Marca: Atletico Madrid want Sauer to leave, but fear he is unwilling to give up his high salary and choose to stay.【fangjie】

     According to Marca, Atletico hope that Sauer will leave this summer, but they are also concerned about the player choosing to stay so that the club needs to continue to pay its hefty salary.

    Inside Atletico, they have made it clear that this will be Sauer's last summer with the team, but the player's contract does not expire until 2026, so he has the discretion.

   Sauer's current contract with Atletico was signed in 2019, when he changed agents, moved from Mendes to Barnett and prepared for a possible move to the Premier League, Atletico believed that many teams would pay Sauer's release fee to take him away, so the two sides renewed a contract until 2026, his annual net income of more than 7 million euros.

    But Savour's competitive level has continued to decline since then, a year ago Atletico had informed him that the club no longer needed him, Savour after a failed Premier League journey to change the status quo, but the result is still not ideal, and he does not want to leave Atletico.

    From 2016 to 2020, his physical fitness was superb and he regularly scored goals. But such is Simeone's emphasis on new midfielders that he has scored just seven goals in the past three seasons (2021/22 was a poor season for Chelsea). Moreover, he is no longer the undisputed starter, with the undisputed midfielders of Lemar, Barrios, Llorente, Koke and DePaulo taking his place.

    This year Atletico once again made it clear to Sauer that leaving was the only way out for him, however that decision is now in the hands of the player and his team as he has two years left on his contract to take control of the situation. As a result, Atletico are worried about having to continue with Sauer's high salary and finding a way to convince him will be one of the toughest tasks for new director of Football Carlos Busero, who is in charge of leading the team's plans for personnel changes.

    According to Marca, the only possible way out of Atletico for Saur at the moment is Saudi Arabia, but Saur did not receive any offers that met his expectations last summer.