Diego Simeone has revealed he turned down a fortune to stay with Atletico Madrid.

The coach recalled his feelings after losing the Champions League final to Real Madrid at the San Siro in May 2016.

"I got to the press room and had to go through the area where Real Madrid were celebrating and I felt a lot of pain, and I started to think that this was going to be a difficult year and it would be hard to motivate my players again," he told AS.

"I said what I felt, that I needed to think about it. Is that so bad? You have to remember if I wanted to go to another team I would have had 35 million reasons. 35 million! But I didn't leave because I didn't want to."