The colchoneros refuse the offer. But maybe Real would need more of a midfielder…

Last week during the election campaign Florentino Perez promised a 150 million market bomb. He had given some clues: “He is a player from a big Champions League club, but not from the Premier League. He is not Olise or even Kane.” Here the newspapers had taken two directions: some had thrown themselves onto the Vitinha track, or alternatively that of Joao Neves, the two Portuguese players from PSG, others had decided that Perez was lying and that the target was Olise. Bayern had intervened in the matter by inviting Casa Blanca to save themselves the trouble of sending an offer considered outrageous.

mystery player

Today the identity of the mysterious footballer was revealed: Julian Alvarez. The name of the Argentinian from Atletico had emerged in the morning and in the afternoon Real Madrid published an official statement on the matter. With Atletico’s response, without getting nervous and citing the good relations between the two clubs, they revealed that they had rejected the offer, inviting Los Blancos to pay the release clause if they really want their striker. The value of the clause? Half a billion euros. More than three times what Madrid offered.

Barça was also there

In all this it must be remembered that Barcelona have been flirting with Julian Alvarez for a long time, for whom they offered 100 million euros with Atletico who was furious and responded piqued by publishing a series of posts on social media with Lamine Yamal, Pedri and Raphinha wearing the red and white shirt.

strange choice

And it must be added that it is difficult to understand the transfer strategy of Florentino Perez, who with Mbappé, Vinicius, Rodrygo and Endrick tries to sign another striker, certainly valid but the sector is overbooked, when in two years he has not yet thought about how to replace Kroos and Modric, with Madrid’s balance sensationally suffering from their absence.



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