction of a Moya alone can not reassure Simeone, Atletico Madrid spent 16 million euros to bring in young goalkeeper Jan from Benfica born in 1993. Oblak. It's not for nothing that the 21-year-old goalkeeper Oblak can reach a value of 16 million, and the 1.86-meter-tall Oblak joined Benfica from Slovenian Ljubljana in 2010 and has been outstanding on loan spells at Leiria and Rio Aver. In 2012, he made his Slovenian national team debut at the age of 19. After returning to Benfica in the 2013-2014 season, Oblak established himself in the regular role of the team amid an injury to veteran goalkeeper Artur, making 25 appearances for the team in all competitions, including the Europa League final defeat to Sevilla. After helping the team win the domestic "treble", Oblak won the honor of the best goalkeeper in the Portuguese Super League for his outstanding performance. Oblak will sign a six-year contract with Atletico Madrid!

The forward position is also a key area for Simeone, with the loss of Diego Costa and Villa leaving Atletico Madrid with enough depth in the forward position. Although Mandzukic was signed from Bayern Munich, Simeone did not stop there, and Atletico Madrid spent 30 million euros to bring in French striker Antoine Griezmann from Real Sociedad! The price of 30 million is the second highest price on the transfer list in Atletico Madrid's history, second only to Falcao who was introduced by Atletico Madrid for a transfer fee of 40 million! In fact, Griezmann began to represent Real Sociedad in La B as early as 2009, in 2010, Real Sociedad was promoted to La Liga, Griezmann also gradually occupied the main position in the team through his performance, in the 12-13 season, Griezmann began to rise rapidly, he scored ten goals in 34 appearances that season, and became the fourth youngest player in La Liga history to achieve 100 games that season! Then in the 13-14 season, he scored 16 goals in 35 appearances and his performance steadily improved. With his impressive performances in La Liga, the 23-year-old was selected for the French national team and participated in the World Cup in Brazil. At the World Cup, he played in five matches for France, starting three of them. Although he didn't score, he deserved praise for his performance.

The arrival of the young France international, who can play as a left winger or as a second striker, has left Atletico Madrid with three strikers of equal quality in different styles up front, which has brought more variation to Simeone's line-up and guaranteed Atletico Madrid in terms of bench depth. The gap between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid Barcelona is often not obvious in the main lineup, but when the camera sweeps to the benches of both sides, the distance between the two sides can be clearly felt.

The introduction of two goalkeepers, two strong strikers, Felipe's departure is not a big problem, Atletico Madrid's Ansaldi in the left wing-back is enough to replace the gap after Felipe's departure, Atletico Madrid basically filled the vacancy of the three main departures, but Atletico Madrid did not stop there in the transfer market, Simeone hopes to bring in more players to enrich the team's squad. It will not work to rely on a set of lineups to play the world, and the team will fight in the third line in the new season, if there is not enough bench thickness, it will be a collapse of the third line.

Atletico Madrid now has Li Qingshan, Griezmann, Mandzukic three can play the main striker, but only three strikers are not too much reserves, as long as one of these three is injured, Atletico Madrid does not even have a replacement for a striker, so it is very necessary to introduce a fourth striker. In this case, the Mexican international, Raul Gimenez, striker of América de Mexico, born in 1991, came into Simeone's sights, and in the end Atletico Madrid managed to bring in the player from América de Mexico for one and a half million euros.

Atletico Madrid then continued to make moves, buying left wing-back Shekéla from Granada for 10 million euros, right wing-back Gámez from Malaga for 2.5 million euros, and midfielder Varaquez from Uruguayan side Danubio for 1.1 million euros.

Atletico Madrid brought in nine players at once this summer, including 30 million euros to buy a big signing like Griezmann, which made fans see the team's ambitions.

Atletico Madrid has spent nearly 100 million euros on the transfer market this season, which makes Atletico Madrid fans who are used to living a poor life quite uncomfortable. But this is not a big financial pressure for Atletico Madrid, Felipe and Costa's departure has brought 78 million transfer income to the team, and Atletico Madrid, who won the Champions League last season, has more than 40 million euros in bonuses and broadcast points in the Champions League alone, which are all unplanned income for Atletico Madrid, so it is not much pressure for Atletico to spend 100 million.

In fact, Simeone also plans to wait and see if there are any players worth shooting for a while to continue to strengthen the facelift.

Fans' worries about the loss of three absolute main players have also been dispelled by a wave of buying by Atletico Madrid.