“Sport”<\/a>, the conversation with Simeone did not go the way the player had hoped. \u00c1lvarez wants to leave the Madrid club for Barcelona this summer.<\/p>\nRead also<\/p>\n
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Simeone simply reaffirmed Atl\u00e9tico Madrid’s decision not to sell. He refused to listen to the arguments \u00c1lvarez put forward, and the response left both the striker and those around him deeply annoyed.<\/p>\n
The player had seen Simeone, who worked hard to bring him to Atl\u00e9tico, as a potential route to persuading the board to let him go. That was down to the strong relationship the two had built since \u00c1lvarez arrived at the club.<\/p>\n
Frustration was written all over \u00c1lvarez as he walked out of the brief conversation. Simeone had done nothing more than confirm he would count on him during the season and do everything in his power to help him develop, according to “Sport”.<\/p>\n
By the same account, the coach showed little interest in how the player feels. \u00c1lvarez is under mounting pressure over his situation, with time slipping by and no sign of negotiations opening with Barcelona.<\/p>\n
As far as the player is concerned, Simeone is not handling this properly. \u00c1lvarez put his faith in the coach and his sporting project, turning his back on other options to leave England for Atl\u00e9tico.<\/p>\n
An anticipated escalation<\/p>\n
There had been, in the eyes of the player and those around him, a kind of commitment to let him leave should a suitable offer land at the Madrid club.<\/p>\n
That trust began to crumble once the coach threw his weight fully behind the club during the current crisis. The player and his camp reckon Simeone “washed his hands of the matter” and chose to look the other way.<\/p>\n
This route now appears completely shut, and that will push \u00c1lvarez and those around him to take the matter to higher levels. According to the Catalan newspaper, the striker will not abandon his desire to join Barcelona and will keep pressing to get his wish.<\/p>\n
Should Simeone refuse to respond to his demands, the player will wait for the return of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid’s chief executive, Miguel \u00c1ngel Gil Mar\u00edn, and seek a direct meeting with him.<\/p>\n
\u00c1lvarez and his camp insist Gil Mar\u00edn promised to smooth his exit this summer. They now believe he has gone back on those promises and would rather keep the player at any cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez crisis is escalating fast. The Argentine striker spoke with his coach Diego Simeone in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18165,179,92,23952,7853,871,6458,2457,17415,1147],"class_list":["post-69705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-al-ahly-sc","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-barcelona","tag-club-friendlies","tag-d-simeone","tag-elche","tag-j-alvarez","tag-malaga","tag-marseille","tag-villarreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69705","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=69705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}