{"id":29640,"date":"2026-05-26T06:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/29640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:42:18","slug":"barcelona-may-have-to-pay-e150m-for-julian-alvarez-as-atletico-madrid-set-terms-for-potential-summer-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/29640\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona may have to pay \u20ac150m for Julian Alvarez as Atletico Madrid set terms for potential summer exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona may have to fork out \u20ac150 million if they want to sign primary target Julian Alvarez from Atletico Madrid this summer, Mundo Deportivo<\/a> reports. Barcelona are on the market for a long-term Robert Lewandowski<\/a> replacement, and Alvarez is one of a few big names on their summer shortlist. However, Barcelona have been told it will take an earth-shattering proposal to lure him away from the Metropolitano Stadium this summer. After successfully retaining the La Liga title, Barcelona have turned their attention to the summer market in search of a player who can lead the line for the foreseeable future. Alvarez checks that box for the Blaugranas, but stumping up the fee will be a huge problem considering Barcelona\u2019s well-documented financial woes. Interestingly, that hasn\u2019t stopped them from plotting one of the biggest coups in recent times. Atletico were previously uninterested in even entertaining conversations about a potential exit for Alvarez. But they\u2019ve become more amenable in recent weeks. Manager Diego Simeone has been pushing the club to do everything in their power to keep Alvarez, who produced 20 goals and nine assists in 49 games during the season. \u201cA very important player, the best we have,\u201d Simeone said when asked about Alvarez months ago. \u201cLet\u2019s hope he gives us more in what lies ahead because we need him. Juli\u00e1n is the best footballer we have. We need to take care of him, so he stays here at Atleti for many years.\u201d However, his tone has changed recently, especially after reports began circulating that the 26-year-old World Cup winner wants to leave the club in search of a new adventure. \u201cIt\u2019s not a question for me, it\u2019s a question for Julian,\u201d Simeone said when asked about Alvarez\u2019s future again following the 5-1 defeat against Villarreal<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s old enough to know what he\u2019s going to do, and I imagine he\u2019s already made his decision.\u201d Atletico want Alvarez to decide on his future before the World Cup starts on June 11. It remains to be seen if Barcelona can pull off a transfer or if they\u2019ll be forced to look elsewhere, especially with Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal now in the mix<\/a>. They have also been linked with Bayern Munich<\/a>\u2019s Harry Kane<\/a> and Chelsea<\/a>\u2019s Joao<\/a> Pedro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona may have to fork out \u20ac150 million if they want to sign primary target Julian Alvarez from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[366,179,92,266,942,1455,14854,1686,14855,674,1819,935,1147],"class_list":["post-29640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-arsenal","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern-munich","tag-chelsea","tag-diego-simeone","tag-foreseeable-future","tag-harry-kane","tag-joao","tag-julian-alvarez","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-villarreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29640","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=29640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}