James Rodriguez wants a move to Atletico Madrid and Los Rojiblancos are prepared to do everything in their power to land the Colombian this summer.
However, dealing with Real Madrid and fighting off competition from Napoli could prove to be major obstacles for Atletico.
Atletico are willing to wait as long as necessary in order to secure James' signature, even after spending 126 million euros on Joao Felix.
It looks like Atletico will take a more measured approach, biding their time and waiting for their moment to agree a deal.
Los Rojiblancos know that Real Madrid won't make it easy, but they hope that James' desire to stay in Madrid will be enough to force Florentino Perez's hand.
As the Marcos Llorente transfer has shown, it's not impossible to buy a player from Real Madrid if you're Atletico Madrid.
Napoli's pursuit of the midfielder was looking to be a successful one, but they've been unable to agree a fee with Los Blancos.
Carloer
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Nah man.. if you want to believe that James was only the Worl Cup, up to you, but facs would prove you are very wrong. He's well liked in Porto, Monaco, had a sick first season at Real Madrid and damn good first season with Bayern, consistently good performances with Colombia. 50 mil sounds about right and even on the cheap side for him.
Gonzalezer
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And what about lemar He will be rotated with Felix/James. Simeone is quite good at giving minutes to his players. Esp now Griezmann is gone there's no longer a player that'll get automatic starting spot (used to be the case with Koke and Saul too but with Thomas and Rodri resurgence he started rotating them as well). If James comes, Vitolo and/or Correa will likely to be sold, alongside with Kalinic.