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After the conclusion of the 2026 World Cup, football moves on. It always acts as a \u2018season finale\u2019 for the sport, but the summer transfer window has been raging on in the background nonetheless.<\/strong><\/p>\n Former Manchester City star Julian Alvarez has been touted with a move away from Atletico Madrid this summer. Recently, several teams in the Premier League who are keen to land his signature \u2013 including Arsenal and Liverpool \u2013 have seen their efforts to sign him significantly boosted.<\/p>\n Barcelona were considered top candidates to sign the Argentinian international, but according to SPORT, they are not willing to increase their bid of \u00a385 million. <\/p>\n As such, if the Reds or the Gunners are willing to exceed this valuation, they could land their man. However, they aren\u2019t the only clubs in the race as things stand.<\/p>\n Fellow Premier League giants Chelsea are also amongst the interested parties. Earlier in the month, Football365 reported that the Blues were looking to submit a bid of \u00a3106 million for the player, though we haven\u2019t heard anything on this front since.<\/p>\n As well as this, back in June, AS (via The Standard) stated that Manchester United were also linked with a move for Alvarez and had \u2018begun talks\u2019, though it is unclear how far these actually progressed.<\/p>\n Furthermore, Real Madrid are also long-standing admirers of Alvarez, having seen a \u00a3130 million bid rejected last month (via BBC Sport). Other clubs might not have to pay this much \u2013 it\u2019s highly unlikely that Atletico would want to sell a key player to their bitterest of rivals at any cost.<\/p>\n Curiously, Diario Sport claimed that Alvarez had \u2018ruled out\u2019 a move back to the Premier League a couple of weeks ago. Nevertheless, this hasn\u2019t dissuaded any of his potential suitors in England for the time being.<\/p>\n For a player of Alvarez\u2019s almighty valuation, his stats above may look somewhat meagre. They do not tell the whole story, however. In the Champions League last season, the 26-year-old scored ten goals in 15 Champions League goals, alongside four assists.<\/p>\n This, simply put, is why he is so highly rated at present. A wonderful finisher with excellent movement and an indomitable work rate to match, Alvarez is a complete centre-forward.<\/p>\n Capable of scoring both incisive poacher\u2019s finishes and wonder goals from range, he is also adept from attacking set-pieces. A nippy, strong player who can hold the ball up, there is very little that he cannot do.<\/p>\n As we\u2019ve just mentioned, he is also just 26 years of age. He hasn\u2019t even hit his prime years yet \u2013 the best is still yet to come from this genuine superstar.<\/p>\n He would be a fine asset to any of the four Premier League clubs looking to snap him up, but it remains to be seen if a deal can be struck.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the conclusion of the 2026 World Cup, football moves on. It always acts as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Julian Alvarez 2025\/26 La Liga stats<\/h2>\n
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\n \n Games<\/td>\n Goals<\/td>\n Assists<\/td>\n Y. Cards<\/td>\n R. Cards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n J.Alvarez<\/td>\n 29<\/td>\n 8<\/td>\n 4<\/td>\n 2<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n Julian Alvarez 2026 World Cup stats<\/h2>\n
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\n \n Games<\/td>\n Goals<\/td>\n Assists<\/td>\n Y. Cards<\/td>\n R. Cards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n J.Alvarez<\/td>\n 8<\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n 0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n What would Julian Alvarez bring to Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd or Chelsea?<\/h2>\n