{"id":802955,"date":"2026-08-05T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802955\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:00:14","slug":"barcelona-sporting-director-deco-travels-to-madrid-for-crunch-talks-for-julian-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802955\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona sporting director Deco travels to Madrid for crunch talks for Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barcelona have still not given up on a deal for Atl\u00e9tico Madrid striker Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, and a key meeting is set to take place soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to Gerard Romero of Jijantes, Bar\u00e7a sporting director Deco travelled to Madrid late on Tuesday to meet with \u00c1lvarez\u2019s agent, Fernando Hidalgo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The meeting will serve to define the strategy between the two parties to finally convince Atl\u00e9tico to negotiate. Bar\u00e7a are willing to up their initial offer of \u20ac100 million, and the club is also counting on Juli\u00e1n to make another public gesture after his public transfer request six weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Atl\u00e9tico remain adamant they will not sell, but Juli\u00e1n has already informed the Colchoneros in multiple occasions that he wants to join the Catalans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hansi Flick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/fc-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news\/128112\/we-know-we-have-to-do-something-hansi-flick-talks-barcelona-search-for-a-striker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reiterated on Monday<\/a> that he would like Bar\u00e7a to sign a striker and has \u201ccomplete confidence\u201d in Deco to get a deal over the line, and the sporting director has taken action to try and pull off a dream signing for the Blaugrana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona have still not given up on a deal for Atl\u00e9tico Madrid striker Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, and a key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[49043,403,99],"class_list":["post-802955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}