{"id":820761,"date":"2026-08-21T07:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820761\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:34:10","slug":"atletico-madrid-agree-to-sell-julian-alvarez-to-arsenal-but-striker-says-no-with-barcelona-dream-move-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820761\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid AGREE to sell Julian Alvarez to Arsenal but striker says NO with Barcelona &#8216;dream&#8217; move in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">Officially, Alvarez was left out of the squad due to a lack of match fitness following his exploits with Argentina, where he reached the World Cup final. Simeone explained the omission, saying: &#8220;We don&#8217;t believe Julian Alvarez is in the right condition to play or take part for tomorrow&#8217;s game. Hopefully, over these next four days, he&#8217;ll make further progress and we&#8217;ll be closer to where we want him to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">However, the timing of the omission alongside the reports of an agreement with Arsenal has raised eyebrows across Europe. Despite the manager&#8217;s public optimism about building a strong squad, the reality is that the Argentine\u2019s future remains the biggest cloud over the club. With the deadline looming, Atletico must decide whether to force the Arsenal move, give in to Barcelona&#8217;s interest, or somehow reintegrate a player who has clearly set his heart on a future away from Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officially, Alvarez was left out of the squad due to a lack of match fitness following his exploits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[463,7867,418,132996,16952,1084,403,99,6641],"class_list":["post-820761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-barcelona","tag-j-alvarez","tag-laliga","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820761","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=820761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}