Home › Spanish Football News

Coupet rethinks Atletico Madrid exit

Submitted by tribalfootball.com on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 07:55

Gregory Coupet is expected to shelve plans to quit Atletico Madrid at the end of the season.

The veteran goalkeeper was preparing to return to France after being forced to play second-fiddle to Leo Franco in coach Abel Resino's plans.

However, with Franco deciding to leave Atletico at the end of the season and Resino also to be shown the door, Coupet has had a rethink and is now prepared to stick it out in Madrid.

Atletico are in talks for Real Valladolid keeper Sergio Asenjo, but the youngster would initially arrive as understudy to the experienced Frenchman.

Read more:

Comments (1)

Submitted by Kelechi Yusuf (not verified) on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 20:32.

Atletico,go get Martin Jol from hamburg...fits in the team philosophy of sexy football

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Filtered words will be replaced with the filtered version of the word.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <i> <b> <a> <p> <br> <dd> <blockquote> <q>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Glossary terms will be automatically marked with links to their descriptions. If there are certain phrases or sections of text that should be excluded from glossary marking and linking, use the special markup, [no-glossary] ... [/no-glossary]. Additionally, these HTML elements will not be scanned: a, abbr, acronym, code, pre.

More information about formatting options