With the 2026 La Liga season just around the corner, our crew is taking a moment to discuss Diego Simeone’s Atlético Madrid squad. Join Claudia Pagan, Nico Cantor & Master Tesfatsion as they break down the recent transfers made by Atlético, debating whether or not Simeone’s side has enough quality to win La Liga over the likes of Real Madrid & Barcelona.
0:00 RECENT TRANSFERS for Atlético Madrid
0:30 What grade does Atlético get for their transfers?
1:04 BIG SIGNING of Álex Baena
2:08 This is Julián Alvarez’s team
2:32 Johnny Cardoso & Thiago Almada signings, losing De Paul
4:02 Julián Alvarez double-touch defines 2025
5:08 PLAYER SPOTLIGHT: Pablo Barrios
6:55 What does success look like for Atlético?
9:01 Is pressure MOUNTING because spending is rising?
10:37 What is the future of Atlético?
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Atletico gave peak Man City a really tough two legs with a back 5 of Renan Lodi, Mario Hermoso, Felipe, Stefan Savic, Sime Vrsaijlko
He made a great point, they are expected to be 3rd
If u add the spending of the last 3 years in la liga, atletico is number 1. Barely ahead of real madrid and moles ahead of barcelona.. what do u mean they should be third?
Athletico is a thrash club . It’s one club I will never support ever .Every season they r buying players yet in the end nothing to show
Media in Spain such Marca, As, and to many others… Are enemies of Atlético, everybody thinks that they are paid by the enemies of Atlético…specially the huge budget of Realmadrid…
Atlético did not loose agains Realmadrid in Champions, Atlético was pushed out by fake rule on penaltis bad applied… Such the Official Board of Rules pointed.
Lets just hope we dont have another window in the season where we have to play 3 times against Barcelona and 3 times against Real Madrid in a span of 6 weeks. That was brutal.
I think that Atletico de Madrid have no excuses to really fight for titles this season with the signings they have made. Let's see what happens…
Change the coach man. Cholo can only go this far. Remember, Madrid fired Ancelloti for failing to win UCL
The media never speaks about how much we sold and saved ok wages in order to spend so much
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JULIÁN ALVAREZ SPIDERMAN EL MEJOR DELANTERO TODO TERRENO DEL MUNDO 🕷️❤️🌍🇦🇷🏆🤟💪
"Money Spent" and not subtracting the sells is such a stupid move, do better
Last season’s schedule was difficult for them(march and early april), playing 3 matches against Barcelona and 2 against Madrid is ridiculous, adding the fact they had to play against Bilbao in between gets a huge toll over the players. 8 games over the span of 40 days is tough even more against the Spanish giants …
10:00 Atletico is at the level of Real Madrid and Barca!!! . Historically they might be fall short but Recency matters the most , anyways they still have to diliver though to prove it
Love this. Glad teams outside of the Premier League and Barca/RM get a whole spotlight segment. More of this for LaLiga teams as they are constantly under reported on.
Atleti starting to become like Ferrari in F1. I support them both 😭
You guys go No clue
The only chance they have to compete is now that barca is in this mess and cant sign and register players. Soon barca will be back financially then is over, cause they will be able to sign world class players
Is time for the coach to leave and take a break all this signings will make no difference with him as their coach
Atletico imo need 3 more signings:
1- A RB to eventually replace Molina eg Vanderson maybe
2- Another central defender eg Alex Ribeiro of Lille
3- A goalscoring 9 to pair with Julian. Remember Sorloth was the 2nd choice in attack for Cholo (who wanted Dovbyk), and he seems like a supersub. They need a guy who can score while playing 80-90 minutes unlike Sorloth who only scores off the bench
If they do that, then maybe. Lets wait one more summer but they should contend on all fronts.
ATM problem is the coach😂😂😂😂even 1 best player in the world this coach will destroy the player mentality 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My favorite squad!
Hancko is our best signing by far…whenever our defence is stacked we have a chance to win La Liga.
They say this every year