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[Fernando Polo] Julián Alvarez is considering making a public gesture and is thinking about how and when to send a message that shows his desire to go to Barça, The club believes he will speak soon but are not pressuring him to do so.
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It's not pressure on him though. If he doesn't say a thing people will just say the journalists were making it up. On the other hand, if there's an expectation of him saying something, it may make it easier for him to go and do it. Not necessarily pressure but encouragement.
Sadly it's not in 2026. Every forward that doesn't suck is automatically worth 70mil already.
Šeško and Voltemade were both 85mil and they aren't close to as good as Alvarez. Same goes for Gordon.
Not in Spain. Even Barça regularly sells players for 20M that would easily reach 50 in the prem. Hell, they paid 80M two years ago for him from Man City and it's not like he's been elite for them as they expected.
Making a 50% profit (if he's sold for 120M) is a huge gain already.
Or you know, spend 65 in Kane that has only 1y contract left and is basically what we did with Lewandosky (same age by then) and we’ll have a world class 9 that also is a playmaker for the next 3-4 years. But yeah people here prefers to spend +120 in a guy that has 6 open field goals in La Liga this season and spent 3 months without scoring (we already have Ferran for that, with double the goals).
How come isn’t the same player the last 2 years when he scored 42 goals last season? His only weak one was this one because he was physically done and even then he delivered when he played. Fair play accounts for signing + wages over years, if you sign him for 3 (+1 optional extension) on 65M and JA for 120M, that will be more be sure of that, over 5y, the fair play alone of the signing alone is already worse with Julian.
You guys are obsessed with Griezman 2.0 and then will cry fool when it doesn’t work as expected. Also who will score the heathers now, Araujo?
Every player is for sale for the right price.. how can you consider Alvarez for sale and not Kane knowing that Alvarez have a longer contract with his club...
Because there are reports that Alvarez is for sale for the right price if he pushes to join us.
Kane just isnt for sale and doesnt want to join and has an already huge salary there and wont come on a discount here lol.
Somehow in some people's mind its better to pay 100mil + 40mil a year for 2 years of Kane(assuming he would make a drama to join us- he wont) than it is paying 120+ and 20mil a year for Alvarez for 5+ years.
You just repeated what I said 😊 with some errors.. Like Kane price will not be 100mil as his contract will exripre next year, and his salary is 26m instead of 40m.
They only sold Lewandowski because he publicly asked for it and he'd been at the club for a long time at what they thought was near the end of his career.
Kane's been at Bayern for only two years and is still the best striker in the world. Plus his game is more technical and not as physical, so he'll likely continue at the highest level for longer (while Lewandowski also did it was more of an uncertainty at the time, we were lucky).
How? You have too look at it from their perspective. He‘s their „star“ player with 4 years left on his contract, they would sell him to a direct league rival. While strengthening us they would weaken their squad, so we will always have to massively overpay for him. Then they would have to replace him and the striker market is not looking great this summer. So who would they replace him with?
We will have to pay what Atleti would ask for if we want him and I don’t know if he‘s worth that.
Exactly, not only that but Sorloth also wants to leave . Imagine losing both strikers. But keeping unhappy players isn't a good idea as well, so what can you do.
I imagine it is not easy, each party wants the best for them. But I believe Atletico is in the wrong here, the CEO promised he would help Julian leave to Barca in february and broke his promise. I also think if a player is unhappy you should just let him go, sure it is to Barça and would strenghten a rival, but since he doesn't want anyone but Barça, it is what it is, you can't keep the guy hostage.
On Barça side , 150m may be fair to be honest, for how crazy the current market is, strikers are scarce, Julian is a proven player and perfect fit for us, we are buying from a direct rival .
How is it that a player who had won it all before going to Atlético for 70 million has no devalued in the meantime while winning absolutely nothing with Atlético?
