The Atlético Madrid Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $35.8M for Hugo Duro
Atlético Madrid have gone to Valencia with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Atlético Madrid rebuffed over Mikel Jauregizar
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Athletic Bilbao have kept their man, and Atlético Madrid go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Atlético Madrid say no — this time
The offer from Valencia for Giuliano Simeone was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jan Oblak raises the bar for Atlético Madrid
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Atlético Madrid heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Julián Álvarez signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Julián Álvarez and Atlético Madrid agree another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Cristian Romero in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atlético Madrid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Julián Álvarez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julián Álvarez, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Atlético Madrid promote José León from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. José León has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Aimar Rubio joins the Atlético Madrid first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aimar Rubio is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout Ademola Lookman knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Julián Álvarez wants to know why he earns less
- Squad Morten Hjulmand still has not settled