• Mercado.The transfers of the last day

Last Saturday.

Wanda Metropolitano press room.

Explained the sad draw against Villarreal, someone asks

Simeone

about the transfer market.

Read: “Busy and worried.

Hopefully there will be no bad surprise, which can always happen because it is football and there are options.

Well, the surprise, for bad, for very bad in fact, was consummated this Monday.

Although, well thought out, it was not such a surprise.

That Arsenal wanted

Thomas

was known.

That Thomas wanted to charge more was known.

That the Thomas clause (50 million) was very accessible was known.

Everything was known except that the flight occurred in the absence of just over three hours before the market closed.

Because yes, it was late in the afternoon when LaLiga confirmed to Atlético what they had intuited from noon: that the team trained by

Mikel Arteta

was going to pay the player's clause and that the player -concentrated with Ghana and putting inconsequential tweets at those same hours on the new jersey of his team - he left without time for his club to look for a replacement.

Actually, he does have options to make up for the withdrawal, but with restrictions: he has 30 days to sign, but he must be someone free or who plays in LaLiga.

In some media there was talk of

Campaña

, the Levante player, but the club denied it.

Thus ends, in a bad way, the story of a youth squad (he arrived at the subsidiary at the age of 19), whom Simeone has been molding since 2015 until he has become a top-level midfielder.

In fact, the Argentine has not been a bit amused by this exit, since he is left without the little offensive talent he has in his midfield.

It is, this farewell without remorse, the consequence that the sporting progression accumulated by the Ghanaian was never accompanied by economic progression.

Being one of the lowest paid of the squad, Thomas has been seeing his substitutes charge more than him for a couple of years, and the renewal offers that the club has made him in the last year have not filled his eye (or his pocket ).

Lucas Torreira arrives on loan

«From juvenile with us and not a call.

Not from his agents.

Not from Arsenal when we have been negotiating other operations for more than 10 days.

Unfortunately, ”they explained late at night from the offices, with the lights still on, of the Wanda.

Those "other operations" are called

Lucas Torreira

, and a pessimistic view, or a realistic one, who knows, of the situation, says that Torreira, a discarded Arsenal, will be the replacement for Thomas, an Atlético owner who has been joined by Arsenal. carried by the bravas, which in this football are just as legal as the non-bravas.

The situation for the rojiblanco team is therefore complex.

The only minimally creative helm that Simeone had in his squad leaves, the only man in the center of the field who, risking perhaps too much at times, was capable of filtering balls, breaking lines and associating with the people above, especially with

Joao Félix

.

The workforce, therefore, finds a loss there, since Torreira is a profile more similar to

Herrera

, who finally stays.

"Our idea was Torreira for Herrera, but now it is for Thomas", said the same rojiblancas sources with great resignation.

Among other things, because LaLiga only allows Atlético to use 25% of the income to buy that free player or to play in Spain during the next month.

In other words, the maximum Atlético could pay for Thomas' replacement would be 12.5 million.

And for that money it does not seem that there is any name with enough guarantees to supply the fled midfielder.

That inability to spend more is a consequence of Atlético's tight economy, with a bulky wage bill and always on the cutting edge to meet the financial requirements set by Javier Tebas.

The illusion generated by Luis Suárez was swept away by Thomas Partey on Monday.

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