Barcelona have been fined 602 euros (\u00a3503) following a complaint by Atletico Madrid over contact the club made with striker Julian Alvarez.<\/p>\n
Atletico accused La Liga rivals Barcelona of approaching Argentina international Alvarez without first notifying them in writing.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old remained at Atletico and has a contract which runs until June 2030. <\/p>\n
The fine was issued by the Spanish football association. Atletico also complained to Fifa, but football’s governing body declared it had no jurisdiction over the case.<\/p>\n
Alvarez has frequently been booed by his own supporters this season but received a standing ovation from some after he scored the winning goal against Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Following that victory, which took Diego Simeone’s side within two points of leaders Barcelona, Alvarez took the opportunity to apologise to Atletico’s fans.<\/p>\n
Referring to an interview he gave during the summer in which he said he wanted to “fulfil his dream” of playing for Barcelona, Alvarez said: “It was a mistake. I understand why the fans are angry. <\/p>\n
“If I were a fan, I’d be angry too. Especially given how they’ve supported me since I arrived.”<\/p>\n
Alvarez joined Atletico Madrid from Manchester City on a six-year deal in a move worth up to \u00a381.5m in August 2024.<\/p>\n
After scoring 36 goals in 103 appearances for City, he has found the net 51 times in 115 games for Atletico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona have been fined 602 euros (\u00a3503) following a complaint by Atletico Madrid over contact the club made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-897051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897051","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=897051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}