Diego Simeone has spoken out on Joao Felix’s future amid hyperlinks to Manchester United.
A report from AS lately claimed that Manchester United have been enthusiastic about signing Atletico Madrid striker Felix as they give the impression of being to discover a long-term substitute for Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ronaldo’s contract expires on the finish of the season, and as every month goes by it appears to be like more and more possible that he’ll go away the membership, with Erik ten Hag typically solely utilising him from the bench.
Now, Atletico Madrid supervisor Simeone has spoken out about Felix’s future.
“Joao is likely one of the gamers who has scored essentially the most targets out of the forwards we’ve, past the truth that he has three now. He has the purpose and hopefully he can proceed to be with us and that he can carry out on the stage he has proven so many instances taking part in and to point out that he has a purpose as a result of we’d like him,” stated Simeone, as relayed by Marca.
It seems Simeone isn’t even entertaining Felix leaving the membership. Felix has struggled at instances at Atletico, however the Portuguese striker remains to be very younger and has huge quantities of potential.
Felix can be the perfect striker for Manchester United. Relatively than signing a participant of the profile of Ronaldo, who was at all times going to begin declining after becoming a member of the membership, they need to be trying to goal a youthful, up-and-coming participant who can develop on the membership for a few years.