{"id":754043,"date":"2026-06-23T01:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754043\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T01:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:37:10","slug":"julian-alvarez-sparks-transfer-frenzy-by-telling-atletico-madrid-he-wants-to-leave-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754043\/","title":{"rendered":"Juli\u00e1n Alvarez sparks transfer frenzy by telling Atl\u00e9tico Madrid he wants to leave | Atl\u00e9tico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Juli\u00e1n Alvarez has said he wants to \u2060leave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/atleticomadrid\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> to \u201cfulfil his dream\u201d following reported interest from Barcelona, Real Madrid \u2060and Paris Saint-\u2060Germain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI \u200bspoke with people at the club [Atl\u00e9tico], with those I had to speak with, \u2060and the best thing for everyone is a transfer and I want to fulfil \u2060my dream,\u201d Alvarez said after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/22\/argentina-austria-world-cup-group-j-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina\u2019s World Cup Group \u200bJ win over Austria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt\u2019s \u200cnot the time \u200cto talk about this, but I also can\u2019t \u200chide it. I try to be an honest person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Weeks earlier, Atl\u00e9tico rejected a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/09\/atletico-madrid-reject-129m-bid-from-real-madrid-for-julian-alvarez\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u20ac150m (\u00a3129.4m) offer from Real Madrid<\/a> for the 26-year-old forward, according to media reports. Spanish and Argentinian media have \u200calso reported interest in the player\u2019s services from Barcelona and PSG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Alvarez, who joined the \u200bLa Liga club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/article\/2024\/aug\/06\/manchester-city-agree-to-sell-julian-alvarez-to-atletico-madrid\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from Manchester City in 2024<\/a> in a deal worth up to \u20ac95m (\u00a381.5m), said his future remains undecided. \u201cIt\u2019s not \u2060known when it will be resolved,\u201d he told \u200breporters at \u200bDallas Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Reuters has \u200bcontacted Atl\u00e9tico for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The striker has been \u200brecovering from \u200can ankle \u200binjury and \u200bhas come off the bench in both of Argentina\u2019s matches at the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juli\u00e1n Alvarez has said he wants to \u2060leave Atl\u00e9tico Madrid to \u201cfulfil his dream\u201d following reported interest from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-754043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}