{"id":644175,"date":"2024-08-04T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=644175"},"modified":"2024-08-04T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T17:23:11","slug":"julian-alvarez-agent-negotiating-with-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/08\/04\/julian-alvarez-agent-negotiating-with-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussions Next Week: Premier League &#8216;Star&#8217; to Negotiate Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agent of 24-year-old Argentinian sensation Julian Alvarez will travel to Manchester next week to enter discussions with the club over his future. Alvarez is heavily linked with other European giants such as Atletico Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<h2>Julian Alvarez Agent to Enter Negotiations on Player\u2019s Future<\/h2>\n<h3>Discussions Next Week<\/h3>\n<p>After numerous rumours this summer about speculated transfers away from the Etihad, including long-serving players such as Ederson and Kevin De Bruyne, another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/football\/transfer-news\/julian-alvarez-man-city-transfer-premier-league-222182-20240803\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;star&#8221;<\/a> is heavily linked with a move away. After many European giants have enquired about the possibility of signing Alvarez, including Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, and PSG, his agent will travel to Manchester to enter discussions about his future, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1819991664779522340\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. Manchester City will let Alvarez leave, however only if he is sold for his valued price; they won&#8217;t accept bids in the region of \u20ac40\/50m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/08\/03\/ederson-saudi-move-collapse\/\" target=\"_self\">Sale Of Manchester City\u2019s \u2018Crucial\u2019 Star Falls Through<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c1lvarez has played 67 matches for the Citizens, scoring 20 times. In addition to this, in his first season at the club, he won the treble as well as the 2022 FIFA World Cup with Argentina, where he scored against Australia in the round of 16 and two in the semi-final against Croatia. This made him the youngest player since Pele in 1958 to score two goals in a World Cup semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, \u2018La Ara\u00f1a\u2019 failed to start in any of City\u2019s final four games of last season. He would like to be a more prominent member of a European giant. According to Fabrizio Romano, both PSG and Atletico have called his agent since June, possibly numbering his player\u2019s days in Manchester.<\/p>\n<h3>Citizens&#8217; Stance on Transfers?<\/h3>\n<p>In a recent press conference on their pre-season tour, manager Pep Guardiola <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1820019342316097869\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> about the prospect of interest in Alvarez. He stated &#8220;Atletico? I&#8217;ve nothing to say. He&#8217;s our player, he&#8217;s coming back soon&#8230;I&#8217;ll hug him and congratulate him, and we&#8217;ll start to work together. He is our player. I count on him&#8221;. That being said, the club as previously stated would be happy to let the Argentinian go, as long as the deal is right. So far, no clubs have reached the amount, but both Atletico and PSG are the frontrunners.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/07\/28\/dani-olmo-barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona Confident On Stealing \u2018Incredible\u2019 Manchester City Target<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another two players that have been linked with a move away from the Etihad are De Bruyne and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/08\/03\/ederson-saudi-move-collapse\/\" target=\"_self\">Ederson<\/a>. It was reported by Fabrizio Romano that Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad were looking at the possibility of signing the latter. However, after Al-Ittihad have just signed Predrag Rajkovic from Mallorca for \u00a311 million, Ederson\u2019s deal is off. Guardiola\u2019s side have already rejected a \u00a325 million offer from Al-Nassr earlier this transfer window for him. Moreover, club vice-captain De Bruyne is also linked with a move away, also to Al-Ittihad. Moreover, Dortmund have \u201cmade contact\u201d with representatives from Premier League Champions Manchester City to discuss the conditions for the signing of<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/07\/22\/yan-couto-dortmund\/\" target=\"_self\"> Yan Couto.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agent of 24-year-old Argentinian sensation Julian Alvarez will travel to Manchester next week to enter discussions with the club over his future. Alvarez is heavily linked with other European giants such as Atletico Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain. Julian Alvarez Agent to Enter Negotiations on Player\u2019s Future Discussions Next Week After numerous rumours this summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5071,"featured_media":640445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1722729600","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,17,3,7188],"tags":[8998,100],"class_list":["post-644175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-julian-alvarez","tag-manchester-city"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}