Atlético Madrid was without Caglaro Sojundzu in this transfer window, Cesar Aspliqueta and Jose Maria Jimenez were injured, so Diego Simeone had to look for a new stopper.
All the Spanish media report that it is over - the new player of the "colconeros" will be the Brazilian from Valencia, Gabriel Paulista.
The player who arrived at "Mestalja" from Arsenal in the summer of 2017 is standard with Ruben Baraha, but the owner of the club Peter Lim wants to get rid of him.
The reason for this is that Paulista played 19 games for Valencia this season and if he steps on the field again, the clause on the automatic extension of cooperation for another year, worth five million euros, will be activated.
Coach Ruben Baraha said that he is not interested in the situation with the players' contracts and that those who deserve it will play, and Lim decided to get ahead of him.
That's where Atletico stepped into the story, who could get a standard member of the first lineup of their La Liga rivals for free.
Paulista has reportedly agreed on all the details of the cooperation for a year and a half and is only waiting for him to pass the medical examinations. It's just a formality, but because of that, the already agreed loan of Moise Ken from Juventus fell through.
It remains to be seen whether the arrival of the 33-year-old stopper will affect his peer from Mojkovac, Stefan Savić.
The best Montenegrin footballer has recently been irreplaceable in the starting line-up of Atlético, but the Spanish media wrote that the club from "Metropolitan" does not want to activate the clause on the automatic extension of his contract.
Apparently, for that he needs to play 20 games this season, and Savić was on the field 17 times. If he plays three more, he could be a resident of Madrid for a full decade...
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