
“I promise you”. Álex Baena He has used his X account today for announce your Villarreal march and say goodbye to your hobby. «I love you yellow», Said the international midfielder, who will officially become a new Atlético de Madrid player during the next few days.
In football you have to make decisions, Today I have to take one and surely do not understand it . As I said, it would be the first to say it, although some have advanced before I do. The decision has been mine. It is not an official farewell, I promised you that it would be the first to say it and that I am doing, just as I promise you. I love you Groguets ». This has been the message that Álex Baena has published today, which is going to commit for the next six seasons for Atlético de Madrid, which pays for him a fixed 45 million euros plus another five million in variables.
Álex Baena's signing has cooked overly in Atlético. As Okdiario said in January this year, Last summer a preferential option was included By the player when the rojiblancos incorporated their team to the Norwegian striker Aleksander Sorloth. Everything was on the right track, although he was about to twist when precisely at the end of January the player received a dizzy offer from Arabic football. Al-Ahli was willing to pay its 55 million euros clause and offered the footballer a fabulous contract, but Álex Baena's will was always playing in the Spanish League and more specifically in Atlético de Madrid.
It was tried in vain to arrive at the team before the Club World Cup. The deal with Villarreal was closed, but Attempts to include Riquelme operation were unsuccessful and Atlético had to give up having the player in the United States. By the way, Baena did steal Yankee This summer, but in a much more tropical enclave, since its Hawaii vacations. Now, already back to Spain, it is a matter of time only that its signing is official.