{"id":872354,"date":"2026-08-26T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872354\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:28:10","slug":"julian-alvarez-lies-and-half-truths-atletico-madrid-hit-back-at-barcelona-over-transfer-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872354\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Alvarez: ‘Lies and half-truths’ – Atletico Madrid hit back at Barcelona over transfer saga"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first offer on the table came from Barcelona in May, with reports suggesting the club had opened talks to sign Alvarez.<\/p>\n

But in what seems to be a recurrent pattern, Atletico were absolutely adamant that they would not sell Alvarez to Barcelona.<\/p>\n

In May, they made a series of social media posts brutally mocking Barca’s pursuit of their player to millions of followers, saying they were victims of a “smear campaign”.<\/p>\n

Alvarez went to the World Cup with Argentina with his future already a major talking point.<\/p>\n

Then, in June, in came another big offer from Atleti’s city rivals, Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

Los Blancos made a \u20ac150m (\u00a3130m) offer<\/a> for Alvarez after president Florentino Perez promised supporters that he would make a \u20ac150m bid for an unnamed “Galactico” if re-elected.<\/p>\n

The offer was rejected by Atletico, with Real Madrid pointing to Alvarez’s \u20ac500m (\u00a3430m) release clause and saying Atletico had “expressed its gratitude for the proposal”.<\/p>\n

Again, Atleti responded with humorous social media posts, denying any gratitude and remaining adamant that Alvarez would not be sold to Barcelona.<\/p>\n

After Argentina’s win over Austria in June, Alvarez told media that he had spoken to Atletico and he said that “the best thing for everyone is a transfer”, adding: “I want to fulfil my dream”.<\/p>\n

Those comments effectively confirmed that, despite Atletico’s insistence that he was not for sale, the player himself was open to leaving<\/a> and Barcelona and Paris St-Germain were among the clubs reportedly interested.<\/p>\n

Barcelona’s interest in Alvarez was driven by their need for a long-term successor to Robert Lewandowski, who left the club this summer.<\/p>\n

But Atletico maintained they did not want to sell Alvarez, with chief executive Miguel Angel Gil Marin saying the club would not sell him “even for 200m euros (\u00a3170.8m)”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first offer on the table came from Barcelona in May, with reports suggesting the club had opened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-872354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}