{"id":23341,"date":"2026-05-14T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/23341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:35:08","slug":"barcelona-discover-cost-of-signing-julian-alvarez-from-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/23341\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona discover cost of signing Julian Alvarez from Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are beginning to realise the true scale of the challenge involved in signing Julian Alvarez from Atletico Madrid this summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to journalist Matteo Moretto in an update for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/radio\/2026\/05\/14\/matteo-moretto-avisa-sobre-vlahovic-sido-ofrecido-grande-espana-atletico.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">MARCA<\/a>, any potential operation involving the Argentine striker would cost between \u20ac100 million and \u20ac130 million, making the deal one of the most financially demanding transfers on the market.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist further states that Atletico Madrid have absolutely no intention of selling one of the key figures in Diego Simeone\u2019s project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they continue to view Alvarez as untouchable and are already working towards extending his current contract.<\/p>\n<p>There are more problems<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps even more problematic for Barcelona in this pursuit is the player\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez is reportedly very happy in Madrid, fully settled at Atletico and not currently pushing for a transfer away from the club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest information, if the Argentine ever wanted to leave, he would first need to communicate that desire directly to Atletico\u2019s hierarchy, something that has not happened so far.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist also reveals that no club has officially contacted Atletico Madrid regarding the striker yet, despite growing interest from across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona and PSG are interested<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/atletico-de-madrid-v-arsenal-fc-uefa-champions-league-2025-26-semi-final-first-leg-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Julian Alvarez, Atletico Madrid player\" class=\"wp-image-198481\"  \/>Julian Alvarez is happy at Atletico Madrid. (Photo by Angel Martinez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>In that context, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain are both closely monitoring the situation, but Atletico\u2019s valuation is already making the operation look extremely complicated for any potential buyer.<\/p>\n<p>For Barcelona specifically, the numbers involved represent a major obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan club have identified Alvarez as one of their absolute priority targets, but their financial limitations make a deal of this magnitude extremely difficult to execute.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the latest valuation emerged, there was already an understanding that convincing Atletico Madrid to negotiate<a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-realise-painful-truth-about-julian-alvarez-transfer-pursuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0would<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/barcelona-realise-painful-truth-about-julian-alvarez-transfer-pursuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> not be easy<\/a>. That feeling is now becoming even stronger.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Barcelona are also facing another major problem in the race: PSG.<\/p>\n<p>The French champions are financially far stronger than Bar\u00e7a and are reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/psg-ready-to-offer-more-than-e100-million-for-barcelona-priority-target-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">prepared to invest over \u20ac100 million<\/a> if they decide to push seriously for the striker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, Atletico Madrid remain calm, believing that they are in complete control of the situation because the player is happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona are beginning to realise the true scale of the challenge involved in signing Julian Alvarez from Atletico&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[92,222,223,674,82,1498],"class_list":{"0":"post-23341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-barcelona-news","10":"tag-fc-barcelona","11":"tag-julian-alvarez","12":"tag-madrid","13":"tag-psg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}