Barcelona transfer news: Julian Alvarez update provided after unsavoury scenes at Metropolitano Stadium

Atletico Madrid caput manager Diego Simeone has said that the determination for Julian Alvarez to caput consecutive down the passageway aft Sunday's 2-2 gully with Villarreal was made by the club.

Alvarez said earlier this summertime that helium wants to permission Atletico, and Barcelona person agelong been regarded arsenic the favourites for the Argentina international.

However, elder figures astatine Atletico person insisted connected aggregate occasions successful caller weeks that the guardant volition not beryllium leaving the Red and Whites during the summertime market.

Alvarez was booed by ample sections of the Atletico fans portion warming up against Villarreal, and helium past received a fierce reception upon entering the tract successful the 66th minute.

After the game, which finished 2-2, the Atletico players addressed the crowd, thanking them for the support, but Alvarez was seen heading consecutive down the tunnel.

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Simeone has said that the determination was made by the club.

"People astatine the nine told maine that the nine had decided helium shouldn’t spell adjacent the stands oregon the fans. The nine decided to support him distant and abstracted him truthful that helium could spell to the changing rooms," Simeone told reporters.

"It’s not my spot to springiness advice. I person to absorption connected my job, which is to springiness my each connected the pitch. 

“If we privation to triumph a title, we request to instrumentality together, person strikers and person top-class strikers. We each request to enactment hard connected what’s required.

“I’m not going to reply each of Julian’s questions. I recognize the interest and we tin speech astir what happened successful the match."

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Arsenal person been heavy linked with Alvarez, and it is understood that the Argentine has made it wide that helium wants to articulation the reigning La Liga champions.

However, Alvarez has allegedly not wholly ruled retired a instrumentality to English football pursuing his erstwhile spell astatine Manchester City.

Alvarez's merchandise clause is €500m (£432m), and Atletico suggested earlier this summer that funny parties would person to wage that magnitude to motion him, with nary discounts available.