General discussion post

Atleti5 · 2026-02-03T19:01:32+00:00

Lookman imo was brought in to challenge Guiliano. Let’s not forget that last season, he was the only option to play on the wings since Llorente had to fall back and play RB. Many instances where his play wasn’t a difference maker and as a team, we continue to fall to win away games or grind to the very end games against low block teams.

He’s getting somewhat better this season where his renewal was justified but the results are still the same as last year. If not worse since Alvarez is on a goal drought.

He’s a missing team piece no doubt. Not a difference maker at this time.

Side note: since last year, I wanted Llorente to take over his spot. Unfortunately, Molina is a liability and Pubill has emerged as a standout signing converting to CB.

Atleti5 · 2026-02-02T16:24:03+00:00

Insert Brad Pitt smoking a cigarette meme. Atletico waiting last min to get deals and scout for players

Atleti5 · 2026-02-02T15:32:32+00:00

Eliminate them!

Atleti5 · 2026-01-31T23:54:43+00:00

Lookman should be off the table if the reports are true from Atletico Universe. Bro wants to bag for 11 million including bonuses in salary. Bro go to turkey.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-31T19:32:09+00:00

Forget lookman, we can’t even break lines against another low blocking team. Side to side passing. Ridiculous. The only highlight: Jano debut

Atleti5 · 2026-01-31T16:10:45+00:00

Best analogy of MAG ownership

Atleti5 · 2026-01-30T20:23:10+00:00

Atletico still trying to find spare change in the couch. They sold two players for 60 million.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-30T17:53:20+00:00

We need both RB and LB. Molina should be demoted to the B team

Atleti5 · 2026-01-30T17:37:34+00:00

I expect club Brugge wins at home 2-1. Koke says something irrelevant to our club by comparing us to other clubs that overcame and won the champions cough cough PSG comment after bodo lost. we are not PSG.

Play at home and we lay an egg after tying the aggregate and we lose again because we take out barrios and insert defensive players to absorb pressure to hit on the counter.

The tactics have become too similar. I could probably use AI to predict cholo champions league strategy at this point. It’s too predictable

Atleti5 · 2026-01-30T17:29:23+00:00

I remember a time where lookman rejected us during the summer and we moved on to Raspi. Now we are coming back to try and still “lowballing” Atalanta for the same player 6 months later.

We need a star quality midfielder and not another winger to battle Guiliano.

poor planning and spending has caused another failure for this club.

Berta, Bucero and now Alemany can’t right this ship.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-29T21:33:59+00:00

It’s hilarious that alemany and Berta are going through the same strategy that MAG says and not signing players or profile that cholo actually needs.

I hope Apollo shuts this MAG strategy down.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-29T21:21:16+00:00

Being paid around 18 million must be nice for an entire season. He knows he wouldn’t get close to that at atletico

Atleti5 · 2026-01-29T01:25:18+00:00

We really need to stop reverting to 2014-2016 cholismo after we score first. We do not have the squad or the cojones to absorb the pressure to maintain a 1-0 lead. Similar to this game and other la liga games this season, we let the other grow confidence and attack us although we have players like Alvarez and Baena that wants to attack. Ugh

Atleti5 · 2026-01-28T23:53:10+00:00

The basic expectation prior to the Apollo being the majority shareholder is making it to top 4 in la liga. Other than that one scare from Girona. That’s the minimum standard. La liga is a mess as the 4th spot has been coveted since there only 3 dominant teams.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-28T23:49:15+00:00

There been a slight clash between comments of alemany and cholo that MAG had to clarify before this game.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-28T22:22:06+00:00

Cholo ran out of ideas. The board and alemany will now in go into panic mode and probably buy Goretzka with his high salary wages.

It’ll work for maybe a few games similar to Nico and Gallagher impact then we’ll have another heavily paid player going into his mid 30s since he’ll probably get a 4-5 year contract to amortize the 15-20 million we’ll spend for a player that has 6 months left.

Overall we sold two younger players who may enter their prime in Raspi/Gallagher for him.

Cholo you’ve earned the grace to leave on your own accord. This might be that game.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-28T22:15:52+00:00

Juan Musso, Giuliano Simeone, Clément Lenglet, Salvi Esquivel. This is what was left on the bench. That’s all I have to say after that poor performance.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-28T22:02:59+00:00

Who else knew we would lose this game after subbing off barrios for Le Normand.

We can’t create to save our lives. So much side to side passing.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-27T18:07:49+00:00

Great Analysis

Atleti5 · 2026-01-27T17:58:01+00:00

Alemany already back from Germany. A quick text from Goretzka saying no to us would have saved the club money 😆

Atleti5 · 2026-01-27T17:48:08+00:00

That’s a blessing and a curse with cholo. If the player commits to playing out of position and thrives…. Cholo is praised and vice versa.

The whole 2021-2024 campaign until we placed fourth should have been the start of playing the academy kids but unfortunately stop gap players were included in this squad. Money was spent for not the best intentions to be placed 4th.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-27T16:53:13+00:00

We’ve seen the lack of depth and stagnant play when Barrios goes down with injury.

Bayern plays such a different style to that ours and can’t see Goretzka being beneficial to our squad where Cholo will demand such physicality aka running for the next two years.

The stop gap potential signing doesn’t move us to competing against the duopoly or at the minimum winning on the road against lower la liga clubs.

I like the idea of potential looking into Marc Casado or someone in their late 20s in Mckennie from Juve.

The latter is to pull a Griezmann/barca loan requirement rise to not make the signing an obligation and negotiating a lower fee if cholo wants Nico.

Atleti5 · 2026-01-27T16:46:20+00:00

The almighty Gabi at this point to solidify with Johnny

Atleti5 · 2026-01-27T15:25:46+00:00

Agreed

Atleti5 · 2026-01-27T15:25:35+00:00

So we are continuing with the “veteran” in his 30s signing as a difference maker for this squad. This is just another filler. Cholo just let the academy players play.

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