{"id":68410,"date":"2026-08-09T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/68410\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:23:25","slug":"the-hour-of-truth-and-barcelona-a-decisive-week-in-alvarezs-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/68410\/","title":{"rendered":"The hour of truth and Barcelona: a decisive week in \u00c1lvarez&#8217;s fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine striker Julian Alvarez rejoins pre-season training with Atletico Madrid today, Monday, hoping to force Atleti into opening the door to negotiations over his transfer to Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The striker had publicly declared his desire to move to Barcelona during the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/julian-alvarez-pasa-accion-133216021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sport newspaper<\/a>, there has been nothing but noise since. Atletico&#8217;s only official response to Barcelona&#8217;s offer was a complaint to FIFA and the Spanish federation, alleging that they had negotiated with a player under a running contract during the protected period.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Miguel Angel Gil Marin and president Enrique Cerezo both weighed in, stressing clearly that they would not let Julian leave this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Diego Simeone closed the week with a blunt verdict. &#8220;The situation is clear, the club has taken a decision,&#8221; said the Atleti coach.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona, meanwhile, responded to Alvarez&#8217;s move by lodging their first offer and going public with their interest. In recent weeks, they have gone quiet.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan club know the deal is extremely difficult, so they have handled every step with the utmost precision.<\/p>\n<p>Deco travelled to Madrid to meet the striker&#8217;s agent, and journalists from Sport and Jijantes caught wind of the meeting. Beyond that visit, though, the club had no wish to trade arguments or statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentine striker Julian Alvarez rejoins pre-season training with Atletico Madrid today, Monday, hoping to force Atleti into opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[179,92,418,6458,85],"class_list":["post-68410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-barcelona","tag-features","tag-j-alvarez","tag-laliga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68410","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=68410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}