‘IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE’
Julián Álvarez has won the World Cup, Copa América (twice), the Copa Libertadores, Big Cup, two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and the Fifa Club World Cup. Just about the only thing he hasn’t won is a Big Sports Day gold medal after France sent Argentina home from Paris after a serious grudge match. At 24, Álvarez’s palmarès (yes, palmarès!) surely makes him a top, top player. And yet, he’s not quite good enough for Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. If City fans had a boo-boy target last season, it was the all-conquering Argentinian who wasn’t quite so all-conquering. He never quite fitted the gordian patterns painted on Guardiola’s wipe-clean tactics board.
