Simeone: "I'm where I want and I like to be"

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"Osasuna is a team that plays very well, that has a lot of dynamics, that attacks with great depth and arrives with a lot of people inside the area and that is going through a good sporting moment", declared the coach of Atlético de Madrid, Diego. Simeone.

“The players are looking forward to having a new opportunity tomorrow and focusing on the match”, he pointed out regarding the match that will be played this Saturday at El Sadar.

During the most visible crisis since he was at Atlético de Madrid, Cholo had lunch this Friday with Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, CEO, and Andrea Berta, sports director, and remarked that he is "at a great club", in which he "likes" and wants to be and in which he looks "to the future trying to solve the situations that happen in the present" in the rojiblanco team.

In the telematic press conference, before training at the Ciudad Deportiva de Majadahonda, without anyone asking him about it (it was a question about Antoine Griezmann, who returns to the team a month and a half later), the Argentine coach revealed the match with the directors, who circumscribed it to the usual, although there are certain differences with normality: the moment of the team and that it has been revealed to the media.

Just at a time when his future is in the air more than ever and just when the team has the worst symptoms in the entire Simeone era.

“We get together for no more than 20 days, a maximum of one month, once or twice we meet and talk about all the good, bad, difficult, spectacular situations that happen to us during the season.

It is clear that it is a moment where the club mainly becomes stronger as a result of what we are going through, that it is a bad moment and that we have to carry it forward by being together”, proclaimed the coach.

Does Simeone need public support from the board?

“I have the motivation to live daily.

I have the opportunity and possibility of being in a great club, where I like to be and want to be, where I look to the future trying to solve the situations that happen in the present.

From there, the talk I told you today.

It is not often necessary to speak outwards, but to speak inwards and be clear about where we are going”,

He also spoke of the support of his players: "I have extremely recent events beyond the moment we are all going through, because here there is not one circumstance that has made us be at this moment, but several, and I absolutely believe in the footballers that I have, I am convinced that there is a squad, that we need to work well, return to what we feel on the field and they are going to do it.

I'm sure they will."

“I just came from having lunch with Miguel Ángel and Andrea.

After this tough, difficult defeat (against Levante), looking to the future by looking at the present and looking to the future by looking at the present, we find ourselves with a 14-game League from now on, in which there will surely be seven teams that can participate in these places and absolutely centralize ourselves being all together, footballers,

And there he referred to the 2019-20 season, when, with eleven games to go, Atlético did not depend on itself to reach the Champions League places: “We were one point higher than now.

And we were sixth and we finished third.

We will have to make a great effort on the part of everyone, having a clear objective and focusing on the future looking at the present, which is what counts”.

Right after, Simeone was asked if he has a bad relationship with Andrea Berta.

"I understand that you possibly had the question asked, but possibly you did not listen to my answer," said the Argentine coach, whose team faces Osasuna this Saturday after the defeat against Levante, the sixth in the last ten days of Atlético.

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