{"id":2740,"date":"2026-09-12T11:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:32:47","slug":"why-alexander-sorloths-mysterious-injury-is-causing-atletico-madrid-boss-diego-simeone-a-major-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2740","title":{"rendered":"Why Alexander Sorloth&#8217;s mysterious injury is causing Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone a major headache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Sorloth&#8217;s absence exacerbated a major shortage of recognised forwards at the start of the campaign. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/liverpool-atletico-madrid-julian-alvarez-champions-league\/blta1ef16901da4b6ca\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>Julian Alvarez<\/span><\/a><span> joined late following summer transfer speculation and illness, only making his first start against Liverpool at Anfield on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, deadline-day signing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/juventus-jonathan-david-to-atletico-madrid-is-done-the-details\/blt0f153be3c2fc66c0\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>Jonathan David<\/span><\/a><span> arrived late in the transfer window. Simeone was consequently forced to deploy Ademola Lookman out of position as a centre-forward, while Alex Baena and Kang-in Lee also filled in upfront.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sorloth was heavily linked with a summer departure, attracting serious interest from Juventus alongside enquiries from Turkey. However, Atletico refused to sell their striker for anything less than his full valuation of over \u20ac30 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorloth&#8217;s absence exacerbated a major shortage of recognised forwards at the start of the campaign&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laliga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2271960695.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}