Álex Baena

David Alba is a potential target for Club America of Mexico after he left Real Madrid.

Atletico Madrid are not planning to sell Alex Baena anytime soon, despite interest from Man City.

That's probably true, but Football Insider wouldn't know.

Manchester United and Tottenham both had representatives in Belgium on Tuesday to watch Club Brugge's German striker, Nicolo Tresoldi.

And I was kind of shocked that we didn't see a Johnny Cardoso game.

You know, I thought you could have maybe subbed off Juliano or maybe Baena and brought Cardoso in to kind of help support.

Because I think if you have a double pivot like that, you can give more support to your defense, who is clearly struggling.

And, you know, you still have Pablo Barrios being able to create and, you know, huff the ball up to Kagan Lee and Julian Alvarez.

We're missing a couple of players who can really take us to the next level that we just didn't sign.

And probably

my least favorite part of our attack, this match in particular, was that Baena free kick.

where he just huffed it over to Giuliano on the right, and then he skied it over the goal.

And a couple of others that you may recognize from the World Cup.

Alex Baena on the left and Giuliano Simeone, the 23-year-old Argentinian left wing back, if they were playing that true 5-2-3, causing a lot of problems, not just for Liverpool, but for the referee as well.

And then quite a lot of recognisable mistakes.

names on the bench ademola lookman who of course scored that hat trick in the europa league final who did come on in the second half alejandro grimaldo former teammates of florian vertz and jeremy frimpong during their um Bayer Leverkusen days, Robin Lennon-Mann, of course, someone that we recognize from the Spain national team.

It just completely died.

It didn't matter whether it was Baena on the ball, Lukman who came off the bench, David who came off the bench, Julian in the second half.

It didn't matter who got on the ball.

Liverpool defender was able to always cancel it out.

I know, yeah, for about 20 years.

They've got Alex Baena up top, who's proven quite well for them.

Luckman, who they signed from Atalanta.

And then Lee, who they signed from PSG.

The window's closed, so I don't think they have.

Manchester City are keeping tabs on Alex Baena.

I doubt it.

I really do doubt it.

The window's closed, so I don't think they have.

Manchester City are keeping tabs on Alex Baena.

I doubt it.

I really do doubt it.

Juliano Simeone has been okay.

Baena has been okay at moments.

I feel there's a big window right now for Jonathan David, given time, he stays healthy, to become an important and impactful player at Atletico de Madrid.

He absolutely can.