Although at first glance, Paul Fortre's remarks seem to be rejecting Diego Simeone's suggestion to bring in a new striker to strengthen the team. However, due to the close relationship between the two and the fact that they have worked together at Atletico Madrid in the past few years, Diego Simeone is well aware that there is some truth in the advice given by Paul Fortre.

Not to mention whether the transfer fee of only five or six million euros can impress the club where Diego Simeone's favorite striker is located, even if the opposing club agrees to release him, it is difficult to say whether the new striker can adapt to the tactical system of Atletico Madrid and whether it can temporarily replace Diego Costa.

Therefore, instead of spending five or six million euros on a gambling signing, it is better to dig into the team's existing personnel.

In fact, as early as the beginning of Atletico Madrid's away game against Sevilla, when Javi Torres told himself about Fengquan's performance in the practice match, Diego Simeone's mind had an idea to make a temporary cameo appearance for Atletico Madrid's team when the team's forward line needed to rotate personnel.

Although in the Bundesliga last season, Feng Quan was temporarily pushed up the front line when Hamburg's main striker Rudnev was absent due to injury. However, Feng Quan was rarely at the front of the team in that game, but more often cruising in front of the opposition penalty area, and even often retreated to the vicinity of midfield to seek cooperation with his teammates.

However, judging from the actual situation in the game, Feng Quan, who made a temporary cameo appearance in the shadow striker position, although it can also play a big role in the team's attack, is still significantly inferior to the threat he can create in the left winger position. After all, since Feng Quan switched to football, Feng Quan's favorite and best position is the left winger.

As for going to the front line as the team's forward center forward, as Diego Simeone envisioned, Feng Quan has not tried it at all, and has not even thought about it.

That's right, with Feng Quan's almost anti-heaven physical fitness, and the world's fastest running speed, he does have the potential to become a top striker killer. However, Feng Quan's heading ability is really average, and he is more accustomed to playing with the ball, so Feng Quan has neglected the improvement of his awareness of grabbing points.

Because of this, even in the Bundesliga last season, Feng Quan scored a staggering 22 goals in just 21 games after a wide break, a sudden cold arrow from the edge of the box, and a direct free-kick opportunity. However, none of those 22 goals came from inside the box.

In fact, for Feng Quan, who has excellent physical fitness, a brave style of play and is not afraid of physical confrontation, and his shooting ability is not weak, if he can greatly improve his awareness of grabbing points in front of the goal, it is not impossible to become a striker who helps the team destroy the city.

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Considering that it was close to the early hours of the morning when the players were flying back to Madrid, the first team of Atletico Madrid scheduled only an hour and a half of adjustment training in the afternoon on 19 August. As for the players who started in the away game against Sevilla, Diego Simeone directly gave them a day off.

However, even though the team did not have any training scheduled in the morning, Carlos Menéndez, the physical coach of the Atletico Madrid first team, arrived at the hotel where Feng Quan was staying at 9 o'clock in the morning and drove him to the Espino training base.

Although today is only the second day of Fengquan's arrival in Madrid, when Carlos Menéndez and Fengquan arrived at the Espino training base again, the number of Atletico Madrid loyal fans waiting at the exit of the training ground to ask for autographs from their favorite star was significantly higher than yesterday. Moreover, among this group of fans, a large part of them are still specially coming for the newcomers of the team.

Many people say that most Europeans and Americans feel that "Chinese athletes all look the same", not because the appearance characteristics of Chinese people are not obvious enough, but because their strength is not outstanding enough and their fame is not big enough.

Why Japan's Shinji Kagawa, Keisuke Honda; Can Asia's top stars such as South Korea's Park Ji-sung and Son Heung-min be easily recognized by club fans walking down the street when they go shopping in the cities where their respective clubs are located? The reason is very simple, because their strength is strong enough and their fame is big enough!

Because of this, although Feng Quan has not participated in any official match for Atletico Madrid so far, his amazing performance in the internal training match the day before was unreservedly watched by many supporters of the team who watched this training match. Even some interested fans used their mobile phones to record Feng Quan's highlight performance in the game during the game. Moreover, these videos have also been put on many personal social platforms.

In this way, Feng Quan only managed to "recruit" nearly 10,000 fans in Madrid with just one impressive performance in a practice match, and this number continues to increase over time.

Although Diego Simeone and Feng Quan agreed to meet at 10 o'clock in the morning, Feng Quan was late for the first "official" meeting with the team's coach due to Feng Quan's delay of more than ten minutes at the gate of the training base to meet the fans' autograph requests.

After sitting on the sofa opposite the coach of the Diego team, Fengquan scratched his head slightly embarrassed and said, "I'm sorry, Diego, I'm late." ”

Hearing this, Diego Simeone smiled and shook his head, "Don't mind, wind. If it weren't for the fans at the gate of the training base who stopped you and asked for autographs, you wouldn't have been late. ”

"Thank you for your understanding, Diego."

"Wind, on behalf of Atletico Madrid, I welcome you to our united, brave and harmonious family." After a slight pause, Diego Simeone continued: "Okay, that's all I have to say politely, let's get down to business." ”

"Okay." Feng Quan nodded.

"Wind, we adjusted the result of Sevilla's game away yesterday, you should know it too, right?" Diego Simeone asked.

"Yes, I watched the live broadcast of that game in my room after Carlos [Menendez] sent me back to the hotel yesterday afternoon." After a pause, Feng said with a smile: "By the way, I almost forgot." Diego, congratulations on leading your team to a successful start to the league on the road. ”

"Hehe, thank you, Wind." Diego Simeone said with a bitter look on his face. 'It was a great start to the league away from home, but Diego [Costa's] injury cast a shadow over us for the rest of the game."

After a pause, Diego Simeone continued: "Wind, do you know why the team didn't practice this morning, and I asked Carlos to take you from the hotel to the training base? ”