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He made Atletico a top3 team in Spain, also in the world for some years, he definitely is one of goat coaches.

El Cholismo must go on

At this point, I don't even remember any other manager of atletico madrid.

No other manager in the world can offer us the stability that Cholo does, especially considering our incompetent board and the lack of investment in the transfer market.

Hopefully by the time his contract is up, Fernando Torres will be in line to overtake him. It’s just impossible to imagine anyone but Cholo being here at the moment, but eventually his time will come.

Man out there stealing a living. Keep on going king

Am I stupid or wasn’t there an announcement a couple of years ago that he was gonna leave soon?

The job Simeone has done with Atlético is legendary, not surprised he keeps renewing

Spare a thought for whoever has to succeed Simeone when he does decide to leave Atletico.

he will be there until they won a champions, or he dies

wichever comes first

Can't imagine him at any other club now.

I wonder what whoever finally take his position at Atleti will think. "Big shoes to fill", but those are kayak sized. Like replacing SAF.

glad i watched him since he started with atleti

The day Simeone leaves Atleti will truly be the end of an era.

I can't think of any manager who's stuck with a top flight club for as long as him, Wenger or Ferguson

One of the best of all time

Seemed like there was a bit of talk a number of years ago about him eventually moving on, usually linked with Inter. There any reason why all of that seems to have totally died down?

I really want Simone Izanghi swap place with Cholo because both team using similar formation but Simone tactic are better in attacking can compete against Manchester City.

Crazy that this year people were saying it's the end of his time at Atletico

Chelsea would pay him double

Great , 3 more years of cheating , dangerous tackles , pathetic diving and asshole statements from Simeone. And if you can’t see how Atlético are worse than other major clubs for those things , you don’t know shit about football

Perfect birthday present for Felix

Cholo has really reinvented himself. People who don’t watch Atleti matches still think they play the defensively dark arts oriented style that had from around 2013-2016.

Between 2017-2019 cholo realized he needed to play more attack oriented football because Atleti kept dropping points by drawing against mid table teams and thus couldn’t really challenge for the league. He had a major rebuild the year they sold Greizmann and Lucas Hernandez ( by buying Felipe, Hermoso, Lodi, Llorente and Felix) and won the league the year after. Rodri and Partey were supposed to be the double pivot of the future after Gabi’s retirement but they had low release clauses and left. He switched from the 442 which he was known for to a 532. He converted Koke to a holding midfielder, llorente to an attacking midfielder, and Lemar to a box to box midfielder.

Atleti has been defensively weak and offensively strong for several seasons. The time wasting and aggressive fouls have gone away too. They had 0 red cards in la liga when the won a coupon of seasons ago. Now they are one of the top scoring teams in Europe. The 3 central defenders are selected more for their offensive contribution than their defending.

The only real criticism is his failure to develop Joao Felix. However Felix had 2 good seasons but was just injury prone because he was getting beat up by La Liga defenders. Felix carried the team the first half of the season when they won la liga last. Felix didn’t pan out in the end because Greizmann came back and was just better with more work ethic. If you look at Felix with Barca now he is a hard worker who tracks back. He has become a better all around player. Greizmann was successful with France and Felix with Barca because they learned how to be better all around players because of Simeone.