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We are only in October but Joao Félix’s future is already taking center stage. The Portuguese winger, who scored this Monday with his national team, will once again be a member of Atlético de Madrid for all purposes starting next July 1.
The desire of the player and Barça is to continue hand in hand, but the Blaugranas cannot afford a transfer of 80 million today. Although it is difficult to imagine him as a red and white player again, in the ‘colchonera’ entity they still have a hidden card .
It is public and notorious that the great impediment for Joao Félix to return to Atlético de Madrid is ‘Cholo’ Simeone . Not only because of his non-offensive style – although this season he is being somewhat more daring – but because of the personal differences between the Argentine and the Portuguese. However, and as SPORT has learned, the ‘colchonero’ coach has begun to move towards a possible move to Saudi Arabia.
In the short term, ‘Cholo”s intention continues to be to renew with Atlético . For one or two more seasons, but always reserving the possibility of going to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2025. Everything indicates that the coach will finish this campaign and complete the next one. But from there he plans to end a stage that began in December 2011.
The coach’s entourage has already maintained some contacts to find out what the ‘rules of the game’ would be for a possible departure to Saudi Arabia in 2025 – hardly before. Today, nothing has advanced, but it is significant that the Argentine sees other options on the horizon.
In the hypothetical case that Simeone left the Atlético bench in 2025, the Madrid entity would have more arguments to try to dream of seeing Joao Félix succeed as a ‘colchonero’. Simeone was always open to the winger leaving, but Miguel Ángel Gil Marín highly values the talent of the former Benfica player , whose situation he tried to redirect without success.
The most feasible idea for Barça is to carry out a new loan . Who knows if, next summer, Atlético can reserve the last word on Félix for July 2025, thinking that perhaps then Simeone will have made way for a new coach who does have a ‘feeling’ with the Portuguese.
Source: Sport
