Griezmann Pledge Loyalty To Atletico Madrid

Atletico Madrid star man Antoine Griezmann has made an outward pledge of allegiance to the club hours after Manchester United cooled their interest in a summer transfer. United's change of approach emerged shortly after Atletico had an appeal against their transfer ban rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, a ruling which means they could not sign a replacement this summer if the France striker were sold.

Griezmann would still have a decision to make if another club agreed to trigger an £87m buyout clause in his Atletico deal, which runs until 2021 but he offered a hint at his thinking in a Twitter post on Thursday evening which read: “Now more than ever #Atleti #All together.”

The tweet was accompanied by a picture of him celebrating a Champions League goal against Leicester this season.