{"id":2522,"date":"2021-08-31T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2021-08-31T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:46:46","slug":"report-barcelonas-griezmann-completes-shock-loan-move-to-atletico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/?p=2522","title":{"rendered":"Report: Barcelona&#039;s Griezmann completes shock loan move to Atletico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"40.363636363636\">\n<div readability=\"31.393939393939\">\n<p>Antoine Griezmann is set to begin a new chapter at Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona and Atletico reached an agreement shortly before Tuesday&#8217;s transfer deadline that sends the French forward back to the Spanish capital on loan for the upcoming season, according to Fabrizio Romano of The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The deal apparently includes a buy option worth \u20ac40 million to make the move permanent next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Griezmann reportedly agreed to a two-year contract, with an option to extend the deal an additional year, Romano adds.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-segment--image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/363616\/cropped_GettyImages-1139647645.jpg?ts=1561999451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/363616\/w220xh124_GettyImages-1139647645.jpg?ts=1561999451 220w, https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/363616\/w320xh180_GettyImages-1139647645.jpg?ts=1561999451 320w, https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/363616\/w640xh360_GettyImages-1139647645.jpg?ts=1561999451 640w, https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/363616\/w768xh432_GettyImages-1139647645.jpg?ts=1561999451 768w, https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/363616\/w1080xh607_GettyImages-1139647645.jpg?ts=1561999451 1080w\"\/><figcaption class=\"article-segment--image-caption\"><span class=\"article-segment--image-attribution\">Anadolu Agency \/ Anadolu Agency \/ Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The La Liga rivals reportedly initially discussed a swap deal for Griezmann and Atletico Madrid forward Joao Felix. Barcelona failed in their attempt to sign Felix on loan Monday before returning with a new offer involving Griezmann, who enjoyed a successful five-year spell with the Madrid club before moving to the Catalan capital in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona spent \u20ac120 million to sign Griezmann, but the club shopped him around this summer. Earlier talks with Atletico reportedly broke down over a potential swap deal involving the French forward and midfielder Saul Niguez, according to ESPN&#8217;s Sam Marsden and Moises Llorens. Atletico reportedly loaned the Spaniard to Chelsea for \u20ac5 million instead.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Griezmann scored 133 times in 257 appearances at Atletico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antoine Griezmann is set to begin a new chapter at Atletico Madrid. Barcelona and Atletico reached an agreement shortly before Tuesday&#8217;s transfer deadline that sends the French forward back to the Spanish capital on loan for the upcoming season, according to Fabrizio Romano of The Guardian. The deal apparently includes a buy option worth \u20ac40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-champions-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}