🎁 Three Christmas gifts for Diego Simeone: here’s what the Argentine wants | OneFootball

It’s December 24th and Santa Claus is looking at the letter sent to him by Diego Pablo Simeone. He opens it and checks the gift requests from the Argentine coach.

It’s been a rollercoaster year of emotions, where Atlético de Madrid seemed indestructible in the 2024/2025 season, but Real Madrid in the Champions League and Barcelona in the Copa del Rey ended the aspirations of the colchoneros.

But anyone who knows Simeone knows that he never stops believing and always seeks to win, win, win, and win again.

Here are the three gifts Diego Pablo Simeone is asking for…

The Champions League is my obsession

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Atlético de Madrid has improved away from home at the end of 2025, which could help them survive in the Champions League, but at the Metropolitano, it’s more than that.

The red-and-white stadium is a cauldron where they have won eight matches, drawn one, and haven’t lost in the league, nor in the Champions League, where they have a perfect 9 out of 9 points.

That’s where Atleti can cling the most as they chase their obsession, the coveted title that Simeone and the colchonero fans desire so much.

A historic comeback to win La Liga

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2014, 2021 and… 2025? Atlético de Madrid is already nine points behind the leaders. It may seem like a lot, but the rojiblancos are already catching up to Villarreal and Real Madrid and, like a hungry Indian, they can smell the hunt for La Liga.

The worst moment of the season has already passed for the rojiblancos, but Barça, who finished 2025 in great form, could still have theirs.

Will they make it? It would be a tremendous achievement.

The magic of Mateu Alemany

Atleti signed Mateu Alemany as the new sporting director and they trust in his negotiating magic to strengthen Diego Pablo Simeone’s squad.

The coach wanted players like Cristian 'Cuti' Romero in the past, but the higher-ups at the Metropolitano gave up and instead signed Ruggeri, Raspadori, Thiago Almada, Johnny Cardoso… many players who have yet to shine and become key for the Argentine.

Now more than ever, he wishes for a fully refined squad with players like Koke, Pablo Barrios, Marcos Llorente, Oblak, or Julián Álvarez, whom he loves, to build a complete team. The ‘Cholo’ wants signings and more signings…

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