Filipe Luis feigns a look of trepidation as he explains what it’s like for a player to receive a text message from Diego Simeone.
‘Now I can send and receive messages from him as a friend but back then every time I received one – cue look of dread – it was stressful,’ he says.
Simeone, whose side face Chelsea on Tuesday night in the Champions League last-16, has been putting the fear into rival teams, and his own players, for nearly ten years at Atletico Madrid.
Filipe, like Diego Costa, left to win the Premier League with Chelsea, only to miss the old boss and go back for some more punishment.