Atlético signs full-back Doherty and transfers Felipe to Forest

MADRID, 31 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Atlético de Madrid confirmed on Tuesday the signing of the Irish full-back Matthew James Doherty, who arrives at the rojiblanco team after terminating his contract with English Tottenham, while the Brazilian center-back Felipe Monteiro leaves for Nottingham Forest.

The mattress team indicated that Doherty, 31 years old and who passed the pertinent medical examination, signs for the remainder of the season and with a view to reinforcing the right-back position where currently only the Argentine Nahuel Molina was, in addition to the alternative of Marcos crying.

The man from Dublin, who will be presented this Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Cívitas Metropolitano, had played 16 games with Tottenham so far and, according to Atlético, is "a corpulent right-handed winger, with the capacity to also occupy the demarcation of interior-, safe high up and who holds the position well in defense and once he regains possession of the ball, his good long movement facilitates the creation of attack plays".

Doherty, international with his country on 29 occasions, began his professional career with Wolverhampton Wanderers and has gone through Hibernian and Bury before returning to the 'Wolves' where he was between and 2020, playing 302 games. Later, he went to the 'Spurs'.

On the other hand, Atlético de Madrid also announced that it has reached an agreement with Nottingham Forest for the transfer to the English team of the central defender Felipe Monteiro, which puts an end to his time at the club where he arrived in the summer of 2019, coming from FC Porto Portuguese.

The Brazilian defender had barely counted for Diego Pablo Simeone this season, in which he had played four games, three in LaLiga Santander and one in the Champions League. In total, he leaves with 113 official matches as a mattress player and as a key part of the squad that won the league title in the 20-21 campaign.