The situation
After the confirmed return of Lecomte to Monaco, the position of substitute goalkeeper at Atletico remains in the air for another year. The Frenchman returns to his home club after a completely blank season with Atleti. Simeone has not trusted him and the Parisian goalkeeper leaves the club without even making his debut in an official match. The previous year Grbic was in charge of supplying Oblak and his background was not very different. A Cup match against Cardassar ended up being his only participation with the team throughout the year, so it was not surprising that the following year he went out in search of minutes. However, the adventure in Lille de Grbic has not been as expected . In the club they consider it necessary for him to gain experience and everything indicates that he will pack his bags again. Espanyol is the best positioned team to take over his services on loan, although they also have offers from abroad. Be that as it may, Atleti is obliged to test the market. Christian Gómez, Atletico’s third goalkeeper in 21-22, ended his contract this June and is leaving the club, so if the Croatian ends up leaving, the most logical thing would be to look for a profile like Lecomte, a veteran but contrasted player Make your role clear from the start. With him, the sports management repeated the strategy previously followed with Adan (who signed after five seasons as a starter at Betis), although the Madrid player lasted two seasons.
The details
Since Moya left the club in 2018, there has not been a replacement for Oblak who has chained more than two courses. The one from Binissalem (Mallorca) completed four exercises in the rojiblanco entity (from 14-15 to 17-18) after having started his rojiblanco career as a starter. He was the only one capable of relegating Oblak to the bench for a while. He did it, exactly, in the first 7 months of both as mattress makers. On March 17, 2015, an injury to the former Getafe player against Leverkusen placed the Slovenian in an eleven from which he has never left. Today, with three days left to start a new campaign, Jan still does not know who will be his partner under the sticks.