Mateu Alemany and Simeone's curious chat at Atlético training

Mateu Alemany realised he was being filmed at training and turned away mid-conversation with Diego Simeone. Rubén Uría and Nacho Donado discuss the gesture and the narrative of a supposedly bad relationship.

Footage captured by 'El Desmarque' at Atlético training sparks a light-hearted discussion. Rubén Uría highlights Mateu Alemany's quick thinking: he noticed he was being filmed while talking to Simeone and shifted position, as if to say nobody should read his lips. "Say what you like about him, but he's sharp," he sums up.

Nacho Donado explains that the sporting director is used to it by now. Every time journalists turn up at training they film him, so he knows that if he is going to talk about something important, he has to turn around. He compares it to a gesture that would earn you a booking on the pitch. He adds that chats between Mateu and Simeone are common, although he stresses that it is not as if the two are inseparable. And he points out that they draw more attention now because, since the transfer window closed, the cameras no longer chase Julián Álvarez as much.

Uría jokes about asking Simeone at his next press conference what joke Mateu told him, because the pair of them were laughing. He quips that these were the two who supposedly couldn't stand each other. Donado closes with a reflection: narratives serve certain interests, and what suits someone today stops suiting them tomorrow.