Mundo Deportivo<\/a>“, Alemany settled the debate: “The essentials have been done, and our plan regarding arrivals and departures is complete. We are in a good position and we are at ease.” With those words he shut the door on any new signings, ending the dreams of fans who had been waiting for one last resounding deal.<\/p>\nA coded message to Alvarez<\/p>\n
The hottest issue did not escape him, namely the future of Argentine star Julian Alvarez after interest from Barcelona and Arsenal and his striking comments about wanting to leave.<\/p>\n
Firm and direct, Alemany’s response put an end to the rumours raised five or six months ago. “If he is called up, and he is ready to play, that makes any talk unnecessary, and it reminds everyone of the importance of their role,” he said.<\/p>\n
He went on to explain: “This topic has indeed been recurring, but what matters most is our current situation, where Julian has been called up and he is ready to play, and this makes everything clear and puts everyone in their correct place.” The message leaves no room for interpretation. Alvarez is staying. The pitch is the only arbiter.<\/p>\n
No room for excuses<\/p>\n
On the subject of objectives, Alemany raised the ceiling of ambitions, confirming that the completion of the project imposes competing on all fronts. “We cannot set any objective other than occupying the highest possible position in all competitions, while being aware of the difficulty of that,” he said. “We are a great club with a distinguished history, and we must aspire to compete for everything.”<\/p>\n
Praise for the new arrivals rounded off his remarks, along with full confidence in the choices of the club and the technical staff: “They joined us to help, and it is up to the coach to deploy them. I am satisfied with any starting line-up we choose. These players are here because the club and the coach wanted them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mateo Alemany, the sporting director of Atletico Madrid, has put an end to all the speculation. At a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[179,92,6458,82],"class_list":["post-74923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-barcelona","tag-j-alvarez","tag-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74923","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=74923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}