The great data that reflects what Simeone has meant for Atleti and what Lim has meant for Valencia
Atleti and Valencia meet this weekend. They do it with their eyes fixed on two proper names. On the mattress side Diego Pablo Simeone. It’s made the club great, it’s brought it back to third in the all-time table and it’s the best thing to happen to Atleti in its 100+ year history. appears on the other side of the window Peter Lime. It has turned a big club into a small club, it has gone down the league table, it has put it in a very delicate financial situation and it has become a crushing coach, with up to 11 different coaches in 8 years, while Atleti have trusted, maintained and deployed by Simeone for the last decade.
whims of fate, Peter Lim was interested in buying Atleti in 2013, to enter the stock ownership of mattresses. However, Gil Marín did not want to part with his shares, so the Singapore magnate abandoned his hopes of taking over Atleti and had to look for another club. That was Valencia. In October 2014, thanks €94 million, Peter Lim took control of the majority parcel of shares and became the largest shareholder of a club installed in the noble zone. Since then, Valencia’s fall has been progressive and unbraked, while Atlético’s rise with Simeone has been really lightning fast. When Cholo landed at Atleti, Valencia was 69 points ahead of Atlético de Madrid in the historic standings. Eleven years later, Atleti now takes 179 points from the Ché club. In other words, in just over a decade, with Simeone at the helm, Atleti have scored 247 points against Valencia, who have become a dwindling team with Peter Lim. In 86 seasons in the First Division, Atleti have scored 3,866 points compared to Valencia’s 3,687, as shown by team-mate Tomeu Maura in ‘OK Diario’. In the current standings, the mattress team is even third, with 48 points, while the Ché team is seventeenth, with 26 points, 22 points behind Simeone’s men, which could be 25 if Baraja’s men fall in the Metropolitan.
The comparison is bloodier if you look at the figures of Atleti and Valencia in Europe. While Atlético de Madrid have qualified to play in the Champions League (100% of Simeone) in ten consecutive seasons and won titles such as the Europa League or the European Super Cup, Valencia have played three consecutive seasons without appearing in a European competition. games, and except for a miracle, he’s on his way to fourth. That assumes significant reputational damage, apart from a very hard blow to the club’s economy. The reality is that while Diego Pablo Simeone multiplied Atleti’s budget by four, won titles, shone in Europe and brought the club back to historic third place in Spain, Valencia is increasingly falling apart with Peter Lim. The numbers speak and the conclusion of the fans of both clubs responds to a feeling that is as united as it is reversed. The majority of Atleti fans want Cholo to last forever. And most of Valencia, that Peter Lim is leaving and never coming back.
Reuben Uria
Source: Goal