🚨🔵🔴 BREAKING: Barcelona send first official proposal to Atlético Madrid for Julián Álvarez worth €100m.
No add-ons, no players involved.
Atlético, not happy about the situation over last 24h — but Julián has already asked to leave.
🚨 Anthony Gordon: “I wanted to play for Barcelona since I was 3 years old”.
Here with agent Adam Dugdale and Unique Sports CEO Will Salthouse after the official unveiling.
🔵🔴 Anthony Gordon: “I speak Spanish because as a kid I believed I would play for Barça”.
“I had a physio at Newcastle who was Spanish and we spoke Spanish every day. I told him I wanted to play for Barça one day, that’s why I speak some Spanish”.
🚨 Julián Álvarez has already informed Atléti of his desire to leave with Barcelona as a clear priority.
Barça won’t stop here, planning for more signings after Gordon (done) and after talks for Álvarez (bid not sent yet, but soon).
🎥 https://t.co/5QjFZv8iUs
🗣 Albert Ortega: "People are asking where all this money is coming from for Gordon and Álvarez."
Barcelona have always been a money-generating machine. The problem was never the money. It was compliance with La Liga's financial controls and the salary cap blocking registrations, not the ability to spend.
Barcelona could always structure deals. The wall was always the economic control rules and whether new signings could actually be registered.
This summer that changes. The return to the 1:1 rule changes everything.
Lewandowski's departure. Camp Nou reopening. Sponsorship agreements. VIP suite sales. New commercial deals. Wage bill reductions. Every single one of those moved the needle.
After more than five years of operating with one hand tied behind their back Barcelona are entering this transfer market with real financial power and real room to move.
This isn't luck. This is five years of painful reconstruction finally paying off. 🔵🔴
🗣 Albert Ortega
As we don sign Gordon like this, next na to head straight to Metropolitano collect Alvarez
Go Etihad collect Cherki
Go Stamford Bridge collect Enzo as Pedri backup 😂
Collect Palmer and Estevao too, send them go La Masia make dem learn proper football.
Go Parc des Princes collect Doue and Pacho, press Enrique small weekend money on top 😌
Head straight to Allianz Arena collect Harry Kane, bench am the whole season just to show Bayern president say money stop nonsense😂
We fit branch Old Trafford too sha… to drop off their Volvo
Arab money😂🔥