Real Madrid have confirmed that they submitted a €150 million offer to Atlético Madrid for Argentina forward Julián Álvarez. Atlético rejected the proposal and referred Real Madrid to the player’s release clause.
In an official statement, Real Madrid announced that its board of directors had approved a formal offer for Álvarez.
“Real Madrid C.F. announces that, following today’s Board of Directors meeting, it has submitted an offer of €150 million to Club Atlético de Madrid for the federative rights of player Julián Álvarez.”
Atlético Madrid responded with a statement of its own.
“After studying and evaluating it, Club Atlético de Madrid has thanked Real Madrid for the offer made, within the framework of the good relations between both clubs, and has rejected it, referring to the player’s release clause.”
Atlético’s position has been consistent for months. The club does not intend to negotiate a transfer below Álvarez’s release clause, which is reported to be more than €500 million.
Although the official statements were formal, Atlético later responded on social media with a post titled “Official clarification regarding our neighbors’ official statement.”
In the post, Atlético said it had not studied or evaluated any offer for Álvarez and disputed Real Madrid’s suggestion that the club had expressed gratitude for the proposal. The post ended with a joke aimed at Real Madrid and Barcelona.
The situation leaves Real Madrid with a decision to make if they wish to continue pursuing the Argentine striker. Any future offer would likely need to be significantly higher to open negotiations.
For now, Álvarez remains focused on Argentina’s World Cup campaign while discussions take place between the clubs and his representatives.
I noticed something – in Argentina’s group 3 out of 4 teams are ranked within top 30. Argentina – rank 1, Austria – rank 24, Algeria – rank 28. So I decided to check how many more groups have this feature. Only 3/12 groups have this feature, and the count goes upto 4/12 if we include Norway’s group(Norway is ranked 31 and many feel that the ranking should go up a bit higher if Norway play more games). Those groups are Group D(USA-17, Turkiye-22, Australia-27), Group G(Belgium-9, Iran-20, Egypt-29). And the Norway group is Group I(France-3, Senegal-15, Norway-31).
So Argentina are in a tough group. The thing that makes me less nervous is that 8/12 3rd place finishers will also move on to the next round.
BTW, has anyone done the maths on Argentina’s likely road/opponents to the finals based on whether Argentina finshes 1st, 2nd or 3rd?
Alvarez is one of my favourites. He deserves all 500 million. Or at the very least he deserves 200 million.
Of course, not everything can be measured with simple stats, but even if we go by stats his contribution of 10 goals and 5 assists is literally one of the 4 best in the champions league along with Mpabbe, Khvisha and Harry Kane. And Julian Alvarez plays for the least decorated club among those 4.
I meant Mbappe. I just noticed the wrong spelling.
Anyone know a free streaming link for today’s game against Iceland? Thanks in advance!
I would like a link too.
It’s storming bad in alabama. Let’s hope it lets up so the match doesn’t get cancelled tonight
Real Madrid don’t really want to sign Alvarez; they just want to inflate his value by offering this huge amount. This strategy forces Barcelona to either abandon their pursuit of Alvarez or break the bank for him, which would financially affect them severely in the future. This is Madrid’s strategy.
This.