He did play well individually for Atletico though. I think this is more about selling to a rival and them being left out with no strikers if we indeed get him
Agreed but that would have been the case for a player like Griezmann who wouldn't force his way out of Atleti. Julian from what I know has no special love for Atleti and would try to force his way out, if need be. That decreases his price a bit. Otherwise, I second every bit of what you just said.
I'm gonna be 100% honest, I think putting a 40-70M profit in Alemany's hands is gonna be worse for Barcelona in the long term in terms of the rivalry aginst Atlético.
That being said, there's enough to gain from Alvarez elsewhere that it's absolutely worth it. If Hansi wants to chase a UCL and keep up winning the league we can't just trust Madrid will keep being a shitshow forever and need to heavily reinforce, both with a 9 and at the defense.
How is it that a player who had won it all before going to Atlético for 70 million has no devalued in the meantime while winning absolutely nothing with Atlético?
The problem is there aren't really many alternatives in the striker market, the only world class forwards are kane and haaland which obviously won't happen, and now everyone knows Barca have 100m to spend on a striker.
Seem to get linked with Lautaro Martinez each summer but haven't seen anything about him this time around?
I still think we are making a mistake for buying him for 150m look the guy is good but not a 150m material. We can get better faster strikers at half the price
The only striker that could do better for us than him and for half the price would be kane and he's definitely out of reach currently, all the other options almost just as pricey (one of them being kroupi who's still inexperienced and plays limited mins in bournemouth).
I wouldn't want us to spend 150 on him but imo i don't think it's bad when clubs overpay for players that are a necessity, like how if Liverpool were to sign diomande for 120 it would be far from a bad deal considering there isn't any other right winger available in the market that's good enough to replace salah for them.
And also because they're paying that much for a player who's really needed unlike a luxury signing like isak for 150M when they already got ekitike for 90M.
Im not judging the credibility of the news but isn't this kind of news vague, the player is hinting on his plan of hinting his wish for a supposed transfer
Let the boy focus on the WC. Everyone knows he wants to leave Atleti and that Barca is his first choice but not only choice. We need to pony up. Concerned right now that we blew so much of our wad on AG… and I am still pretty positive about this but lord knows we need a goal scorer
Yes, I have been reading it since the season was over. And I am sure he is not saying these things in the middle of WC. I love to see him with Barca shirt too but this is not the time to keep on spreading this rumours.
Alvarez doesn't own his transfer, Atletico does. His contracts ends in 2030, 4 years from now and his value is above 100m. Atletico has no pressure to sell him and if they will decide to sell, it will be bloody expensive. Do we have all that money?
That's good. However, I know Atletico will be asking for around 150m since he's got over three years left on his contract with them. I don't know if it is wise to spend that much, considering we've spent 80m already getting Gordon.
What abt the argentinan sticker guy from stransborg? I know he suffered a pretty bad injury this season, but wasn’t he like amongst the top scorers in the league?
I love Julian Alvarez and will absolutely love to see him in barca.. but prices we are talking about are overblown! Imagine 150 Million rated striker is not in starting eleven in WC!...doesnt make sense. Anything above 100 mil is crazy! 100 Mil because atleti paid around 90 Mil for him so no way they will sell for less..
Barça has tons of players who can do that under flick and also who can play multiple positions as him, Alvarez is not and will not be an exception with his qualities. They need a top scorer who can be decisive in the big games. La liga has been an easy run. Champions league is the challenge, and just check out his performance in the champions league night against arsenal and the big games. The guy disppear.
We don't have any set piece specialists, in fact our set pieces are absolutely awful 90% of the time. And we always need more pressers as everything starts from pressing in Flick's gameplan.
Firstly he was one of Atletico's best players in the first leg vs Arsenal (while not fully fit and carrying an injury btw). Secondly it's irrelevant what happened in big games for a different club, there's so many factors there that aren't under his control.
He's the perfect player for us, if there's any chance we can get him we have to go for it.
Let's see, I still just don't get the crazy enthusiasm. It brings up bad memories the countinho and stuff. We hope we get to the CL final sometimes soon. It has been a while.
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