The obituaries were ready and the executions were planned, but what happened again?
Atleti almost died at Christmas. Broken by the ashes. It was cold in the corner of Cholismo. Very cold. Below zero. Many alighted from Cholo’s boat, which was always full. Those who supposed to believe stopped doing so, the team did not broadcast anything, and the mattress environment became “civil war.” With the European failure completed and with fear in the body of not finishing in the top four, only a few, in the open, believed in turning around what it didn’t seem to have. The executions of Diego Pablo Simeone were scheduled, the obituaries were about to be published, and the false prophets told us, for the umpteenth time in the past eleven years, that the project was exhausted, that Cholo’s message was no longer reaching the public. everything smelled rotten and that we were nearing the end of the manual cycle. The fridge was brought out and the champagne was chilling.
Today, fifteen games later, Diego Pablo Simeone is not dead. It is that, to the dismay of his accusers, he is once again more alive than ever. Whoever told us that Simeone was the worst Atleti is, truly, only two points behind Real Madrid, the current champions of the League and Champions League. And so second place. If it is achieved, it is not something to brag about. Not even to go to Neptune. But if the number two is achieved, if this season that looked bad comes back into line, it gives us reason to think about what the team has done in the first part of the season and especially what Simeone has had. to pass during this course. There is still a world left, nothing has been done, nothing is certain and Atleti will have to continue to apply game by game. In life, by the way, people have always been taught since school that it is better to finish second than third.
It remains to be seen if Atleti will continue at cruising speed, if they will secure the Champions League spot and if they will finally manage to give the ‘sorpasso’ to their neighbour. The field will tell. What cannot be debated is that the televangelists will have to explain how it is possible that Atleti are the strongest team in the League, when they had told us that the speech was exhausted, that Cholo’s message had not arrived, that Atleti had closed in on Luis Enrique and that Simeone had to pack his bags as it was the end of the manual cycle. They lied before. They will lie now. Being is pathological. They lie even when they tell the truth. They have wanted to throw Simeone away from Atleti for eleven years. This course they were salivating with the end of cycle hat, they had prepared the confetti and they had let the champagne cool. They waited eleven long years for Atleti to fall off the cliff. They have been predicting the end of the man in black who has been harassing their company for eleven seasons. They may eventually have to put the cava away for the umpteenth time, because at Blas’ party, the televangelists always bring an extra glass. They have been waiting for Simeone’s departure for eleven years. And it looks like they’ll have to keep waiting.
Reuben Uria
Source: Goal