Yes, Atletico Madrid is fairly well place in the table but no better than Barcelona, and to lead the league title next season I think Diego Simeone's squad is still under Xavi's team in some ways.
I don't see anything special about Atletico Madrid this season because they are indeed one of the favorites in the top four so nothing is different if we look at previous seasons
come on you can't compare Atletico Madrid with Barcelona, you're really making a wrong comparison
let's say that there are two strong teams, in my opinion, Real Madrid and Barcelona, the others have to fight to get into the Champions League
no one can aspire to first place in La Liga except those two at the moment
Yes indeed, in my personal judgment also that Atletico will never be able to get a big chance to win the La Liga title. Although for example Atletico can win the La Liga title, and maybe I will conclude that Real Madrid and Barcelona are experiencing a decline in performance in that season. Maybe this kind of judgment can be attributed to underestimating Atletico, but I don't care because it seems to be the reality. So yes, no matter how much effort Atletico put into building a team in the off-season like this, but in the end Atletico will still find it difficult to be the strongest team throughout the season in La Liga. But apart from this assessment, basically I don't hate Atletico because I like the style of play adopted by Diego Simeone who has strong characteristics in every match.
An important factor for this is that I think there needs to be some conditions where a change of coach might have to happen.
Even though Simeone is also one of the coaches who is quite good in La Liga but when talking about his career at Atletico it's been a very long time and I think there must be some changes to change some of the schemes that are carried out.
Simeone's schemes are always the same almost every season and of course the longer this goes on the more it will be read by other clubs because the pattern will not be much different.
His best season is also over for now after they won La Liga a few years ago but after that their performance was stagnant even though they could be in the top 3 again and again but when talking about the title race they still seem to be very difficult to do that.