Griezmann After his return to the 'Atleti': "I wanted to go back yes or yes, is the best place for me"

This Wednesday 8 September the French forward Antoine Griezmann was presented by the Athletic of Madrid, club to the cual has returned afterwards of a pasantía quite questioned in the FC Barcelona, group that decided to last hours of the past market of signings happen of his services. «Knowing that the Atleti wanted me of turn, I wanted to go back yes or yes, is the best place for me», went the words of the footballer Frenchman, the one who posed for the first time his dorsal '8' after the return to Wanda Metropolitan.

In an interview conceded to the television of the club, 'The Pincipito' has signalled to be «very happy and very happy» by his turn to the team 'colchonero'. «It carried ten days without being able to sleep, because it was expecting the moment to go back here», has highlighted. «The last day of traspasos was a bit crazy, but at the end went out all very well. Had many win to go back to be colchonero, is the most beautiful that has happened me in these last years», has analysed in relation with the last day of the book of passes.

Griezmann Has taken advantage of the opportunity to express in front of to the fans of the 'Atleti', of which especula can pitarle in his first meeting under the direction again of the Argentinian trainer Diego Pablo 'The Cholo' Simeone, given the circumstances so controversiales in which it left in 2019 with direction to the Camp Nou. "I think that had a very beautiful relation between the fan and I, is something that want to go back to find", confessed.

«The fans that know that they go to have to a player that goes to leave everything in the field and that goes to do all the possible so that they are proud of this new player, of this new number eight and that ojalá together can live magic nights. The fans and I had a beautiful relation and is something that want to go back to find», sustained the ariete, the one who in two years with the Barça was able to invoice 35 goals, but far of the expectations that raised in the City Condal.

It valued the work of Simeone

"I think that They are doing very well the things in the Athletic and I will be in the field or went to help. There is an incredible changing room and an incredible team", said Griezmann, the one who valued the work of the Cholo: "it Is thanks to him, it has influenced a lot in my professional life, here lived my best moments to professional level and in my private life. Always it has been an enormous support for me and for my family, is a big honour for me play for him", added.