Atletico Madrid attempt to mock Barcelona with bizarre statements over offer for Julian Alvarez | OneFootball

Atletico Madrid have responded sarcastically on social media to the growing rumours linking Julian Alvarez with a move to FC Barcelona.

Earlier today, reports emerged claiming that the Blaugrana had made an offer worth €100 million fixed fee to sign the Argentine striker from Atleti.

Through unofficial statements via the media, Los Rojiblancos denied receiving any offer, suggesting that the claims were a lie.

Bizarre behaviour

Taking it a notch higher, Atletico Madrid now issued a statement on their official account on X, claiming that they had sent an offer to Barcelona, referencing journalist Fabrizio Romano’s famous phrase “Here we go” with an image of Lamine Yamal in their jersey.

“HERE WE GO! We have sent a fax to @FCBarcelona_es with our transfer offer: 4 tickets for tomorrow’s Bad Bunny concert, a yearly subscription to ABC and a bag of sunflower seeds. We are eagerly awaiting the response to prepare the ‘announce’.”

The bizarre behaviour did not stop there as they made another statement, this time with a picture of Pedri and the following ‘offer’:

“HERE WE GO! For this second offer we’ve had a problem, we’ve run out of tickets for tomorrow’s concert, so we improve the previous proposal with 6 for the one on Sunday.”

Shortly after, a third post emerged, this time with the image of Raphinha and the following caption:

“HERE WE GO! And to complete the 3×1, we’ve gotten all carried away and we’re going to throw the little house out the window: the player arrives on loan for a season and in exchange we loan out Tom Ford and Smith with no option to buy. An offer impossible to refuse.

At the same time, they took to their official Instagram account to make another post, where they uploaded AI-generated images of Lamine, Pedri, and Raphinha in Atletico Madrid colours with the following caption:

“And remember, it took us just five minutes to create this fake post. We live in an era where reality can be altered. Don’t believe everything you see, especially if it’s related to Barça.”

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Not long after, Atletico Madrid made another post on ‘X’, this time trying to take a dig at Barcelona director Deco, saying:

“Finally, we want to take this opportunity to categorically deny that we have made an offer to the sporting director of FC Barcelona to join our scouting team in the Brazilian market.”

Tensions high at Atletico

It seems clear that things are not well at Atletico Madrid as they seemingly did not expect Barcelona to go on the offensive in the pursuit of Alvarez.

Tensions seem to be running high at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano, leading to this bizarre attempt at mockery.

The situation remains unresolved for now. While Alvarez is open to changing clubs and would prioritise a move to Barcelona, Atletico continue to maintain a firm stance: they will not facilitate his departure unless they receive an offer they consider impossible to refuse.