{"id":1559,"date":"2025-07-23T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:15:33","slug":"atletico-madrid-announce-departure-of-club-icon-next-club-has-been-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/atletico-madrid-announce-departure-of-club-icon-next-club-has-been-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid announce departure of club icon \u2013 next club has been confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Atletico Madrid have been busy in the last 24 hours, with two signings and now a contract termination having been announced.<\/p>\n

Marc Pubill was confirmed as an Atleti player on Tuesday, and one day on, he has been joined in Diego Simeone\u2019s squad by David Hancko, who joins from Feyenoord. But there has now been a significant departure \u2013 not in prominence, but in legacy.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Atleti made official the exit of Saul Niguez. The 30-year-old midfielder, who has been out of favour at the RiyadhAir Metropolitano in recent years, has agreed to mutual terminate his contract, the club has confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAtl\u00e9tico de Madrid and Sa\u00fal \u00d1\u00edguez have reached an agreement for the termination of the contract of the midfielder from Elche. The homegrown player, who will face a new professional challenge, ends his red-and-white career after having defended our shirt on 427 occasions, which makes him the ninth player with the most appearances in the club\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saul Niguez spent last season on loan at Sevilla (Image via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Atleti president Enrique Cerezo has also paid tribute to Saul, who had initially joined Atleti 17 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank him for his more than 15 years defending our shirt from our academy to the first team. He arrived as a young promise to our youth academy and after more than 400 games, assists, goals and titles he is already part of our history and one of our legends. Good luck for him and his family in this new stage and for all his personal and professional projects in the future. This will always be your home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saul has now joined his new club<\/h2>\n

Upon leaving Atleti, Saul has now joined Brazilian giants Flamengo. He had been very close to making the switch to Trabzonspor, but earlier in the week, it emerged that a move to T\u00fcrkiye had broken down<\/a>. Instead, he will continue his career in South America.<\/p>\n

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