“We told Barça from the start that we wanted to continue with Julian, and that’s what happened. He is a player who belongs to us and a very important part of our team. We wish he was with us. He is going to have a magnificent season with us. What we want at Atlético is to win La Liga and we will fight for that.”. Once again, Atlético president Enrique Cerezo has been very clear regarding Julian Alvarez.
On the FC Barcelona side, we also understood that Julian Alvarez was not going to wear the Blaugrana tunic this season. For several days now, the Catalan media have been multiplying articles on alternatives to the Argentinian, while the possibility of playing players like Raphinha or Anthony Gordon in false number 9 has also been mentioned. And now several media outlets have just revealed a little bombshell.
The new priority
There Cadena COPE thus indicates that Barça has indeed given up on the matter for the Atlético striker, and that the Catalans have a new priority: Lautaro Martinez (Inter). He has become the club’s number 1 objective for the end of the transfer window, even if Deco and his men are aware that it will be difficult to snatch him from the Milanese. There Cadena SERanother Spanish radio station, confirms that Martinez is the club’s top priority from now on.
An operation which therefore necessarily promises to be complicated for FC Barcelona, even if we know that the Catalans have a nice small sum of money available to enlist their future attacker, despite the arrivals of players like Anthony Gordon, Rodri and Karim Adeyemi for a little more than 170 million euros. Under contract at Inter until 2029, the world champion until 2029 would not be against signing for FC Barcelona. Sky Italia nevertheless specifies that Inter considers its star as non-transferable…
