If your reaction to last night is to start pushing a "Cholo out" agenda...

...then I truly think you have zero understanding of what makes this club special. Hiring another coach isn't going to magically bring trophies. Honestly if you just want to moan about the manager every time a result doesn't go your way why don't you just go support Madrid or Chelsea or Barcelona or some other soulless big club?

Cholo has made Atleti able to compete on the same level as clubs that sign the best players in the world in their position every summer. Clubs with double the wage budget that Atletico have - I've said on this sub a couple times recently, but statistically in football a club's salary expenditure accounts for 92% of it's league position. The club was, until last night, alive in every single competition it competed in this season, and that loss was by the narrowest possible margin against a club that has world class players all over the pitch. Atleti, on the other hand, started with Lenglet, Giuliano and Reinildo - remind me how highly rated any of them were before the season started?

Last season when the "Cholo out" stuff had a lot more momentum, some of us were saying that you can't expect the team to compete with the biggest clubs in the world when the squad had had so little investment since COVID. After last summer, you see a clear difference in how the club is able to compete, despite certain positions clearly still being a huge issue, namely full backs and holding midfielder. If you don't recognise the difference that has made, whether Atleti win a trophy this season or not, and see that the problem was never the coach, it's deliberate blindness to suit an agenda at this point. You cannot reasonably have beating a team with 'best in the world in their position' candidates taking up half their first 11 on your list of requirements for a coach to not be sacked.

Honestly I wanted to use much, much harsher words to make the above point in a much shorter and less nuanced way, but when Correa did a similar thing last weekend it got him a 5 game ban, so I figured it wouldn't be the smartest idea.

Cholo in, always.