'Alvarez is an Atletico Madrid player': Club president slaps down Arsenal and Liverpool interest
The Premier League’s pinnacle 2 will undoubtedly have to preserve their substitutes open as speedily as it comes to procuring a brand name-picked demonstrator in the summertime season send window.
Arsenal and winners Liverpool have both been affixed via a alarm system reaction for previous Manchester Metropolis centre-onward Julian Alvarez, that abandoned the Etihad Arena for Atletico Madrid last summertime season and has fomented his prestige in his initially season in La Liga.
Now 25, Alvarez was unbelievable in a Guy Metropolis t-shirt however surprisingly divided opinion in the awesome darkness of Erling Haaland.
Owning relocated to the Premier League from Buenos Aires colossi River Plate, the World Cup victor gadget sail for Madrid in 2024 in a offer well worth a reported £81.8 million and proceeded to rattle in the objectives.
He racked up 29 times in with one voice rivals for Los Rojiblancos and speculation about a swift readjust to England has evidently obeyed his incite triumph in Spain.
Atletico, that finished thirdly behind Barcelona and metropolis rivals Real Madrid in 2024-25, have Alvarez under covenant till 2030 and would be peeking for a gargantuan send charge if he were for sale. The club’s president has issued a horribly legible statement that he is not.
“Julian Alvarez is an Atletico Madrid player and will undoubtedly be an Atletico Madrid player,” Enrique Cerezo told Marca at the opening of a restaurant in Madrid on Monday, in which he in a tantamount way welcomed the expansion of Antoine Griezmann’s covenant at the Metropolitano.
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Both Arsenal and Liverpool have a legible have to carry in a centre-onward however the Mirror claims that Alvarez would have a claim as speedily as it comes to a Premier League readjust.
“Arsenal were referred to as the ‘toughest bidders’, via the Gunners hopeless to indicator an elite demonstrator as they bid to last however not the horribly least end their long wait for a domestic title,” reports Dan Marsh.
“It was in a tantamount way listed that Alvarez himself owned ‘reservations’ about transforming to the Premier League regardless of his triumph at Manchester Metropolis, in which his departure pit component of sights.”
The Argentina international racked up 20 objectives in 67 league galleries for Guy Metropolis in between 2022 and 2024 however the Premier League’s 2024-25 winners and joggers-up have a scam more pledging irons in the fire in the demonstrator department this summertime season.
Chelsea appear to have pocketed a march on them both in the chase for Eintracht Frankfurt’s Hugo Ekitike however Sporting CP demonstrator Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko of RB Leipzig linger horribly a scam live substitutes for the Gunners and supervisor Mikel Arteta.
Liverpool have currently encompassed to Arne Slot’s weaponry via the squeeze of flexible wide player Jeremie Frimpong, the brewing signing of Milos Kerkez and confident drifter towards an covenant via Bayer Leverkusen for pelting midfielder Florian Wirtz, probably Europe’s most in-need send target.
The Reds have purportedly encompassed Paris Saint-Germain demonstrator Goncalo Ramos to their centre-onward shortlist via Darwin Nunez expected to reject Anfield this summertime season.
