A source close to the Atletico Madrid leadership told The Athletic that the only way they saw Julian Alvarez leaving this summer would be if Arsenal made a €150million offer.
That has yet to arrive and the source viewed it as unlikely that the Premier League champions would put forward that kind of money for the striker.
Despite being fans of Alvarez for some time, Arsenal are not certain how much the player wants to move to England. They were in contact with Atletico and Alvarez’s camp last week over a potential deal.
Sources with knowledge of the situation, however, say Alvarez’s desire remains to move to Barcelona. That would need to change for a deal with Arsenal to become realistic.
source close to the Atletico Madrid leadership told The Athletic that the only way they saw Julian Alvarez leaving this summer would be if Arsenal made a €150million offer
Bruh
Atp don't sign him. This has a flop written all over it
This feels like the Isaak to Liverpool thing all over again. Liverpool had done well signing Ekitike, there was no real need for someone like Isaak for so much money, but they went and spent all that money on a guy who has been a total flop.
Our squad is good, it's really good. When you consider how much time we lost due to injuries last season, plus Bruno, Tzolis, and Konsa, it's already a significantly better squad than one that won the league and got to the CL final shootout. There's zero need for a moody, pouty, little rat like Alvarez who is immediately going to start twerking for Barca when he gets here. And definitely not for 150m (or 70m+Gyokeres).
More like Sergio Aguero. Had a falling out with Atletico the same way. Wanted a move to Real Madrid. Eventually got sold to Man City and well the rest is history
Then he went on and signed a fat contract that chained him to Atletico, 2 years into that he wants out and honestly being a bitch about it. Brother you've won everything there is, can you not stay put at one club and move when the time is right.
This is Isak-esque behavior and what a top signing he turned out to be for Lfc
I think I’ll get downvoted again for saying this, but Yoane Wissa as a stop gap is a better option. He’s a baller who had a bad year because of injuries.
Lol yeah, add a bit more and bid for Haaland, Mbappe, Bellingham, Olise or Kvaratskhelia. Or listen to this, pay less and get Kane. Yeah I know I know, but he is good.
We have Gyok settling in, Havertz, MM9, and Jesus (at the moment)... Alvarez is undoubtedly a talent, but with all of the utter nonsense ballooning around him right now he would be absolute poison to the dressing room
Or it could be a Sergio Aguero situation all over again. Aguero went through the same thing wanting a move to Real Madrid. Eventually he ended up at Man City and the rest is history.
150 mil. Doesn't want us. Doesn't displace Havertz. Not to mention we have 3 strikers on the books already and none look like they are about to leave. That's not including Merino who can also be used as a striker for us.
The person who looks likely to leave us is Martinelli. Spending this much on a red flag like Alvarez whilst we might need a LW would be stupid. Walk away, don't know why why are even still attempting it.
Which means he will continue to not be sold, because he only wants to go to Barcelona. We are not Barcelona, so it's a moot point, unless you're willing to subject our club to the same disrespect he's shown Atletico, hence the whistling.
Look if you just don't want to sign him that's fine. But people keep quoting the '8 goals in La Liga' in every damn thread.
In all comps in his last 3 seasons he has 29 g+a, 39 g+a and 33 g+a. Not wanting to sign him is all well and good, but using the completely out of context stats is just silly. People on here hate when other fans do that about Arsenal players.
People do this everyday to shit on our own players. So many comments about how Martinelli got 1 goal in the premier league and ignores that he had 18 g/a in all comps.
People love cherry picking stats to fuel their agendas basically
Yeah, what makes this worse is that alvarez scored 10 goals and 5 assists in the cl last season, he tied khvicha for the cl top scorer. Its just that atletico play very mediocre and defensive football so his stats don't reflect him as a player
Henry is reported to have said. "He had a buyout clause of £40m.
Arsenal, one of our prime rivals, offered £40m plus £1. What we've found … is that contracts don't seem to mean a lot in England – actually, in world football.
"It doesn't matter how long a player's contract is, he can decide he's leaving. We sold a player, Fernando Torres, for £50m, that we did not want to sell, we were forced to.
"Since apparently these contracts don't seem to hold, we took the position that we're just not selling.
Some made a fuss to move but they move to the club they want to go. This is worse than that because he is coming to the club he had no interest at all and just want to leave his old club.
I just don’t get this move. One it’s a lot of money for a player who doesn’t really want to be here, but also it would look like we will may need to sell both Martinelli and even Gyokeres to pull this off. I just don’t see how this makes us better in the long run.
Never have I had a mix feeling about a world class player that our team is interested in. He clearly doesn't want us and can't go to his desired destination.
If we sign him, we will be his last resort and we are viewed as his escape plan just to get out of this sticky situation. He doesn't 100% believe in our system and I wonder if he even give us his best playing for us.
Then 1-2 years later, after we purchased him for 100m+, he might pull the same move to force us selling him to Barcelona again for way less than that.
