The upcoming summer will be quite turbulent in the red-and-white part of the Spanish capital. The Champions League will be played at the Metropolitano next season as well, but the leaders of the Madrid club are definitely losing patience. In the domestic championship this season, the club is looking at the backs not only of Real and Barcelona, but also of the surprise of the year – Girona, and there were no more big results and a final breakthrough in the elite European competition. The desire to improve the results was the reason for the leaders of Los Colchoneros to start a complete overhaul of the team.The current first pick of Atletico Madrid is the top scorer of the Spanish league, Alexander Sorloth. The Norwegian is having a fantastic season, he scored 23 goals in the championship and the race for his signature is already starting. Villarreal spent 10,000,000 euros for the former Leipzig player last year, and now they will have the opportunity to almost quadruple the invested money.In Atlético, they are not satisfied with the team’s offensive potential. Only Antoine Griezmann is considered untouchable this summer, Memphis Depay and Alvaro Morata are considering leaving the club in the event of a good offer, and there is Joao Felix who is returning from a loan from Barcelona and his departure is also evident. The Mattress Makers should pay Villarreal 38,000,000 euros as compensation for Sorloth, although they hope that the buyout amount could be a few million lower, given the history of positive cooperation with the Yellow Submarine, from which they bought Diego Godin and Rodrigo in the past.##NAJAVA_MECA_8117860##If no agreement is reached, Atletico’s list includes various alternatives for the forward position. First of all, there is Girona’s revelation, Artem Dovbyk, who is second in the race for the Pichichi award, right behind the aforementioned Sorloth. The Ukrainian is one of the most responsible for his team’s historic placement in the Champions League, so it is certain that the fight for his pen-to-paper will be quite fierce.According to the Spanish media, one of the alternatives is Stuttgart’s Serhou Guirassy. The Guinean lad has scored 28 goals in the Bundesliga and with a release clause of €17,500,000, like the 26-year-old Ukrainian, he will be one of the most sought-after players in the upcoming transfer window.Other positions in the Madrid team are also being seriously considered, and there is growing talk about the departure of some names that were a standard memeber of the line-up years ago. Center defender Stefan Savić is the first on that list. The experienced Montenegrin, although he has a contract for another season, is ready to leave the club already this summer. Çağlar Soyunçu is on loan at Fenerbahçe and after the end of his temporary work at Bosphorus, he does not plan to return to Atlético, but will start looking for a new team. Another defender, Mario Hermoso, is on the exit door of the club considering that his contract is expiring, and the agreement on the continuing the cooperation has not been reached.Sorloth- Real Madrid 4:4, Lewa’s most expensive goal sees Barca lose €1,25mIn midfield, the situation is similar, Thomas Lemar did not live up to Diego Simeone’s expectations even in the end of the season, which was confirmed by the head of Atletico himself, and the fate of the Frenchman is in great doubt. Among the other players, the situation with Saul Niguez is debatable, the Spaniard plays erratically and clearly lacks self-confidence, as he himself admitted.It is clear that the coaching staff of Atlético, led by coach Simeone, expects a difficult transfer window, in which they will have to make many important decisions, but also invest a larger amount of money, if they want to make the club competitive in the fight for major trophies.
