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Diego Simeone insists he’s prepared for the battle as soon as once more as Atletico Madrid kick off a vital 2025/26 season.
Simeone has revamped his squad over the summer season, with €181m spent on ten new faces, the newest being Italy worldwide Giacomo Raspadori.
The problem for Simeone within the months forward is to steer his crew throughout a number of competitions and pose a significant problem to Barcelona and Actual Madrid.
An early exit from this summer season’s FIFA Membership World Cup might show to be a blessing with a higher relaxation interval triggered to permit Simeone and his gamers to reset.
Simeone able to go once more at Atletico Madrid
Regardless of the stress surrounding him over making his new signings click on from the off, Simeone is assured the hearth burns as sturdy as ever, forward of this weekend’s opener at Espanyol.
“I’m very pleased. I’m pleased the place I’m. I nonetheless have the power that the place I occupy requires. I do know the results, good, common, and dangerous, of the place I’m,” as per Marca.
“The crew has developed enormously, and the crew must evolve accordingly. Lately, the crew has grown greater than the membership; the membership matched the crew; then the membership grew extra, however the crew didn’t.
“Now, the crew must take one other step to match the membership’s present place.”
Forward of his return to motion, Simeone nonetheless holds the report for probably the most video games managed at a single La Liga membership, with 739 on the helm within the Spanish capital.
His onto 509 within the all-time La Liga video games listing, and can transfer joint ninth with Joaquin Caparros at Espanyol, plus a powerful trophy listing besides.
Two La Liga titles are the crowning image of his time in cost, alongside two UEFA Europa League crowns, and the 2013 Copa del Rey.
