Atletico Madrid have managed to shift another salary off their books, but will compromise their depth in doing so.
Right-back was a problem position for Los Colchoneros last season but with Daniel Wass fully recovered from his injury and the arrival of Nahuel Molina from Udinese, Diego Simeone clearly feels sufficiently covered at the position.
Madrid-based journalist Ruben Uria revealed on Wednesday that Atleti had come to an agreement with Santiago Arias to terminate his contract, which had a year remaining on it. Marca also backed up that report.
Imagino que algunos ya lo sabrían, pero me acabo de enterar ahora: el colombiano Santiago Arias ya no pertenece al Atlético de Madrid. Se rescindió su contrato hace unos días y a partir de ahora, el defensa cafetero tiene condición de agente libre.
— Rubén Uría (@rubenuria) August 10, 2022
The Colombian’s four years at the club were blighted by injury and inconsistency. In total he only made 51 appearances under Simeone, also spending two seasons on loan at Bayer Leverkusen and Granada respectively.
While Arias could have been an extra squad option, it had become obvious even before this summer that Simeone did not trust Arias. With his salary off the books, it should help to ensure that all of Los Rojiblancos players are registered in time for their first match of the season against Getafe on the 15th of August.
Hello i am atletico Madrid fans from Nigeria ,,all I want atletico Madrid to do this season is to compete with real and Barca for laliga and Even left the champion league,,, please all our players need to respect them self and love one another and to also work as a team that is our priority if really the need to be emerge as champion ,,,and the incoming player need to show respect to the old one…
please the kind of attitude that most of our players are acting I don’t like it ,,it was the reason that we lost to real in the Copa de Rey last season …and our players at time depends on our goalkeeper which is bad,,the players need to help the goalkeeper all the time ,,but is unfortunately because we’re playing defense game all the time…we need to change our tactics and challenge for tittle…