The rising stress surrounding Julian Alvarez’s future has now sparked a robust response exterior Spain, with former Barcelona ahead and 1998 World Cup winner Christophe Dugarry delivering a scathing evaluation of the striker’s dealing with of his state of affairs.
Talking on RMC SPORT (h/t AS), Dugarry criticised each Alvarez and the individuals advising him, arguing that the Argentine’s resolution to specific his desire to leave Atletico Madrid for Barcelona has made an already difficult state of affairs much more troublesome.
“The participant and his entourage are idiots. How are you going to say ‘I wish to go away the membership’? Is he silly or what?”, he mentioned.
The previous France worldwide’s criticism was directed primarily on the public nature of the state of affairs.
In Dugarry’s view, a participant searching for a transfer ought to strategy such a delicate state of affairs with larger warning, significantly when coping with a membership and followers who might really feel betrayed by a public declaration of intent.
Alvarez ought to have dealt with it in another way
For Dugarry, Alvarez’s mistake was not essentially wanting a brand new problem.
Moderately, the previous striker acknowledged that gamers ought to be capable of pursue a departure after they genuinely want to go away.
His challenge lies in how the Barcelona switch state of affairs has unfolded.
Dugarry pointed to Antoine Griezmann’s earlier expertise for instance of the dangers concerned when a participant’s future turns into a public dispute involving Atlético Madrid.
“Hold quiet, be modest, be sensible about the way you talk.
“Didn’t you see what occurred with Griezmann? Don’t your membership’s administration? Don’t your followers?” he identified.
Dugarry additionally targets Alvarez’s advisers
Dugarry didn’t restrict his criticism to the Argentine ahead. He additionally questioned the function performed by the individuals across the participant, together with his representatives and advisers.
“And what about your entourage? Your agent? All of the individuals round you?
“What’s the purpose of them? What an enormous mistake to go round saying publicly that Barça is your dream,” he mentioned.
Gamers must be allowed to go away, however…
Regardless of his harsh phrases, Dugarry did make an vital level. He doesn’t imagine {that a} participant must be pressured to stay at a membership in opposition to his needs.
As a substitute, he argued that the style wherein a participant pursues a switch can decide whether or not an settlement turns into simpler or more durable to realize.
“The very first thing it’s a must to do while you wish to attain an settlement is to not spit within the face of your followers or your membership,” he concluded.
