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If you don't like it buy your own club, says Atletico chief after Champions League exit

Football - Champions League - Quarter Final - RB Leipzig v Atletico Madrid - Estadio Jose Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal - August 13, 2020. Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone talks to Atletico Madrid's Diego Costa. [Lluis Gene/Pool via REUTERS]

Atletico Madrid fans who were critical of coach Diego Simeone’s tactics should go out and buy their own club and pick their own starting 11, president Enrique Cerezo said on Friday after his club’s Champions League quarter-final exit to RB Leipzig.

Cerezo was disappointed with the 2-1 defeat to the unfancied German side but, whilst admitting there was plenty of criticism at the moment for Simeone, he added that he was not paying much attention to the dissenting voices.

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