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Comparable to Manchester United! Atletico Madrid spent 175 million euros this summer, but only two points were accumulated after two rounds

4:01am, 27 August 2025【Football】

In 2024, Atletico Madrid spent 188 million euros to sign up, but all four major players were gone. In fact, in March of this year, they were still competing for the championship in the third line, once leading the La Liga standings, and the Cup of Rey was unstoppable. They faced Real Madrid head-on in the Champions League knockout stage, and then they completely stopped.

In the summer window of 2025, they once again spent 175 million euros and introduced 10 new players in a row. In the new season, Simeone wrote four big words on her face: I want to win the championship.

Atle Madrid won the championship last time in 2021, and now Simeone has entered his 14th season of coaching Atletico Madrid. He has become the godfather of Atletico Madrid and has the highest annual salary in Europe, but now he is becoming more and more like a team burden. This is similar to Wenger during the Arsenal period. Time will dilute honors, and fans only like new things, including coaches.

An indisputable fact is that in recent years, Atletico Madrid seems to be the third pole outside the Spanish Super League and La Liga. The third place is as stable as an old dog, and it is difficult to enter the top two.

, if you don't have that ability, you can still keep the Champions League. Last season, they were 8 points away from Real Madrid in the league, 6 points higher than Bilbao in fourth place.

The Spanish Super League is not reachable, and La Liga looks down on it.

The bed sheet army has its own ambitions, and they will not be willing to be the foil of the Imperial Sa. So the investment of over 100 million yuan for two consecutive seasons came. No one expected that at the beginning of the season, they would have spent the most money and suffered the most painful hit. They lost and tied one in the first two rounds of the league, and their opponents were all relegation teams, but Atletico Madrid only got one point, which was comparable to Manchester United, who spent 240 million to sign.

The only comforting thing is that they scored one more goal than Manchester United.

Atletico Madrid also spent a lot of money on upgrading the offensive line. The team's internal champion Baena had only second only to Yamal's assists last season. He originally thought he was the best partner of Spider-Kid and Sollot, but now he is collectively silent.

Aging is one of the crux of Atletico Madrid's past. This summer, Witsel, Azpilicueta and others left, and Griezmann was completely marginalized. He only had 44 minutes of playing time in the first two rounds, and replaced by the younger offensive core Alvarez, and the average age of the 26-year-old main player.

Another key factor for the team is the depth of the bench. The main reason why they missed the championship is that they lost points that they should not have lost when facing the mid- and lower-level teams in La Liga. Only with stable ability to abuse food can ensure that they do not fall behind in the competition with Emperor Sa, but they actually don’t have many ways to do this. Simeone's ability to break the deadlock when facing intensive defense is still limited, and she often makes a furious shot without success, and then the draw ends, and the person who replaces it cannot solve the problem.

Simone's reinforcement ideas are clear, with two points: the team is younger and the lineup depth is strengthened. Among the 10 new players, there are 7 players under the age of 25. The team's hardness is still there, but the most critical issue is stability.

Half of Atletico Madrid's starting lineups this season are new players, and the problems brought about are very obvious. The players' cooperation is unfamiliar and not enough to get along, just like Manchester United's 200 million striker. Players want to perform, but they are always out of the system. Even Simeone himself was giving up his football philosophy, and the fierce and tenacious Atletico Madrid was leaving, replaced by the bed sheet army that emphasized offense and high-level oppression. But they still have many difficulties in winning the championship.