{"id":878593,"date":"2026-08-31T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878593\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:02:11","slug":"arsenal-trying-to-lure-julian-alvarez-after-agreeing-deals-to-sell-martinelli-and-jesus-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878593\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal trying to lure Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez after agreeing deals to sell Martinelli and Jesus | Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal are running out of time to persuade Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez to join them from Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> after agreeing to sell Gabriel Martinelli, Gabriel Jesus and F\u00e1bio Vieira in deals collectively worth more than \u00a370m.<\/p>\n

\u00c1lvarez has his heart set on \u00adjoining Barcelona despite Atl\u00e9tico\u2019s \u00adinsistence they will not sell<\/a> to their La\u00a0Liga rivals \u2013 he returned to training on Sunday after being left out of their squad for the win against Sevilla. Mikel Arteta, the Arsenal manager, is understood to have \u00adspoken last week to \u00c1lvarez in an effort to persuade the former Manchester City forward to return to the Premier League and to have been informed the Argentina international wants only Barcelona.<\/p>\n

The Spanish champions have since agreed an \u00a38.6m deal to sign Jesus, who has entered the final year of his contract after falling down the \u00adpecking order behind Kai Havertz and Viktor Gy\u00f6keres. However, \u00adBarcelona would like to sign another attacker after selling Ferran Torres to Paris\u00a0Saint-Germain and are said to have not given up on \u00c1lvarez.<\/p>\n

Atl\u00e9tico have agreed a deal with Juventus for Jonathan David on an initial loan with an option to make the Canada forward\u2019s move permanent next summer. But they are understood to be determined to keep \u00c1lvarez, who joined from City in 2024.<\/p>\n

Arsenal remain hopeful the 26\u2011year\u2011old could change his mind but are believed to be monitoring several other attacking options. Everton\u2019s Iliman Ndiaye was among the players on their shortlist but Manchester City are in advanced talks over a \u00a365m deal for the Senegal forward. Arsenal missed out on Morgan \u00adRogers to Chelsea<\/a> and failed in an ambitious attempt to sign Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, the Brazil forward signing a contract extension<\/a> at Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal have signed Christos Tzolis<\/a> to replace Leandro Trossard on the left but Martinelli\u2019s expected departure to Al-Hilal for a club\u2011record \u00a356m sale would create a space in the squad, although Eberechi Eze is also capable of playing there. Martinelli, who scored six times in the Champions League last season but only once in the Premier League, is due to have his medical on Monday after being left out of Arsenal\u2019s squad against Coventry on the opening weekend. His fee surpasses the \u00a340m \u00adLiverpool paid Arsenal for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Vieira looks poised to join \u00adHamburg, where he was on loan last \u00adseason, for \u00a38.6m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal are running out of time to persuade Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez to join them from Atl\u00e9tico Madrid after agreeing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-878593","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\/878593","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=878593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}