{"id":76299,"date":"2026-08-26T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/76299\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:37:08","slug":"not-about-money-its-about-dignity-atletico-reject-barcelonas-e100m-julian-alvarez-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/76299\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not About Money, It&#8217;s About Dignity\u2019: Atletico Reject Barcelona&#8217;s \u20ac100m Julian Alvarez Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meknes \u2013 Atletico Madrid have firmly ruled out selling Julian Alvarez to Barcelona, insisting there is a \u201c0% chance\u201d of a deal despite Barca president Joan Laporta publicly confirming his club\u2019s continued interest in the striker.<\/p>\n<p>Following weeks of transfer speculations, Alvarez sat out Wednesday\u2019s training session after facing backlash from Atletico fans, who booed the 26-year-old during Sunday\u2019s draw against Villarreal.<\/p>\n<p>Although reports attributed Alvarez\u2019s absence from training to illness, Atletico strongly criticized a new video featuring Joan Laporta, in which the Barcelona president confirmed their \u20ac100m bid remains\u00a0 valid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still very interested in Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez. We hope that our offer will be accepted,\u201d Laporta <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/a2FfYHrdB3c?si=ji-ijGahLF_GhYJO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told <\/a>Barcelona\u2019s official media channels on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt goes without saying that Barcelona absolutely respects Atl\u00e9tico and the club\u2019s directorate, who we have known for many years and have a lot of appreciation for,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid responded to Laporta\u2019s public push, by issuing a fiery statement shutting down any possibility of a deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about money, it\u2019s about dignity. The player is being victimised, but the only victim in the Julian case is us,\u201d Atletico <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/futbol\/atletico\/2026\/08\/26\/atletico-explota-unica-victima-caso-julian-somo-nosotros.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have harmed us economically and socially. There is 0% chance of selling him to Barca,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>This latest exchange follows weeks of tension between the two La Liga rivals, with the Alvarez situation increasingly playing out in public.<\/p>\n<p>Starting as a substitute on Sunday, Alvarez faced immediate hostile pushback from fans who jeered his warm-up and booed heavily as he stepped onto the field in the 66th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez then headed straight down the tunnel at the final whistle instead of joining his teammates in greeting the crowd. Diego Simeone later revealed it was a club-directed decision to protect the striker from further hostility.<\/p>\n<p>With the transfer deadline approaching, the public war of words shows no sign of slowing down,keeping the Argentina international at the center of the window\u2019s main talking point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meknes \u2013 Atletico Madrid have firmly ruled out selling Julian Alvarez to Barcelona, insisting there is a \u201c0%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[179,92,223,1025,674],"class_list":["post-76299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-barcelona","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-joan-laporta","tag-julian-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76299","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=76299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}