Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone says the future of Joao Felix is up to the player and his agent.

Simeone has frozen out Felix from senior training in preseason.

But the coach told AS: "The big focus is the team. It is normal that in the press and whether he stays or leaves, he generates a focus. I already said that there is no one more important than the club, but no one. Before that clearer, impossible.

"He has his playing characteristics, he gave his all, he has made an effort to work well with what he has and what we demanded of him. I cannot have any claim to what he gave because it is what he could give.

"He has extraordinary conditions, we have talked about it a billion times. You see him and he has a good header, a good shot with the left, with the right, good spin, one on one… Time? It's not up to me, ask him and his representative."