{"id":3824,"date":"2026-09-16T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:46:54","slug":"atletico-plot-peace-with-alvarez-score-20-and-your-e500m-buyout-drops-as-barcelona-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"Atletico plot peace with Alvarez: score 20 and your \u20ac500m buyout drops, as Barcelona circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alvarez&#8217;s desire to leave Atletico Madrid dominated the summer transfer window, with the forward going public in his wish for a transfer. The Argentina international had interest from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballmuse.com\/arsenal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Arsenal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballmuse.com\/barcelona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Barcelona<\/a> with the 26-year-old pushing for a move to the latter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Atletico<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballmuse.com\/news\/atletico-madrid-declare-0-chance-of-selling-julian-alvarez-to-barcelona-amid-fiery-transfer-saga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">insisted Alvarez was not for sale<\/a>, pointing to a \u20ac500m release clause in his contract. The stand-off led to a tense situation and saw Alvarez booed by the Atleti supporters upon his return to the side this season. He has featured only sporadically so far after the summer saga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3>From stand-off to sweetener: Atleti will lower Alvarez release clause next summer if he reaches 20 goals<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to Spanish outlet<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elchiringuitotv\/status\/2100014798217875799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">El Chiringuito<\/a>, Atletico are ready to make Alvarez a proposal in order to ease the internal friction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Atleti president Gil Marin has reportedly promised to reduce Alvarez&#8217;s release clause, provided he performs on the pitch this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The club have set Alvarez a target of 20 goals across all competitions and are prepared to soften their stance on a potential sale next summer, if he achieves the feat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The decision comes as Atletico look to repair relationships between last season&#8217;s leading scorer and the club. Alvarez scored 20 goals last season, and netted 29 in his debut campaign after arriving from Manchester City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">Barcelona<\/a> remain keen to sign Alvarez next summer as the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballmuse.com\/la-liga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">La Liga<\/a> champions look to add the forward to a frontline including Raphinha, Lamine Yamal, Anthony Gordon, and Karim Adeyemi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/atletico-plot-peace-with-alvarez-score-20-and-your-500m-buyout-drops-as-barcelona-circle-43471518\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvarez&#8217;s desire to leave Atletico Madrid dominated the summer transfer window, with the forward going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434715183Fdate2026-09-16.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}