Simeone and Pochettino

Mauricio Pochettino and Diego Simeone know each other form their playing time with Argentina and coaching in Spain. Both have been linked with the vacant Argentina national manager role and both have ruled themselves out for now.

As you would expect they have both been very complimentary about the other and have been catching up with each other when time permits. Both sides are in pre-season with their own objectives on this tour. Our, on the field, is to give some game time to our senior players and some experience to our youngsters. They are not often going to get the chance to play in a 100,000 seater stadium.

In the first game against Juventus there were 31,000 and again our youngsters are not used to playing in front of such crowds with such expectations. It serves many purposes and dangles the carrot for them to work even harder to become a Premier League professional footballer.

This would be a potential starting line up in LaLiga for thoise wanting to see what sort of team Atletico are playing.

ATLETICO MADRID (4-4-2) - Oblak, Vrsaljko, Savic, Godin, Filipe Luis; Saul, Gabi, Koke, GAITAN; Griezmann, Torres.

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