The situation
The World Cup break has arrived. At last for Atlético . The first part of the season has left him for the first time in his eleven years with Cholo outside of Europe , of any competition called Champions, the dream, or Europa League, the possibility of a title like in 2018, and that begins to spread in LaLiga: the break puts him out of the top four in the table, a place he held until the last day when he chained his third game without a victory in the competition (five in total). After the necessary rest, to turn off the head, the noises, reduce the anxiety that has caused so many bad results and defeats leading to wars wherever you look:fans with fans, fans with the team, Simeone with João Félix, will sit down in front of the paper and do the math . And they come with subtractions. The European elimination has its penance. Atlético accounted for 12 million in their income to reach the second round, and that money will no longer be . A hole that the club can cover with sales. Last season the board already warned when in February the classification among the top four looked rough: “If you didn’t enter the Champions League, a star would be sold.” And it went in. But it didn’t last very long. The situation is practically the same. You have to sell. But who? The World Cup will be a showcase for footballers like De Paul who hasn’t finished arriving at Atleti two years later , certainly not the De Paul with Argentina or the one who was in Udine, not of course. João Félix’s name has been there for weeks, a consequence of that battle with Cholo full of gestures, those of the footballer after warming up on the wing during the second half to not enter the match, a fixed ownership at the beginning of the season and vanished after the defeat in Germany against Leverkusen, the second day of the group stage of this Champions League, and recent goals, such as those scored by the Portuguese in four goals in the last five games (against Cádiz, 2, Porto, Espanyol, 1, Mallorca and Almazán with only one victory, in the Cup against the last rival, first round).
The dilemma Cunha
Although the departure of the Portuguese in the form of a sale seems difficult given the investment, the situation with Cholo seems difficult to redirect just before this break if they both continue to live under the roof of the same locker room, what seems to be left over for Atlético is a striker. Five are a crowd since August. Another candidate is Cunha (510 ‘).