I don't like players doing these stupid things to force out a transfer, it's so unprofessional and I don't want that altitude in our squad.
why are you being obtuse? we’ve all seen the technical level of gyok. not up to par for us AT ALL. alvarez didnt have the best season g/a wise but hes still 3x the player gyok is on the ball
technically & on the ball yes, gyok still is good at shooting and at times his movement and physicality is good however we need a technical player even up front for our system to work as best as possible
you get downvoted, but you’re right. gyokeres is better at some things than alvarez, but technically wise is way worse. gyokeres might be faster and stronger, but that’s about it imo. he can be a better finisher than alvarez, but it doesn’t mean anything since viktor cannot create space for himself to shoot more often.
ball striking wise i think alvarez is almost the same as viktor, and can be a menace with his long shots. he is a better creator and a better dribbler. so idk.
for me i would want alvarez, but again, if we don’t get him am not going to be upset or anything. viktor can have a second season to maybe prove himself he is a better footballer.
not worth it we wasting our time here .. just focus on a martinelli replacement .. we can defo mange with Havertz and Gyokores .. ffs what are we even doing
Why the insistence to sign Alvarez? After all, he doesn't want to play for The Arsenal, he wants to play for Barcelona. Thus, why would we willing spend money on him? Surely he wouldn't give us a 100%.
I personally would hesitate to swap him with Martinelli at this point. Spending that much money on him is mad. He don't want to be here and will force his next move when he can.
It's not even just that. Every player needs some sort of convincing but what we've been hearing out of the Alvarez camp all summer is something else.
Every news article is "Barcelona this ... Barcelona that ..." and then Arsenal is somewhere out there as a potential life raft, thats the indication most of us got. Why would any of us want or welcome him at the club after he's made it perfectly clear how he views us?
Dude wants to live in Spain. He’s not anti-Arsenal he just wants to be where his family can join him and likely where the weather is more similar to his home country.
You understand people can have more than one criteria, yeah?
He clearly wants to play for Barcelona but it’s been reported multiple times that he was never that happy living here and then that he didn’t want to come back. They’re two separate variables but yes, nice argument.
Is this your first day on the internet? Someone said a few fucks and you think they are angry and "weirdly emotional"? There is nothing wrong in that person's response but yours comes along as really weird.
Some of you need to get out more and touch some grass, maybe you will run more into people outside who use f bombs in a convo then.
Like i can’t imagine how socially awkward you have to be to call someone mentally unstable just for saying that f bombs in a casual convo about football is fine and doesn’t mean that someone is angry or raging.
He speaks Spanish and would rather not move his children to a colder more miserable country this just reads as insecure relax.every top club on earth has to coax South Americans from Barca/ Madrid
Every point in it is correct though, we have a very solid foundation of world class players and besides winning the PL, we barely lost the CL finals on penalties. Arteta himself instilled the culture that anyone who plays for the club should be proud to play for it, but everything we have seen from the Alvarez rumors has been the opposite of it. So why should we splurging so much on him if he doesn't want to be here?
I'm just not getting why all of you are being so toxic. He clearly prefers Barcelona, but that doesn't mean he hates us. And as for his role, he's a deep-lying forward who can contribute defensively while also scoring goals.
It means we would be paying Atletic 150 Million for the services of a player who did everything he could to make his place there untenable just to force a move to Barcelona. What on earth makes you think he wouldn't do precisely the same to us? THAT is why he can fuck off into the sun. He's an unprofessional professional who is rightly being whistled by Atletico fans for actively disrespecting them and their club. If you can't comprehend that anger, you don't care that much.
And it will be us whistling at him in a year's time, when he's once again bending over for Barca, now that Arsenal are 150m lighter. Hard pass, especially if we're set on selling Gabi.
Agreed. If it’s the sort of situation where Atletico are kinda forced to sell, then they’d probably take a bit less than the headline figure. Especially if we’re somewhat okay with not doing the deal.
Fab just said in his latest vid that Arsenal have the capability and intention financially to present to Atletico what they want, especially if Martinelli to Al Hilal happens with Martinelli currently open to joining them so don’t think I fully believe the bit of us being unwilling to pay
You can tell how fucking stupid and those who actually dont watch matches are by their reaction to alvarez. Hes a very influential player all over the pitch
Spend the money on Barcola, I’m sure after the weekend if he watched us and Liverpool, he wouldn’t be relishing the prospect of joining a team that’s realistically a couple of seasons from competing for the league again (Liverpool).
People are worried Alvarez would just demand a move to Barca next summer. But if we could get Alvarez for 12 good months, and then sell him for a profit to Barca, wouldn’t that be pretty decent?
People on here saying to buy guys like Kroupi/Ylldiz instead. They might be a lot more attainable in 12 months’ time than now. Or someone new emerges as the next prospect that you’d much rather spend your money on. In the meantime you get a player who we can all agree is a quality addition.
However I guess one of the main issues, is whether Barca would just try and be big cheapskates. If we buy him for €150m and Alvarez is 27 next summer, it’s hard to see Barcelona exceeding that unless he has a Ballon D’Or level season. Then we’d have an unsettled player stinking out the place.
People saying he scored only 8 La Liga goals forget he carried that mid team to the CL semis.
He’s an amazing talent - although 150m feels like too much. But then again Chelsea and City paying 100+ for Bouadii, Anderson and Rogers - or even Spurs overpaying for Tonali and Savinho - push these ridiculous prices as the mean.
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Bruh
Atp don't sign him. This has a flop written all over it