A special match. Wednesday evening, Antoine Griezmann will take to the pitch at the Parc des Princes two months after his last match in the France team jersey. In this very special year which saw him turn the page of ten years in Blue, the Atlético Madrid striker will have to make other choices for his future. At the end of his contract at the end of the season, the Frenchman has an optional year in his contract which he can activate or not as he wishes.
For now, the former Real Sociedad player has not yet decided but the signals seem positive regarding a one-year extension. Griezmann still wants to play at a high level and the club’s project, with targeted but fairly strong recruitment (Sorloth, Le Normand, Alvarez) last summer are all arguments which lean, for the moment, in favor of a renewal of its lease.
Asked about the subject during the press conference before the match against PSG, Diego Simeone did not comment despite the intimacy and trust he shares with the tricolor. “His extension? I don’t know. For him, I feel nothing but gratitude and I thank him. He was 23 when he came to us, and we grew up together. He has done magnificent things, with his selection, he has just passed the milestone of 400 matches with us (405 in all competitions), and so it was me who put him on the scoresheet 400 times,” recalled the Argentinian technician.
In a long response, the Colchoneros coach confided his admiration “for his work, his way of interpreting football and his way of living, as we saw with his exit from the selection, full of class. We will enjoy him for the time that remains. And if one day he were to leave, we would accompany him with great affection. » For football and Atlético Madrid, the later the better.
