Overcoming the sadness of eliminated at the 2025 Club, Atletico Madrid has successfully recruited Alex Baena from Villarreal.
Accordingly, the representative of the capital Madrid agreed to pay 45 million euros for “golden submarines”, not to mention 5 million fees to get the signature of the 23 -year -old midfielder. This information was confirmed by the transfer expert Fabrizio Romano.
Baena has refused to transfer offers from Aston Villa, Bayern Munich and Saudi Arabia in recent months when he insisted on CEO Atletico Miguel Angel Gil Marín performed his move. Baena has been Atletico's top priority since the end of last year.
Often played in the left wing midfield position in Marcelino's 4-4-2 scheme, Baena ended the last season with 7 goals and 9 assists after 32 appearances and 2,595 minutes of play. According to FBREF data, Baena had 169 times creating opportunities (SCA) in La Liga (after Lamine Yamal) and he accumulated 320 SCA since the beginning of the 2023/24 season. 12.6 assists of expectations (far) and 95 important passes of England led the tournament.
Baena achieves this productivity and stability in many ways. Although his successful pass rate is not high, Baena has a relentless motive, as well as the ability to change the gameplay and bring the ball up from almost any position on the field. In addition to the remote indicators and impressive important passes, Baena ranked 3rd in La Liga in terms of successful passing into the penalty area and the fourth to create opportunities from dead ball situations.
The combination of these skills is very rare, and it put Baena in the leading tectonic midfield line in Europe. Depending on the system that Diego