Barcelona’s pursuit of prime attacking goal Julian Alvarez has amounted to a complete lot of nothing thus far, even because the participant seemingly tries to push his approach out of Atletico Madrid.
To some extent, Alvarez’s ploy is working however Atletico Madrid stay determined to not promote their star striker to a direct rival.
Consequently, Barcelona are beginning to have a look at different choices, having already been linked with a bunch of alternate options. However the membership seem to have a transparent plan B in the event that they fail to signal Alvarez this week.
Barcelona’s plan B for Alvarez
As reported by MARCA, Barcelona are actually sure they will be unable to signal Alvarez, with Atletico’s stance remaining unshakeable.
Regardless of the strain created by the participant himself and the response of the Atletico followers, Gil Marin and Mateu Alemany are clear of their place. They’re prepared to promote Alvarez to Arsenal, however to not Barcelona underneath any circumstances.
Crucially, although, Barcelona’s plan B doesn’t contain signing one other striker. Flick and Deco have determined in opposition to bringing in a ahead this summer time until a real, top-level alternative arises, one thing they contemplate extremely unlikely with only a week left within the window.
It seems the sporting division is not going to signal a mediocre participant only for the sake of it, and touchdown an elite striker at this stage is extraordinarily tough, as no membership would promote one among their finest gamers with so little time to discover a alternative.
Flick completely happy together with his choices
A giant issue behind the choice is what Flick has seen from his assault in pre-season and the opening recreation in opposition to Elche.
The German is content material together with his choices, given what number of of his gamers can function by way of the center.
Raphinha excelled as a false 9 in opposition to Elche, whereas new signings Gordon and Adeyemi, although wingers, can each play centrally, as can Dani Olmo.
The children supply additional depth too, with Hamza Abdelkarim having been the highest scorer in pre-season and Jesse Bisiwu additionally exhibiting a watch for purpose.
Ought to issues not work out, Barcelona retain the choice of revisiting the market in January, however for now, Flick is completely happy to stay with what he has.
