Who agrees with him? Jamie Carragher thinks Diego Simeone would struggle to get a job at an elite Premier League club because he does not play the right type of football.
Fierce rivals Real Madrid eliminated Simeone’s Atletico Madrid side
from the Champions League on Wednesday, with a late Javier 'Chicharito'
Hernandez goal proving decisive.
Atletico attempted to strangle
the tie over the 180 minutes, while Arda Turan was sent off in the
second half of the second leg, but they were unable to repeat their
heroic run to the final last season.
Despite Jose Mourinho's
battling style seeing Chelsea thrive at the top of the Premier League,
Carragher does not believe Simeone’s rigidly physical tactics would
attract the attention of Arsenal, Manchester City or Manchester United.
"I love watching him [Simeone] on the sidelines. I love watching his
team play, a team of men. But there's no way a top team - an Arsenal, a
Man Utd, a Man City - will watch that and think 'that's the type of
football we want to play,'” he told Sky Sports.
“He's
with an underdog now. It's different. He's not coach of Real Madrid or
Barcelona. He's coach of Atletico. They're fighting against the odds.
“I admire him so much but talk of him going to a bigger club… I don't
think clubs will look at that and think 'we want our team to play like
that'. I don't think top teams, giants of European football and in our
league will want their teams to play like that."
Simeone has
won La Liga, the Copa del Rey, the Europa League, the Uefa Super Cup and
the Supercopa de Espana since taking the reigns at Atletico.
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