Atletico Madrid’s Julian Alvarez celebrates scoring their second aim in opposition to Actual Sociedad throughout Copa del Rey closing at Estadio de La Cartuja, Seville, Spain, April 18, 2026. — ReutersÂ
Atletico Madrid won’t enable ahead Julian Alvarez to go away the membership in the course of the present switch window regardless of curiosity from Barcelona, coach Diego Simeone mentioned on Saturday.
Final month, Atletico filed a grievance to Fifa over Barcelona allegedly tapping up Alvarez.
The Argentina worldwide has additionally been linked with a attainable transfer to Premier League champions Arsenal and was the topic of a rejected 150-million-euro ($173.4m) bid from Actual Madrid in June.
“I think the situation is very clear. The club has made a decision that (CEO) Miguel Angel (Gil Marin) has explained very well,” Simeone advised reporters forward of a pre-season pleasant in opposition to Manchester Metropolis in Seoul.
“From a sporting perspective, we’re very happy to have a footballer like Julian…
“We’ll assist him proceed to develop, proceed to enhance and proceed delivering the very best — which has been an amazing quantity — that he has given us during the last two years.”
Alvarez is due to rejoin the Atletico squad in two days’ time after taking a break following Argentina’s World Cup final loss to Spain.
While on World Cup duty, the 26-year-old said he “believed a switch is greatest for everybody”, but did not confirm his preferred destination.
Alvarez has scored 49 goals for Atletico since signing from Manchester City two years ago.
“We do not need to switch him. We did not settle for the 100-million-euro supply, nor will we settle for one for 150 million or 200 million,” Gil Marin told the club’s in-house media channel.
“I’ve little question that Atletico is the precise place for Julian and that Julian is the centre-forward for Atletico Madrid. We need to hold him.”
When asked about how Alvarez might be received by Atletico fans following the transfer speculation, Simeone pointed to Antoine Griezmann.
The Frenchman made a big-money move to Barcelona before returning to Atletico.
He was initially met with some hostility, but won the supporters back over and departed last season a club legend.
“We went by a interval with Antoine lately the place he needed to depart, come again, and show his high quality and stature on the pitch,” said Simeone.
“I see no different path than specializing in the sporting facet of issues, doing our half and serving to him (Alvarez), simply as we have now carried out over the previous few years.”
Atletico get their La Liga marketing campaign underway on August 19 with a house match in opposition to newly-promoted Malaga.
The capital membership completed fourth final season, 25 factors adrift of champions Barcelona.
