Diego Simeone has set a deadline for his job at Atlético de Madrid: “My contract depends a lot on how we finish the season”

Diego Simoncoach of Atletico Madridhe explained this Saturday that his “contract” with the rojiblanco club until 2024 “depends a lot” on how the team ends the season, with Champions League qualification being the key factor, and reviewed that “each finale” of the campaign meet with executives to see how they are doing, with whom “this year will be no exception”.

Is your intention to continue beyond this season? “Is that considering a situation as simple as you explain is related to many things. There is a contract that is related or not related to my continuity, there is obviously a season finale from which we always come together, thank God, always reach the objectives so they’ll find out when the season ends what’s going to happen“He answered at the press conference after the team’s training session on the eve of the visit to Osasuna.

Diego Simeone has a contract with Atlético de Madrid until June 30, 2024, although there is a clause that would reduce the fee in the event that the rojiblanca team does not enter the Champions League places and the club decides to do without of the coach at the end of the course.

El Cholo has been in charge of the Spanish capital club since 23 December 2011 and has already led the team for 12 seasons. He won the Europa League twice, was the champion of the European Super Cup twice, managed to win the Spanish championship in two seasons by beating the two giants Barcelona and Real Madrid, he lifted a Copa del Rey and a Spanish Super Cup. Eight titles in 12 years. He is the most successful manager in the club’s history.

It is not the first crisis that Simeone faces at Aleti, but up to now he has always been able to reverse the image. The elimination of the Copa del Rey against Real Madrid this Thursday is the new trigger for criticism.

This Sunday the Cholo team will face Osasuna and the coach explained that he behaves “as always”. “From our work and in what we usually do as a lifestylePersonally, but at work, when you give your best, when you work following a specific match like the one the other day and you play as well as you could, while we work and try, you are calm, because you have done what they have to do “, he expressed.

“I am serene, with the tranquility of having played a great game which, due to certain circumstances, was not on our side and congratulations to the rival for having passed the phase”, declared the coach, who insisted “game by game, more than ever”, with the first stop against Osasuna in El Sadar.

“We need a long second leg and we will end up with an enthusiastic opponent, with an excellent coaching job, very regular in his time at Osasuna, always competitive, always with difficult and complex matches. They have that positive energy that leads you to being in the semifinals, he will certainly rotate, as he has done in almost all matches, because he has guys committed to the idea he has, and we to take the match where we believe we can do damage and continue in the line we are behaving”, he added.

Simeone explained that his players are “certainly tired, with considerable stress”after extra time against Real Madrid last Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey and “looking for the team to respond well at a quarter past four in the afternoon that we have to play”.