On the night of the match between Atletico Madrid and Getafe, Diego Costa, who left the field early due to injury, was diagnosed with a concussion by the hospital.

However, it is somewhat reassuring to note that Diego Costa's concussion symptoms are not very serious, and it only takes 3 weeks of rest to recover. So, if nothing else, Diego Costa should be able to play in time for a direct clash with Barcelona in two months' time.

At the same time, due to the unexpected injury of Diego Costa, Feng Quan regained his position in the contract renewal negotiations with Atletico Madrid. After all, with the team's main arrowhead out injured, Diego Simeone can no longer find a valid reason to hide his wind.

So, on the morning of the second day after Atletico Madrid's home sweep of Getafe, the club's general manager, Paul Forteray, took the initiative to reach out to Feng Quan, hoping to start negotiating a contract extension again.

Although the club's practice of "hiding" itself in order to put pressure on itself made Feng Quan's heart quite dissatisfied. However, considering that he has not been able to represent other clubs in the rest of the Champions League this season, and he is quite comfortable in the team, Feng Quan still "generously" accepted the other party's request to restart negotiations.

Of course, even if Feng Quan is willing to restart contract renewal negotiations with Atletico Madrid, Feng Quan is not prepared to make too many concessions on the issue of liquidated damages. After all, in Feng Quan's future career planning, in addition to leading the Chinese football team to the World Cup again, the biggest goal is to join the old Serie A giants that he has always longed for, and lead them to rise again and return to the top of Europe again with his own ability.

Therefore, Feng Quan would rather keep his current salary unchanged than accept the liquidated damages clause of 150 million euros proposed by Atletico Madrid. After all, the Serie A giants that Feng Quan likes can't afford to pay this huge amount of liquidated damages.

However, Atletico Madrid were equally reluctant to relent, even if Diego Costa's absence due to injury made them a little passive, only to reduce the amount to 140 million euros. However, in order to show their sincerity, Atletico Madrid's offer for Feng's weekly salary has also been increased to 140,000 euros.

Because Atletico Madrid took the lead in expressing its sincerity, Zhao Shijie made some concessions on the issue of liquidated damages under the instruction of Feng Quan, but even so, the amount of liquidated damages he proposed still has a huge gap of nearly 50 million euros with the club.

In this way, Feng Quan's contract renewal issue once again reached an impasse.

However, the afternoon before the whole Atletico Madrid team flew to St. Petersburg, Russia, David Villa, who had just scored a hat-trick against Getafe, accidentally sprained his ankle in training.

Although David Villa's injury was not very serious, the team doctor Pedro Aquino made a "diagnosis" of recuperation for at least a week to be on the safe side.

As a result, in the away game against Zenit St. Petersburg, Atletico Madrid was left with only two strikers, Feng Quan and Adrian López.

In order to ensure that the team can get out of St. Petersburg, where the temperature has dropped below freezing, Paul Forley has no choice but to find Fengquan again to negotiate a contract extension. And this time, in order to show enough sincerity, Paul Fortrey directly made a weekly salary offer of 150,000 euros, and also lowered the amount of liquidated damages to 130 million.

Since Paul Fortley has shown enough sincerity on the issue of contract renewal, Zhao Shijie also made some concessions again at the behest of Feng Quan. In order to solve the contract renewal problem as soon as possible, so as not to affect Fengquan's competitive state, Zhao Shijie proposed two solutions to the problem of liquidated damages.

The first option: the amount of liquidated damages for Fengquan cannot exceed 90 million euros, and the weekly salary will remain unchanged at 135,000 euros when the two parties first contacted. However, if Atletico Madrid can win La Liga or lift the Champions League trophy, Feng Quan hopes to receive an additional 1 million euros.

The second option: Feng Quan can accept the liquidated damages clause of 130 million euros proposed by Atletico Madrid, and at the same time accept a weekly salary of 150,000 euros. However, one day in the future, when the Serie A giants that Feng Quan likes want to buy him, the amount of liquidated damages will be automatically reduced to 80 million euros. Otherwise, Feng Quan would rather give up this opportunity to raise his salary, and will never accept the club's contract renewal conditions.

Although Paul Forre, as the club's general manager, has some decision-making power, it is still up to the club's "big boss" Enrique Cerezo to make decisions when there is a huge disagreement over the renewal of key players.

After listening to the two proposals proposed by Zhao Shijie, Enrique Cerezo immediately chose to think about it.

After a long time, Enrique Cerezo finally said to Paul Fortre: "Just sign according to the second option they proposed." ”

In addition to the factor of hoping to solve the renewal of Fengquan's contract as soon as possible, so as to avoid other clubs forcibly poaching Fengquan with a "low price of 50 million euros", the old Serie A giants that Fengquan likes now cannot afford to pay 80 million euros in liquidated damages is the fundamental reason why Enrique Cerezo accepted the second plan.

Pay 80 million euros in liquidated damages for the whole person? No kidding, just look at the so-called Serie A giants' recruitment in the transfer market in the past two summers to see how bad their financial situation is now.

So, just before the whole Atletico Madrid team flew to St. Petersburg, Zhao Shijie finally reached an agreement with the club on the renewal of Fengquan's contract.

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At 9 p.m. local time on November 26, the Zenit St. Petersburg team, which was playing at home, finally welcomed the challenge of Atletico Madrid.

Although the St. Petersburg Stadium, which is the venue for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, both the quality of the turf and various hardware facilities have reached the first-class European standards. However, as we enter November in Russia, the average temperature has already dropped below freezing, and the temperature on the night of the race has dropped to minus 26 degrees.

Therefore, even top European giants such as Barcelona and Real Madrid are not easy to get out of the freezing weather in Russia.

In order to maximize its advantages of being more adapted to the cold climate, the Zenit St. Petersburg club is very "perverted" to set the game time in the evening when the temperature is relatively low.

However, this trick of the Russians may have an impact on players in Spain or South America, who are already accustomed to the warm winter climate. But for Fengquan, who was born in northeast China, where the winter is very cold, it hardly has any effect.