🤣 They make us laugh more than Barça: Atleti hit back at Real Madrid | OneFootball

Atlético de Madrid responded on Tuesday to Real Madrid’s statement about the offer for Julián Álvarez with a text loaded with irony on its official X account, titled “clarifications regarding the official statement from our neighbors.”

The red-and-white club pushed back against each of the terms used by Madrid and explicitly rejected the tone of Real’s statement.

Atlético denied having thanked them for the offer — “you must have confused politeness with gratitude” — and denied having studied or evaluated any proposal for the Argentine forward. The response went point by point, numbered, without concessions.

Atleti also referred to the video of Pope Francis in which he supposedly expressed his sympathy for Atlético, and ended with a comparison between Madrid and Barcelona: “How could we not get along, if you make us laugh even more than Barça.” Julián Álvarez’s future remains undefined.

In the rest of the statement, Atleti also asked Real to stop “stealing” players from the club’s youth academy.

The deal remains stalled due to the gap between the €150 million offered by Real Madrid and the €500 million release clause set in the player’s contract until 2030. Atlético has no intention of negotiating outside those terms.

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