In fact, Real Madrid, which basically brought in great players like Mbappe and several other potential young players, in reality Real Madrid still failed to start this season perfectly. So, if a team like Real Madrid can also fail, especially a team like Atletico whose quality is basically below Real Madrid, then of course Atletico can also fail even though they managed to bring in great players in the last transfer market.
But even so, of course Real Madrid and Atletico still have the same chance to be candidate teams for the trophy this season. Because after all, basically La Liga will always be related to the three teams and they are Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico. Although sometimes Atletico also has difficulty staying in the top three, but over time Atletico has always managed to finish in the top four.
There is one thing about football which people don't know, sometimes those teams that made the highest signings during the transfer market are not always able to perform as people expected them to, and that's exactly what's happening to Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid because they made good signings whereas Barcelona couldn't make any quality signings due to their financial predicaments but now who is performing better? Isn't it Barcelona? But however the La Liga traditional 3 teams always revolves around Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid so I believe the two Madrid's teams will get back to their best soon just that they are facing some early stage difficulties now but they will soon bounce back stronger and in full energy.