Atlético Madrid reportedly have the “firm intention” of handing Julián Alvarez a new contract which would make him the club’s highest-paid player to ward off interest from Arsenal and Barcelona.
Alvarez’s position in the Spanish capital is already pretty secure. The World Cup winner is tied down to a contract which still has four years left to run and includes a $574.9 million (£433.9 million, €500 million) release clause. However, Alvarez didn’t exactly wed himself to Atlético when recently answering a question about his future with the deliberately vague response of “Who knows?”
